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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... Italian skies to the cold frosty atmospheres of St. Petersburg and Glasgow , the stars are conscious of being watched everywhere ; and if all astronomers do not publish their observations , all use them in their speculations . New and ...
... Italian skies to the cold frosty atmospheres of St. Petersburg and Glasgow , the stars are conscious of being watched everywhere ; and if all astronomers do not publish their observations , all use them in their speculations . New and ...
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... Italian named Morandi , was a brave man ; any fate appeared better than that which awaited him from an enemy so malignant . He set fire to the powder magazine ; the vessel blew up ; Morandi per- ished in the Nile ; and all of less nerve ...
... Italian named Morandi , was a brave man ; any fate appeared better than that which awaited him from an enemy so malignant . He set fire to the powder magazine ; the vessel blew up ; Morandi per- ished in the Nile ; and all of less nerve ...
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... Italian territory . Considered as a dependency of France , he felt certain that Italy was lost ; and Napoleon was inconsolable . But what possible con- nection , it was asked , can exist between this vessel on the Nile and a remote ...
... Italian territory . Considered as a dependency of France , he felt certain that Italy was lost ; and Napoleon was inconsolable . But what possible con- nection , it was asked , can exist between this vessel on the Nile and a remote ...
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... Italy . The same omen announced to Lord Lindsay's Arab attendants in the desert the approach of some disaster , which partially happened in the morning . And a Highlander of the 42d Regiment , in his printed memoirs , notices the same ...
... Italy . The same omen announced to Lord Lindsay's Arab attendants in the desert the approach of some disaster , which partially happened in the morning . And a Highlander of the 42d Regiment , in his printed memoirs , notices the same ...
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Page 145 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave. Await alike the' inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 95 - A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
Page 152 - My shaping spirit of Imagination. For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man — This was my sole resource, my only plan : Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.
Page 209 - God's most dreaded instrument In working out a pure intent Is man arrayed for mutual slaughter, Yea, Carnage is his daughter!
Page 20 - Of mortal change on earth. As when a flock Of ravenous fowl, though many a league remote, Against the day of battle, to a field, Where armies lie...
Page 161 - The most remarkable instance of a combined movement in society which history, perhaps, will be summoned to notice, is that which, in our day, has applied itself to the abatement of intemperance. Two vast movements are hurrying into action by velocities continually accelerated, — the great revolutionary movement from political causes concurring with the great physical movement...
Page 42 - Angel, I will go no farther. For the spirit of man aches with this infinity. Insufferable is the glory of God. Let me lie down in the grave from the persecutions of the infinite ; for end, I see, there is none.
Page 41 - ... by spans — that seemed ghostly from infinitude. Without measure were the architraves, past number were the archways, beyond memory the gates. Within were stairs that scaled the eternities below ! Above was below, below was above, to the man stripped of gravitating body ; depth was swallowed up in height insurmountable, height was swallowed up in depth unfathomable. Suddenly, as thus they rode from infinite to infinite, suddenly, as thus they tilted over...
Page 79 - ... en toucher aucun. Tout au milieu de ce bel exercice, je m'avisai de m'en faire une espèce de pronostic pour calmer mon inquiétude. Je me dis : Je m'en vais jeter cette pierre contre l'arbre qui est vis-à-vis de moi; si je le touche, signe de salut ; si je le manque, signe de damnation.
Page 40 - God called up from dreams a man into the vestibule of heaven, saying, — "Come thou hither, and see the glory of my house." And to the servants that stood around his throne he said, — "Take him, and undress him from his robes of flesh : cleanse his vision, and put a new breath into his nostrils : only touch not with any change his human heart — the heart that weeps and trembles.