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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... once were anchored continents and boundless forests . Where the south pole now shuts her frozen gates inhospitably against the intru- sions of flesh , once were probably accumulated the ribs of empires ; man's imperial forehead ...
... once were anchored continents and boundless forests . Where the south pole now shuts her frozen gates inhospitably against the intru- sions of flesh , once were probably accumulated the ribs of empires ; man's imperial forehead ...
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... once came roaring down , in pomp of waters , a regal Ganges , 3 that drained some hyperbolical continent , some Quinbus Flestrin of Asiatic proportions , long since gone to the dogs . All things pass away . Generations wax old as does a ...
... once came roaring down , in pomp of waters , a regal Ganges , 3 that drained some hyperbolical continent , some Quinbus Flestrin of Asiatic proportions , long since gone to the dogs . All things pass away . Generations wax old as does a ...
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... once the condition of the telescope not only refused its permission to hope for , but expressly bade man to despair of . What is it that Lord Rosse has revealed ? Answer : he has revealed more by far AS REVEALED BY LORD ROSSE'S ...
... once the condition of the telescope not only refused its permission to hope for , but expressly bade man to despair of . What is it that Lord Rosse has revealed ? Answer : he has revealed more by far AS REVEALED BY LORD ROSSE'S ...
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... once more let this world be tortured into closer compression , again let the screw be put upon it , and once again it shall shake off the oppression of dis tance as the dew - drops are shaken from a lion's mane . And thus in fact the ...
... once more let this world be tortured into closer compression , again let the screw be put upon it , and once again it shall shake off the oppression of dis tance as the dew - drops are shaken from a lion's mane . And thus in fact the ...
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... once that it was a motion in the object contemplated , not in the subject contemplating . Or , reversely , if it were safe to assume as a universal law , that no motion was pos- sible in the starry heavens , then every change of ...
... once that it was a motion in the object contemplated , not in the subject contemplating . Or , reversely , if it were safe to assume as a universal law , that no motion was pos- sible in the starry heavens , then every change of ...
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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.