The Young Gentleman's Book: Containing a Series of Choice Readings in Popular Science and Natural History,together with Retrospective Essays,conversations,literary Reminiscences,etc1834 |
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... possesses nothing of the knowledge which the forester and shepherd have gathered for themselves . His observation ... possess an extensive knowledge of its phenomena and laws . The education of the savage is hardly controllable by the ...
... possesses nothing of the knowledge which the forester and shepherd have gathered for themselves . His observation ... possess an extensive knowledge of its phenomena and laws . The education of the savage is hardly controllable by the ...
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... possessed of sentient vitality : any one of its numerous de- partments is sufficient to occupy a whole life . Botany re- fers to the vegetable productions of the globe . For the student desirous of obtaining some general information re ...
... possessed of sentient vitality : any one of its numerous de- partments is sufficient to occupy a whole life . Botany re- fers to the vegetable productions of the globe . For the student desirous of obtaining some general information re ...
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... possesses the double attraction of the improvements of agriculture , and the irregularity of nature in all her majesty . The bold outline of mountain extending from Bere Island along the borders of the county of Kerry towards the north ...
... possesses the double attraction of the improvements of agriculture , and the irregularity of nature in all her majesty . The bold outline of mountain extending from Bere Island along the borders of the county of Kerry towards the north ...
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... possesses the same peculiar characters of grandeur in the precipitous rush of its awful and overpowering waters , and of beauty in the tints of its streams and foam , and in the forms of the rocks over which it falls , and the cliffs ...
... possesses the same peculiar characters of grandeur in the precipitous rush of its awful and overpowering waters , and of beauty in the tints of its streams and foam , and in the forms of the rocks over which it falls , and the cliffs ...
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... possessed a much higher temperature . I have likewise often been led , from the remarkable phenomena surrounding me in that spot , to compare the works of man with those of nature . The baths , erected there nearly twenty centuries ago ...
... possessed a much higher temperature . I have likewise often been led , from the remarkable phenomena surrounding me in that spot , to compare the works of man with those of nature . The baths , erected there nearly twenty centuries ago ...
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Страница 306 - THOU art, O God, the life and light Of all this wondrous world we see ; Its glow by day, its smile by night, Are but reflections caught from Thee : Where'er we turn, Thy glories shine, And all things fair and bright are Thine.
Страница 292 - By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter ; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of GOD, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season...
Страница 286 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; And when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me ; Because I delivered the poor that cried, And the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that, was ready to perish came upon me: And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Страница 203 - ... the calm. Not a pastoral song has a pleasanter tune than ye speak to my heart, little wildings of June : of old ruinous castles ye tell, where I thought it delightful your beauties to find, when the magic of Nature first breathed on my mind, and your blossoms were part of her spell.
Страница 441 - I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together — I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion.
Страница 308 - Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid; Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Страница 308 - Vainly we offer each ample oblation, Vainly with gifts would His favour secure ; Richer by far is the heart's adoration, Dearer to God are the prayers of the poor.
Страница 294 - O'er ocean's dark expanse To hail the Pleiades, or catch The full moon's earliest glance, That brings into the homesick mind All we have loved and left behind. Night is the time for care : Brooding on hours misspent, To see the spectre of Despair Come to our lonely tent ; Like Brutus, midst his slumbering host...
Страница 295 - And commune there alone with God. Night is the time for death ; When all around is peace, Calmly to yield the weary breath, From sin and suffering cease, Think of heaven's bliss, and give the sign To parting friends ; — such death be mine.
Страница 306 - When youthful spring around us breathes, Thy spirit warms her fragrant sigh ; And every flower the summer wreathes Is born beneath that kindling eye. Where'er we turn, thy glories shine, And all things fair and bright are thine.