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... Light Science for Leisure Hours . — March . — Mental Wear and Tear . - Popular Science . - April . — Huxley's Anatomy of Vertebrated Animals . Littré's Médecine et Médecins . - May . - Influences of Violet Light . — Origin of the ...
... Light Science for Leisure Hours . — March . — Mental Wear and Tear . - Popular Science . - April . — Huxley's Anatomy of Vertebrated Animals . Littré's Médecine et Médecins . - May . - Influences of Violet Light . — Origin of the ...
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... light still shining through ; A maid of all work , whether coarse or fine , A servant who made service seem divine ! Through her each room was fair to look upon , The mirrors glistened and the brasses shone , The very knocker on the ...
... light still shining through ; A maid of all work , whether coarse or fine , A servant who made service seem divine ! Through her each room was fair to look upon , The mirrors glistened and the brasses shone , The very knocker on the ...
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... light that came aslant the hill- side . While he thus stood , he felt a friendly hand laid upon his shoulder , and looking up , there was the minister of the village , the old friend of Sep- timius , to whose advice and aid it was owing ...
... light that came aslant the hill- side . While he thus stood , he felt a friendly hand laid upon his shoulder , and looking up , there was the minister of the village , the old friend of Sep- timius , to whose advice and aid it was owing ...
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... light by himself after long lying in dusty closets ; works of good and learned divines , whose wisdom he had happened , by help of the Devil , to turn to mischief , reading them by the light of hell - fire . For , indeed , Septimius had ...
... light by himself after long lying in dusty closets ; works of good and learned divines , whose wisdom he had happened , by help of the Devil , to turn to mischief , reading them by the light of hell - fire . For , indeed , Septimius had ...
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... light , contemptuous look of defiance at Sep- timius ; the drums rattling out in full beat , and the troops marched on . " What impertinence ! " said Rose , whose indignant color made her look pretty enough almost to excuse the offence ...
... light , contemptuous look of defiance at Sep- timius ; the drums rattling out in full beat , and the troops marched on . " What impertinence ! " said Rose , whose indignant color made her look pretty enough almost to excuse the offence ...
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Page 171 - For Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme her every rune, Whether she work in land or sea, Or hide underground her alchemy. Thou canst not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy paddle in the lake, But it carves the bow of beauty there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake.
Page 192 - Resolved therefore, That the General Assembly of this Colony have the only and sole exclusive right and power to lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants of this Colony, and that every attempt to vest such power in any person or persons whatsoever other than the General Assembly aforesaid has a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom.
Page 482 - Yet went she not, as not with such discourse Delighted, or not capable her ear Of what was high...
Page 225 - Dont waste your time at family funerals grieving for your relatives: attend to life, not to death: there are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it, and better.
Page 30 - I had the good fortune to become acquainted very early with some characters of very high standing, and to feel the incessant wish that I could ever become what they were.
Page 515 - Majesty will think we have reason to expect, when he reflects that he is no more than the chief officer of the people, appointed by the laws, and circumscribed with definite powers, to assist in working the great machine of government erected for their use and consequently subject to their superintendence.
Page 184 - Columbia, laborer, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil...
Page 26 - Dr. William Small of Scotland, was then professor of Mathematics, a man profound in most of the useful branches of science, with a happy talent of communication, correct and gentlemanly manners, and an enlarged and liberal mind. He, most happily for me, became soon attached to me, and made me his daily companion when not engaged in the school ; and from his conversation I got my first views of the expansion of science, and of the system of things in which we are placed.
Page 235 - Fall, as the crest of some slow-arching wave, Heard in dead night along that tableshore, Drops flat, and after the great waters break Whitening for half a league, and thin themselves, Far over sands marbled with moon and cloud, From less and less to nothing...
Page 517 - The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail. No longer persevere in sacrificing the rights of one part of the empire to the inordinate desires of another; but deal out to all equal and impartial right.