Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers: System of the heavens as revealed by Lord Rosse's telescopes. Modern superstition. Coleridge and opium-eating. Temperance movement. On war. The last days of Immanuel KantTicknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853 |
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... believe it was myself , ] published a paper from the German of Kant , on a very interesting question , viz . , the age of our own little Earth . Those who have never seen that paper , a class of unfortunate people whom I suspect to form ...
... believe it was myself , ] published a paper from the German of Kant , on a very interesting question , viz . , the age of our own little Earth . Those who have never seen that paper , a class of unfortunate people whom I suspect to form ...
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... believe , or some forest lawn ; and the opening words were , Come , and I will show you what is beautiful ! ' Well , and what beside ? There is nothing beside ; oh , disappointed and therefore enraged reader ; positively this is the sum ...
... believe , or some forest lawn ; and the opening words were , Come , and I will show you what is beautiful ! ' Well , and what beside ? There is nothing beside ; oh , disappointed and therefore enraged reader ; positively this is the sum ...
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... believe , finished ; and the only fact connected with its history that was painful , as embodying and recording that Vandal alienation from science , literature , and all their interests , which has ever marked our too haughty and ...
... believe , finished ; and the only fact connected with its history that was painful , as embodying and recording that Vandal alienation from science , literature , and all their interests , which has ever marked our too haughty and ...
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... majesty of column riding downwards from the Himalaya , I believe that , since Sir Alex- ander Burnes's measurements , the Indus ranks foremost by a long chalk . VOL II . NOTE 4. Page 8 . Kant applied this illustration to.
... majesty of column riding downwards from the Himalaya , I believe that , since Sir Alex- ander Burnes's measurements , the Indus ranks foremost by a long chalk . VOL II . NOTE 4. Page 8 . Kant applied this illustration to.
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... believe , and would perceive a pure childlike beauty in believing , that the bird was thus rendering a homage of deep thankfulness to the universal Father , who watches for the safety of spar- rows , and sends his rain upon the just and ...
... believe , and would perceive a pure childlike beauty in believing , that the bird was thus rendering a homage of deep thankfulness to the universal Father , who watches for the safety of spar- rows , and sends his rain upon the just and ...
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