Viator: Or, A Peep Into My Note BookPlaskitt & Cugle, 1841 - 355 oldal |
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12. oldal
... fact , but still , not guilty , as to the matter really at issue , since they have made no promise to give thee any thing approaching unto tales or narratives ; so that , it would be quite as reasonable in thee to complain of a treatise ...
... fact , but still , not guilty , as to the matter really at issue , since they have made no promise to give thee any thing approaching unto tales or narratives ; so that , it would be quite as reasonable in thee to complain of a treatise ...
13. oldal
... fact that , when they are combined with the volumes on a parlour table , they are extremely apt to seduce the mind from the more solid matter , and to content the butterfly- lookers into books , with knowledge gained picto- rially , and ...
... fact that , when they are combined with the volumes on a parlour table , they are extremely apt to seduce the mind from the more solid matter , and to content the butterfly- lookers into books , with knowledge gained picto- rially , and ...
17. oldal
... facts and opinions in for- gotten literature and science , that otherwise might never have reached them ! Be this as it may , I shall complete my series , in my own way , both as to matter and manner , justly hoping , but not ar- dently ...
... facts and opinions in for- gotten literature and science , that otherwise might never have reached them ! Be this as it may , I shall complete my series , in my own way , both as to matter and manner , justly hoping , but not ar- dently ...
77. oldal
... Facts , ' each in one small volume ! In the approaching sunny days , that I antici- pate , days of almost universal and co - equal know- ledge , we may find our statesmen and politicians looking down , with felicitous contempt , on the ...
... Facts , ' each in one small volume ! In the approaching sunny days , that I antici- pate , days of almost universal and co - equal know- ledge , we may find our statesmen and politicians looking down , with felicitous contempt , on the ...
82. oldal
... fact mainly relied on by the antediluvians ; but which fact , was proba- bly also a hoax ! It would seem , then , that aristocracy and demo- cracy , in all matters of science and of learning , are equally evils . Learning , when ...
... fact mainly relied on by the antediluvians ; but which fact , was proba- bly also a hoax ! It would seem , then , that aristocracy and demo- cracy , in all matters of science and of learning , are equally evils . Learning , when ...
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169. oldal - Thou art the garden of the world, the home Of all Art yields, and Nature can decree ; Even in thy desert, what is like to thee ? Thy very weeds are beautiful, thy waste More rich than other climes' fertility ; Thy wreck a glory, and thy ruin graced With an immaculate charm which cannot be defaced.
176. oldal - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
308. oldal - After his first plunge into the sea, he no sooner raised his head above the water but he found himself standing by the side of the tub, with the great men of his court about him, and the holy man at his side.
257. oldal - Eternal Maker has ordain'd The powers of man; we feel within ourselves His energy divine; he tells the heart, He meant, he made us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and being; to be great like him, Beneficent and active. Thus the men Whom Nature's works can charm, with God himself Hold converse; grow familiar, day by day, With his conceptions, act upon his plan; And form to his, the relish of their souls.
352. oldal - REMORSE is as the heart in which it grows : If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance ; but if proud and gloomy, It is a poison-tree, that pierced to the inmost Weeps only tears of poison ! Alv.
226. oldal - The forms with which He sprinkles all the earth. Happy who walks with him ! whom what he finds Of flavour or of scent in fruit or flower, Or what he views of beautiful or grand In nature, from the broad, majestic oak To the green blade that twinkles in the sun, Prompts with remembrance of a present God.
146. oldal - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
269. oldal - True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy...
275. oldal - Our life is two-fold : Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence : Sleep hath its own world, And a wide realm of wild reality. And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy...
307. oldal - Gabriel carried him away, before the water was all spilt.* There is a very pretty story in the Turkish tales, which relates to this passage of that famous impostor, and bears some affinity to the subject we are now upon. A sultan of Egypt, who was an infidel, used to laugh at this circumstance in Mahomet's life, as what was altogether impossible and absurd; but conversing one day with a great doctor in the law, who had the gift of working miracles, the doctor told him he would quickly convince him...