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... mind more pro- foundly innate than another , and one sentiment of the heart more affectionately cherished , it is the thought that penetrates into the future , and the sentiment that scans its glories . The Past , and its hoary ...
... mind more pro- foundly innate than another , and one sentiment of the heart more affectionately cherished , it is the thought that penetrates into the future , and the sentiment that scans its glories . The Past , and its hoary ...
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... mind recoils from a sentiment so absurd and so incompatible with every idea which we can form of the economy of wisdom and of power which is exhibited around us . It is a sentiment , indeed , which if the astronomical mind could give it ...
... mind recoils from a sentiment so absurd and so incompatible with every idea which we can form of the economy of wisdom and of power which is exhibited around us . It is a sentiment , indeed , which if the astronomical mind could give it ...
Side 10
... mind , —a mind without faith and without hope ; but to conceive a whole universe of moving and revolving worlds in such a category , indicates , in our apprehension , a mind dead to feeling and shorn of reason . We have thought it ...
... mind , —a mind without faith and without hope ; but to conceive a whole universe of moving and revolving worlds in such a category , indicates , in our apprehension , a mind dead to feeling and shorn of reason . We have thought it ...
Side 11
... mind of the inspired writer , may be within certain limits ascertained . He must either have been ignorant of astronomy , or inspired with a knowledge of it . If ignorant like the vulgar around him , he must have regarded the stars as ...
... mind of the inspired writer , may be within certain limits ascertained . He must either have been ignorant of astronomy , or inspired with a knowledge of it . If ignorant like the vulgar around him , he must have regarded the stars as ...
Side 13
... minds when the telescope revealed to them an innumerable multitude of worlds besides the one we inhabit , was this ... mind and body ; and to all animals the requisites of animal existence and animal enjoyment . And upon this Chalmers ...
... minds when the telescope revealed to them an innumerable multitude of worlds besides the one we inhabit , was this ... mind and body ; and to all animals the requisites of animal existence and animal enjoyment . And upon this Chalmers ...
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Achæan animals Antoninus Pius beautiful become believe called carboniferous character Christianity Church colour Comte Cromarty Dante Dante's doctrine E. A. Freeman earth empire England English existence expressed fact feeling fish Greece Hadrian heathen Hugh Miller human inhabitants intellectual interest Jupiter kind knowledge labour land language less light living look Lord Macedonian Marcus Aurelius matter means ment mind moral mountains Namsen nature nebula never Niebuhr Norway object observation Old Red Sandstone passage peculiar period philosophy planets poem poet political position Positivism present principles readers reason regard reign religion remarkable river rocks Roderick Murchison Roman Ruskin salmon Scandinavia scarcely Scotland Scottish seems shew Silurian species speculations stars supposed theory things thought tion Trajan true truth Union Vinet whole
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Side 52 - I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human kind, or anything but the disagreeable symptoms of one of the phases of industrial progress.
Side 483 - With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone ; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
Side 52 - I cannot, therefore, regard the stationary state of capital and wealth with the unaffected aversion so generally manifested towards it by political economists of the old school. I am inclined to believe that it would be, on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition.
Side 477 - Far off ; — anon her mate comes winging back From hunting, and a great way off descries His huddling young left sole ; at that, he checks His pinion, and with short uneasy sweeps Circles above his...
Side 477 - Brimming, and bright, and large; then sands begin To hem his watery march, and dam his streams, And split his currents; that for many a league The shorn and parcell'd Oxus strains along Through beds of sand and matted rushy isles...
Side 483 - WE cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides ; The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides.
Side 179 - their bluest veins to kiss' — the shadow, as it steals back from them, revealing line after line of azure undulation, as a receding tide leaves the waved sand; their capitals rich with interwoven tracery, rooted knots of herbage, and drifting leaves of acanthus and vine, and mystical signs, all beginning and ending in the Cross; and above them in the broad archivolts, a continuous chain of language and of...
Side 184 - I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.
Side 146 - The education of the child must accord both in mode and arrangement with the education of mankind, considered historically.
Side 460 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.