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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... effect , we are but exe- cuting the nice manœuvre of a start ; and that the small matter of six thousand years , by which we may have advanced our own position beyond some of our planetary rivals , is but the outstretched neck of an ...
... effect , we are but exe- cuting the nice manœuvre of a start ; and that the small matter of six thousand years , by which we may have advanced our own position beyond some of our planetary rivals , is but the outstretched neck of an ...
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... effects of rhetoric , he might reply : He has accomplished that which once the condition of the telescope not only refused its permission to hope for , but expressly bade man to despair of . What is it that Lord Rosse has revealed ...
... effects of rhetoric , he might reply : He has accomplished that which once the condition of the telescope not only refused its permission to hope for , but expressly bade man to despair of . What is it that Lord Rosse has revealed ...
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... effect into the heart of a section so ancient in our mathematical physics ? But the reader is to consider , that the ruins made by Lord Rosse , are in sidereal astronomy , which is almost wholly a growth of modern times ; and the ...
... effect into the heart of a section so ancient in our mathematical physics ? But the reader is to consider , that the ruins made by Lord Rosse , are in sidereal astronomy , which is almost wholly a growth of modern times ; and the ...
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... effect shall be defeated ; by forcing into far closer neighborhood the stars which compose this world , again it shall gleam out brighter when at 2 x than when at x . At this point of com- pression , let the great moulding power a ...
... effect shall be defeated ; by forcing into far closer neighborhood the stars which compose this world , again it shall gleam out brighter when at 2 x than when at x . At this point of com- pression , let the great moulding power a ...
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... effect , an illustration of the same law , is produced equally , whether you take four worlds , all of the same magnitude , and plunge them simultane- ously into four different abysses , sinking by graduated distances one below another ...
... effect , an illustration of the same law , is produced equally , whether you take four worlds , all of the same magnitude , and plunge them simultane- ously into four different abysses , sinking by graduated distances one below another ...
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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.
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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.