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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... Kant , on a very interesting question , viz . , the age of our own little Earth . Those who have never seen that ... Kant's purpose was , not to ascertain how many years the Earth had lived : a million of years , more or less , made ...
... Kant , on a very interesting question , viz . , the age of our own little Earth . Those who have never seen that ... Kant's purpose was , not to ascertain how many years the Earth had lived : a million of years , more or less , made ...
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Thomas De Quincey. " of evolution , which Kant was aware of , and which will always find toleration , even where they ... Kant's very problem explodes , bursts , as poison in Venetian wine - glass of old shivered the glass into fragments ...
Thomas De Quincey. " of evolution , which Kant was aware of , and which will always find toleration , even where they ... Kant's very problem explodes , bursts , as poison in Venetian wine - glass of old shivered the glass into fragments ...
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... Kant's life and domestic habits , drawn from the authentic records of his friends and pupils . It is true , that , without any illiberality on the part of the public in this country , the works of Kant are not regarded with the same ...
... Kant's life and domestic habits , drawn from the authentic records of his friends and pupils . It is true , that , without any illiberality on the part of the public in this country , the works of Kant are not regarded with the same ...
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... Kant never spoke of her to the end of his life without the utmost tender- ness , and acknowledgment of his great ... Kant's life . But his was a life remarkable not so much for its incidents , as for the purity and philosophic ...
... Kant never spoke of her to the end of his life without the utmost tender- ness , and acknowledgment of his great ... Kant's life . But his was a life remarkable not so much for its incidents , as for the purity and philosophic ...
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... Kant's but considered the day on which he was to dine with him as a day of pleasure . Without giving himself the air of an in- structor , Kant really was so in the very highest degree . The whole entertainment was seasoned with the ...
... Kant's but considered the day on which he was to dine with him as a day of pleasure . Without giving himself the air of an in- structor , Kant really was so in the very highest degree . The whole entertainment was seasoned with the ...
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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 184 - Those shocks of passion to prepare That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair.
Page 42 - ... insurmountable, height was swallowed up in depth unfathomable. Suddenly, as thus they rode from infinite to infinite, suddenly, as thus they tilted over abysmal worlds, a mighty cry arose that systems more mysterious, that worlds more billowy, other heights and other depths, were coming, were nearing, were at hand.
Page 151 - 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 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 in...
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 20 - Where armies lie encamp'd, come flying, lured With scent of living carcasses design'd For death, the following day, in bloody fight : So scented the grim feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far.
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 hia vision, and put a new breath into his nostrils : only touch not with any change his human heart — the heart that weeps and trembles.
Page 40 - And to the servants that stood around his throne he said, — "Take him, and undress him from his robes of flesh : cleanse hia vision, and put a new breath into his nostrils : only touch not with any change his human heart — the heart that weeps and trembles." It was done ; and, with a mighty angel for his guide, the man stood ready for his infinite voyage ; and from the terraces of heaven, without sound or farewell, at once they wheeled away into endless space. Sometimes with the solemn flight...
Page 41 - With, in were stairs that scaled the eternities above, that descended to 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.