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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... natural , ( though , strictly speaking , not quite correct , ) to scatter abroad malicious insinuations , as though our excellent little mamma had begun to wear false hair , or had lost some of her front teeth . But all this , we men of ...
... natural , ( though , strictly speaking , not quite correct , ) to scatter abroad malicious insinuations , as though our excellent little mamma had begun to wear false hair , or had lost some of her front teeth . But all this , we men of ...
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... natural sense of feminine grace , you might call a romp ; but not a hoyden , observe ; no horse - play ; oh , no , nothing of that sort . And these people fancy that earthquakes , volcanoes , and all such little escapades will be over ...
... natural sense of feminine grace , you might call a romp ; but not a hoyden , observe ; no horse - play ; oh , no , nothing of that sort . And these people fancy that earthquakes , volcanoes , and all such little escapades will be over ...
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... natural function for expanding on an illimitable sensorium , the illimitable growths of space . Man , coming to the ... nature of our debt to Lord Rosse as being the philosopher who has most pushed back the frontiers of our conquests ...
... natural function for expanding on an illimitable sensorium , the illimitable growths of space . Man , coming to the ... nature of our debt to Lord Rosse as being the philosopher who has most pushed back the frontiers of our conquests ...
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... observe with special attention a class of remarkable phenomena in the starry world hitherto unstudied , viz .: milky spots in various stages . of diffusion . The nature of these appearances soon : 22 SYSTEM OF THE HEAVENS.
... observe with special attention a class of remarkable phenomena in the starry world hitherto unstudied , viz .: milky spots in various stages . of diffusion . The nature of these appearances soon : 22 SYSTEM OF THE HEAVENS.
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... nature . The whitish gleam was the mask conferred by the enormity of their remotion . This being so , it might have been supposed that , as was the faintness of these cloudy spots or nebulæ , such was the distance . But that did not ...
... nature . The whitish gleam was the mask conferred by the enormity of their remotion . This being so , it might have been supposed that , as was the faintness of these cloudy spots or nebulæ , such was the distance . But that did not ...
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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.