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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... possible in your grief , whether the record indicated a premature death , that he had been cut off , in fact , whilst just stepping into life , or had kicked the bucket when full of honors , and been followed to the grave by a train of ...
... possible in your grief , whether the record indicated a premature death , that he had been cut off , in fact , whilst just stepping into life , or had kicked the bucket when full of honors , and been followed to the grave by a train of ...
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... possible positions of an object is it a real proximity that we see between two stars , or simply an apparent proximity from lying in the same visual line , though in far other depths of space ? As regards the first dilemma , we may ...
... possible positions of an object is it a real proximity that we see between two stars , or simply an apparent proximity from lying in the same visual line , though in far other depths of space ? As regards the first dilemma , we may ...
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... possible for any man to report a passage of this length without greatly dis- turbing 12 the texture of the composition : by altering , one makes it partly one's own ; but it is right to men- tion , that the sublime turn at the end ...
... possible for any man to report a passage of this length without greatly dis- turbing 12 the texture of the composition : by altering , one makes it partly one's own ; but it is right to men- tion , that the sublime turn at the end ...
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... possible con- nection , it was asked , can exist between this vessel on the Nile and a remote peninsula of Southern Europe ? ' No matter , ' replied Napoleon ; ' my presentiments never deceive , me . You will see that all is ruined . I ...
... possible con- nection , it was asked , can exist between this vessel on the Nile and a remote peninsula of Southern Europe ? ' No matter , ' replied Napoleon ; ' my presentiments never deceive , me . You will see that all is ruined . I ...
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... possible counter - issues through one generation at the least . But the capital argument against such doctrine is to be found in the New Tes- tament . Strange that Milton should overlook , and VOL . II . 6 - - --- strange that moralists ...
... possible counter - issues through one generation at the least . But the capital argument against such doctrine is to be found in the New Tes- tament . Strange that Milton should overlook , and VOL . II . 6 - - --- strange that moralists ...
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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.