The Dublin University Magazine, Volume 89William Curry, Jun., and Company, 1877 |
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... light as to render it highly esteemed by all persons of average intelligence and education . With convincing power he insists , whenever he can get an opportunity , on the value of scientific study as a discipline of the mind , and in ...
... light as to render it highly esteemed by all persons of average intelligence and education . With convincing power he insists , whenever he can get an opportunity , on the value of scientific study as a discipline of the mind , and in ...
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... light , and the formation of what he calls " actinic clouds , " as visible results of the decomposition . In their incipient and most highly attenuated state , these clouds , no matter what might be the vapour from which they were ...
... light , and the formation of what he calls " actinic clouds , " as visible results of the decomposition . In their incipient and most highly attenuated state , these clouds , no matter what might be the vapour from which they were ...
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... light . In addition to the works already mentioned , Professor Tyndall has published , " Heat , a Mode of Motion ; " " Sound ; " " Lessons in Electri- city ; " Notes of a Course of Nine Lectures on Light ; " and " Notes of a Course of ...
... light . In addition to the works already mentioned , Professor Tyndall has published , " Heat , a Mode of Motion ; " " Sound ; " " Lessons in Electri- city ; " Notes of a Course of Nine Lectures on Light ; " and " Notes of a Course of ...
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... light And the life of the spirit's breath . Read me the tale of the Saviour's tears By the grave where Lazarus slept , For ' tis sweet to a sinner's heart to know That the sinless one hath wept . Read of the Vine whose branches we are ...
... light And the life of the spirit's breath . Read me the tale of the Saviour's tears By the grave where Lazarus slept , For ' tis sweet to a sinner's heart to know That the sinless one hath wept . Read of the Vine whose branches we are ...
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... light . I think he really meant it . And then we got into the same carriage , and he asked me all about W— , and where I lived , and if it was a pleasant place ; and I told him all about you , and about the cathedral , and about the ...
... light . I think he really meant it . And then we got into the same carriage , and he asked me all about W— , and where I lived , and if it was a pleasant place ; and I told him all about you , and about the cathedral , and about the ...
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Page 772 - 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 613 - 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 hushed deep the yellow beam he throws, Gilds the green wave, that trembles as it glows.
Page 102 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Page 171 - And when this song is sung and past, My lute, be still, for I have done. As to be heard where ear is none, As lead to grave in marble stone, My Song may pierce her heart as soon. Should we then sigh, or sing, or moan? No, no, my lute, for I have done.
Page 775 - 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 775 - 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 560 - 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 178 - The old man told him that he worshipped the fire only, and acknowledged no other god. At which answer Abraham grew so zealously angry, that he thrust the old man out of his tent, and exposed him to all the evils of the night, and an unguarded condition. When the old man was gone, God called to Abraham, and asked him where the stranger was : he replied, I thrust him away because he did not worship thee.
Page 772 - The words bard and inspiration, which seem so cold and affected when applied to other modern writers, have a perfect propriety when applied to him. He was not an author, but a bard. His poetry seems not to have been an art, but an inspiration.
Page 178 - When Abraham sat at his tent door, according to his custom, waiting to entertain strangers, he espied an old man, stooping and leaning on his staff, weary with age and travel, coming towards him, who was an hundred years of age.