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Side 14
... observation and experience . When reason has become the companion of our perceptions , omnipotence is the grand truth which they inculcate . We see it upon what- ever object our eye - balls converge , -we feel it at the tips of our ...
... observation and experience . When reason has become the companion of our perceptions , omnipotence is the grand truth which they inculcate . We see it upon what- ever object our eye - balls converge , -we feel it at the tips of our ...
Side 30
... observation , our author asserts that Sir John Herschel " in making this pro- vision , has overlooked that it may not be possible to keep them ( the planets ) in permanent orbits so near to the selected centre ; their sun may be a vast ...
... observation , our author asserts that Sir John Herschel " in making this pro- vision , has overlooked that it may not be possible to keep them ( the planets ) in permanent orbits so near to the selected centre ; their sun may be a vast ...
Side 33
... observation of volcanoes , active and extinct , and of rocks like churches , as made by the telescope , has no parallel in the analogy of the planets . The argument from analogy , indeed , in reference to the Earth , with its oblate ...
... observation of volcanoes , active and extinct , and of rocks like churches , as made by the telescope , has no parallel in the analogy of the planets . The argument from analogy , indeed , in reference to the Earth , with its oblate ...
Side 34
... observations : - " It may be said that a star which was a mere chaos , when the light by which we see it , set out from it , may , in the thousands of years which have since elapsed , have grown into an orderly world . To which bare ...
... observations : - " It may be said that a star which was a mere chaos , when the light by which we see it , set out from it , may , in the thousands of years which have since elapsed , have grown into an orderly world . To which bare ...
Side 46
... Observation , ever on the alert , preserves him alike from envy or repining : he sees from his attic window the luxurious furniture of one opposite neighbour , an actress or singer , seized for debt , and her chamber rudely dis- mantled ...
... Observation , ever on the alert , preserves him alike from envy or repining : he sees from his attic window the luxurious furniture of one opposite neighbour , an actress or singer , seized for debt , and her chamber rudely dis- mantled ...
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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.