The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Band 60Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1863 |
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... less difficulties than the other - they can be satisfied to accept the better evidence and the easier theory . But it is otherwise with those who begin an investigation under the influence of Sir Charles Lyell divides his subject into ...
... less difficulties than the other - they can be satisfied to accept the better evidence and the easier theory . But it is otherwise with those who begin an investigation under the influence of Sir Charles Lyell divides his subject into ...
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... less a river in which such quadrupeds could swim . Also , they have , in general , their floor strewed over with sand , containing marine shells , all of living species ; and there are raised beaches on the adjoining This is all the ...
... less a river in which such quadrupeds could swim . Also , they have , in general , their floor strewed over with sand , containing marine shells , all of living species ; and there are raised beaches on the adjoining This is all the ...
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... less decisive testimony of cave - bone deposits . Let us , then , proceed to examine carefully the proofs of the great antiquity of the human race , derived from ancient valley alluviums . II . Valley alluviums . " Throughout a large ...
... less decisive testimony of cave - bone deposits . Let us , then , proceed to examine carefully the proofs of the great antiquity of the human race , derived from ancient valley alluviums . II . Valley alluviums . " Throughout a large ...
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... less puffed up with his own confidence ions has created , while the latter is due to of being above any ignorant trust in his the selfish love of ease which is so preva . fellow - creatures . He comes out of his lent among us . Well ...
... less puffed up with his own confidence ions has created , while the latter is due to of being above any ignorant trust in his the selfish love of ease which is so preva . fellow - creatures . He comes out of his lent among us . Well ...
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... less mis- chievous to the moral nature of the young than the absence of discipline ; and that even in matters of opinion , the habit of taking much upon trust as inculcated by an authority justly revered , is scarcely more enfeebling to ...
... less mis- chievous to the moral nature of the young than the absence of discipline ; and that even in matters of opinion , the habit of taking much upon trust as inculcated by an authority justly revered , is scarcely more enfeebling to ...
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Seite 391 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Seite 390 - In billows, leave i' the midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight, till on dry land He lights, if it were land that ever...
Seite 394 - Half-hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed, Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees, In fancy, fair St. Agnes in her bed, But dares not look behind, or all the charm is fled.
Seite 364 - STILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powder'd, still perfumed: Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face That makes simplicity a grace; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free: Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all th...
Seite 354 - British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of universal emancipation. No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced; no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon him; no matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down; no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery, — the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain...
Seite 236 - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Seite 352 - ... criminals a memorable example to mankind. He resolved, in the gloomy recesses of a mind capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance, and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those, against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together, was no protection.
Seite 362 - And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box ; The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transformed to combs, the speckled, and the white.
Seite 448 - And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And, if I give thee honor due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew...
Seite 391 - Looks through the Horizontal misty Air Shorn of his Beams, or from behind the Moon In dim Eclips disastrous twilight sheds On half the Nations, and with fear of change Perplexes Monarchs. Dark'n'd so, yet shon Above them all th...