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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... centuries , ' we should still be at a loss to value her age would it mean that she was a mere chicken , or that she was getting up in years ? ' On the other hand , if ( declining to state any odious circumstan- tialities , ) she were to ...
... centuries , ' we should still be at a loss to value her age would it mean that she was a mere chicken , or that she was getting up in years ? ' On the other hand , if ( declining to state any odious circumstan- tialities , ) she were to ...
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... century , by comparison with our fore- fathers ! ' Oh , no , my Lord , ' said Johnson , we are quite as strong as our ancestors , and a great deal wiser . ' Yes ; our kick is , at least , as dangerous , and our logic does three times as ...
... century , by comparison with our fore- fathers ! ' Oh , no , my Lord , ' said Johnson , we are quite as strong as our ancestors , and a great deal wiser . ' Yes ; our kick is , at least , as dangerous , and our logic does three times as ...
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... centuries would not traverse ; and it is serrated on its posterior wall with a harrow that perhaps is partly hidden . From the anterior wall of this chasm rise , in vertical directions , two processes ; one perpendicular , and rigid as ...
... centuries would not traverse ; and it is serrated on its posterior wall with a harrow that perhaps is partly hidden . From the anterior wall of this chasm rise , in vertical directions , two processes ; one perpendicular , and rigid as ...
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... century , and an eminent man too , who used to say , that whereas people in general pretended to admire astronomy as being essentially sublime , he for his part looked upon all that sort of thing as a swindle ; and , on the con- trary ...
... century , and an eminent man too , who used to say , that whereas people in general pretended to admire astronomy as being essentially sublime , he for his part looked upon all that sort of thing as a swindle ; and , on the con- trary ...
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... century , who complained of the solar system , would not need to do so any longer . There are anomalies enough to keep him cheerful . There are now even things to alarm us ; for anything in the starry worlds that look sus- picious ...
... century , who complained of the solar system , would not need to do so any longer . There are anomalies enough to keep him cheerful . There are now even things to alarm us ; for anything in the starry worlds that look sus- picious ...
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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.