The British Controversialist and Literary MagazineHoulston and Stonemen, 1865 |
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... present Archbishop of York held a fair although an undistinguished place . In 1837 , William Thomson proceeded as a foundation scholar to the university of Oxford , — thus becoming , what he was for a long time known as , " Thomson of ...
... present Archbishop of York held a fair although an undistinguished place . In 1837 , William Thomson proceeded as a foundation scholar to the university of Oxford , — thus becoming , what he was for a long time known as , " Thomson of ...
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... present day , keeping as closely as possible to the original , both in sense and style , " with notes , many of which are acute , and all useful . The text is arranged in three books , thus : -I . , part 1st , Birth and Childhood of ...
... present day , keeping as closely as possible to the original , both in sense and style , " with notes , many of which are acute , and all useful . The text is arranged in three books , thus : -I . , part 1st , Birth and Childhood of ...
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... present state of physical research than what may be called the transcendental character of its results . And what is transcendentalism but the tendency to trace up all things to the relation in which they stand to abstract ideas ? And ...
... present state of physical research than what may be called the transcendental character of its results . And what is transcendentalism but the tendency to trace up all things to the relation in which they stand to abstract ideas ? And ...
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... present influential position in 1852 . The following is an epitome of his lec- ture : - We see the wonders of science , and we are daily reaping the fruits of in- vestigations the most profound , of genius the most elevated , of the ...
... present influential position in 1852 . The following is an epitome of his lec- ture : - We see the wonders of science , and we are daily reaping the fruits of in- vestigations the most profound , of genius the most elevated , of the ...
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... present to the mind , or at least sug- gest , two differing but analogous ideas . The surcharge of meaning hereby provided supplies a delight of which imagination is greedy . But unless this feeling of analogy is attained well and ...
... present to the mind , or at least sug- gest , two differing but analogous ideas . The surcharge of meaning hereby provided supplies a delight of which imagination is greedy . But unless this feeling of analogy is attained well and ...
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47. oldal - Are those her ribs through which the Sun Did peer, as through a grate? And is that Woman all her crew? Is that a DEATH? and are there two? Is DEATH that woman's mate?
153. oldal - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object: can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?
232. oldal - is a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences.
152. oldal - ... only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose ; often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.
230. oldal - He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
152. oldal - ... an objection. Sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation, of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look or gesture passeth for it.
49. oldal - Tis a month before the month of May, And the Spring comes slowly up this way. The lovely lady, Christabel, Whom her father loves so well, What makes her in the wood so late, A furlong from the castle gate ? She had dreams all yesternight Of her own betrothed knight ; And she in the midnight wood will pray For the weal of her lover that's far away.
103. oldal - Our clock strikes when there is a change from hour to hour; but no hammer in the Horologe of Time peals through the universe, when there is a change from Era to Era.
400. oldal - ... no dictionary of a living tongue ever can be perfect, since, while it is hastening to publication, some words are budding, and some falling away...
152. oldal - ... under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection ; sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense...