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... heard of Tyndall from the scientific men of Berlin , he invited him to give one of the Friday evening lectures at the Institution . The circumstance is thus related in the work from which we have just quoted , p . 126 : - " In December ...
... heard of Tyndall from the scientific men of Berlin , he invited him to give one of the Friday evening lectures at the Institution . The circumstance is thus related in the work from which we have just quoted , p . 126 : - " In December ...
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... heard another train coming in , and presently the refreshment room got very full , and I began to feel just a little wee bit lonely among such a crowd of strangers , when a gentleman came in , and he looked so very nice , and so very ...
... heard another train coming in , and presently the refreshment room got very full , and I began to feel just a little wee bit lonely among such a crowd of strangers , when a gentleman came in , and he looked so very nice , and so very ...
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... heard of him as he ' and ' him . ' ' • " His name , " cried Rachel , visibly brightening , " is Vaughan , and I think his Christian name is Henry , but I am not quite sure . He looks very like a Harry . " " Vaughan ! -Henry Vaughan ...
... heard of him as he ' and ' him . ' ' • " His name , " cried Rachel , visibly brightening , " is Vaughan , and I think his Christian name is Henry , but I am not quite sure . He looks very like a Harry . " " Vaughan ! -Henry Vaughan ...
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... heard one word of it - and then a few words were sufficient to let him know that she had heard of the little adventure which had led to the acquaintance between Rachel and himself , and the young fellow had such a frank winning way with ...
... heard one word of it - and then a few words were sufficient to let him know that she had heard of the little adventure which had led to the acquaintance between Rachel and himself , and the young fellow had such a frank winning way with ...
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... heard called " simple division , " that is parted straight down the centre of his head , and it was rather given to fall over his low broad forehead . I am not by any means sure that it was the most becoming style of hair dressing he ...
... heard called " simple division , " that is parted straight down the centre of his head , and it was rather given to fall over his low broad forehead . I am not by any means sure that it was the most becoming style of hair dressing he ...
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Page 736 - Full fathom five thy father lies, Of his bones are coral made : Those are pearls that were his eyes, Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea change, Into something rich and strange.
Page 596 - Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and the more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.
Page 622 - What his mind could supply at call, or gather in one excursion was all that he sought, and all that he gave.
Page 741 - No pity, no release, no respite ! Oh ! That thou wouldst make mine Enemy my judge, Even where he hangs, seared by my long revenge, On Caucasus ! He would not doom me thus. • Gentle and just and dreadless, is he not The Monarch of the World ? What then art thou ?— • No refuge ! no appeal ! — • Sink with me then ! We two will sink on the wide waves of ruin, Even as a vulture and a snake outspent Drop, twisted in inextricable fight, Into a shoreless sea.
Page 739 - Throughout this varied and eternal world Soul is the only element: the block That for uncounted ages has remained The moveless pillar of a mountain's weight Is active, living spirit. Every grain Is sentient both in unity and part, And the minutest atom comprehends A world of loves and hatreds...
Page 739 - Hold thou the good : define it well : For fear divine Philosophy Should push beyond her mark, and be Procuress to the Lords of Hell.
Page 527 - Accurate and minute measurement seems to the nonscientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results.
Page 579 - Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun: Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light! O'er the hush'd deep the yellow beam he throws Gilds the green wave, that trembles as it glows.
Page 215 - ... movemur enim nescio quo pacto locis ipsis, in quibus eorum quos diligimus aut admiramur adsunt vestigia.
Page 740 - Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance >° Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her with his length; These are the spells by which to reassume ij An empire o'er the disentangled doom.