Proceedings of the Annual Conference, Bände 3-5

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Seite 969 - I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun.
Seite 460 - Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought, That givest to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or star-light thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul; Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things — With life and nature, purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline, Both pain...
Seite 824 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Tet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Seite 454 - The committee on resolutions presented the following report which was unanimously adopted.
Seite 530 - ... a little world; but not perplexed, living with a singleness of aim not known without; the home of sagacious men, hard-headed, and with a will to know, debaters of the world's questions every day and used to the rough ways of democracy; and yet a place removed — calm Science seated there, recluse, ascetic, like a nun, not knowing that the world passes, not caring if the truth but come in answer to her prayer...
Seite 597 - And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, And the rock is removed out of its place ; The waters wear the stones ; The overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth: And thou destroyest the hope of man.
Seite 800 - Like some tall cliff that rears Its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its base the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Seite 812 - The only part of my professional course which really and deeply interested me was physiology, which is the mechanical engineering of living machines ; and, notwithstanding that natural science has been my proper business, I am afraid there is very little of the genuine naturalist in me.
Seite 826 - Second, in the oxidation, all of the potential energy of the alcohol was transformed into heat or muscular power.
Seite 794 - Heaven and earth ; and let such a nobility appear in thee as to try all things and to hold fast that which is good...

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