The Young Gentleman's Book: Containing a Series of Choice Readings in Popular Science and Natural History,together with Retrospective Essays,conversations,literary Reminiscences,etc1834 |
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... plant , of which he does not so much as know the name ; observes an animal , of which in its nature and habits he is as ignorant as a native of Otaheite . Amid the ' inexhausti- ble stores of nature ' he is insensible to the harmony ...
... plant , of which he does not so much as know the name ; observes an animal , of which in its nature and habits he is as ignorant as a native of Otaheite . Amid the ' inexhausti- ble stores of nature ' he is insensible to the harmony ...
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... plants , and all kinds of terrestrial productions ; it had then been inundated by the sea , which has since retired from it , and left it to be occupied by its own proper inhabitants . The changes which have taken place in the ...
... plants , and all kinds of terrestrial productions ; it had then been inundated by the sea , which has since retired from it , and left it to be occupied by its own proper inhabitants . The changes which have taken place in the ...
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... plants similar to those which now exist in the hottest part of the world ; and the sub- marine rocks or shores of these new formations of land became covered with aquatic vegetables , on which various species of shell fish and common ...
... plants similar to those which now exist in the hottest part of the world ; and the sub- marine rocks or shores of these new formations of land became covered with aquatic vegetables , on which various species of shell fish and common ...
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... plant a better tree than the vine . On every spot of ground or of rock there is a vine ; against every house , against every wall , is a vine ; every garden is but a little arcade of ar- bours , formed by vines ; every stick , every ...
... plant a better tree than the vine . On every spot of ground or of rock there is a vine ; against every house , against every wall , is a vine ; every garden is but a little arcade of ar- bours , formed by vines ; every stick , every ...
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... plants , which are usually more or less incrusted with marble . There is , I believe , no place in the world where there is a more striking example of the opposition or contrast of the laws of animate and inanimate nature , of the ...
... plants , which are usually more or less incrusted with marble . There is , I believe , no place in the world where there is a more striking example of the opposition or contrast of the laws of animate and inanimate nature , of the ...
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Page 306 - THOU art, O God, the life and light Of all this wondrous world we see ; Its glow by day, its smile by night, Are but reflections caught from Thee : Where'er we turn, Thy glories shine, And all things fair and bright are Thine.
Page 292 - By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter ; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of GOD, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season...
Page 286 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; And when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me ; Because I delivered the poor that cried, And the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that, was ready to perish came upon me: And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 203 - ... the calm. Not a pastoral song has a pleasanter tune than ye speak to my heart, little wildings of June : of old ruinous castles ye tell, where I thought it delightful your beauties to find, when the magic of Nature first breathed on my mind, and your blossoms were part of her spell.
Page 441 - I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together — I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion.
Page 308 - Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid; Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Page 308 - Vainly we offer each ample oblation, Vainly with gifts would His favour secure ; Richer by far is the heart's adoration, Dearer to God are the prayers of the poor.
Page 294 - O'er ocean's dark expanse To hail the Pleiades, or catch The full moon's earliest glance, That brings into the homesick mind All we have loved and left behind. Night is the time for care : Brooding on hours misspent, To see the spectre of Despair Come to our lonely tent ; Like Brutus, midst his slumbering host...
Page 295 - And commune there alone with God. Night is the time for death ; When all around is peace, Calmly to yield the weary breath, From sin and suffering cease, Think of heaven's bliss, and give the sign To parting friends ; — such death be mine.
Page 306 - When youthful spring around us breathes, Thy spirit warms her fragrant sigh ; And every flower the summer wreathes Is born beneath that kindling eye. Where'er we turn, thy glories shine, And all things fair and bright are thine.