The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature, Volume 4American Book Exchange, 1880 |
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... origin in an advanced period of civilization . The sense of human beauty , connected as it is with the most universal of passions , probably de- veloped itself long before the historical period ; it is certain that in the earliest times ...
... origin in an advanced period of civilization . The sense of human beauty , connected as it is with the most universal of passions , probably de- veloped itself long before the historical period ; it is certain that in the earliest times ...
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... origin . And geology , which traces back the course of history beyond the limits of archæology , could tell us nothing except for the assump- tion that , millions of years ago , water , heat , gravitation , friction , animal and ...
... origin . And geology , which traces back the course of history beyond the limits of archæology , could tell us nothing except for the assump- tion that , millions of years ago , water , heat , gravitation , friction , animal and ...
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... origin . And when you cannot prove that people are wrong , but only that they are absurd , the best course is to let them alone . The whole fabric of palæontology , in fact , falls to the ground unless we admit the validity of Zadig's ...
... origin . And when you cannot prove that people are wrong , but only that they are absurd , the best course is to let them alone . The whole fabric of palæontology , in fact , falls to the ground unless we admit the validity of Zadig's ...
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... origin of the most conspicuous mountain masses of the present world and the deposition , at the bottom of the ocean , of the rocks which form the greater part of the soil of our present continents.The Euphrates itself , at the mouth of ...
... origin of the most conspicuous mountain masses of the present world and the deposition , at the bottom of the ocean , of the rocks which form the greater part of the soil of our present continents.The Euphrates itself , at the mouth of ...
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... origins unacceptable . It gives us a human per sonage no longer , but a God seated immovable amid his perfect work , like Jupiter on Olympus and hardly will it be possible for the young student , to whom such work is exhibited at such a ...
... origins unacceptable . It gives us a human per sonage no longer , but a God seated immovable amid his perfect work , like Jupiter on Olympus and hardly will it be possible for the young student , to whom such work is exhibited at such a ...
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Página 118 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Página 122 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Página 123 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Página 122 - Faith, he maunna fa' that! For a' that, and a' that; Their dignities, and a' that, The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher ranks than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may,— As come it will for a' that,— That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a
Página 104 - Our religion has materialised itself in the fact, in the supposed fact; it has attached its emotion to the fact, and now the fact is failing it. But for poetry the idea is everything ; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion to-day is its unconscious poetry.
Página 111 - Led on the eternal Spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world...
Página 337 - ... assert Eternal Providence, and justify the ways of God to man.
Página 57 - To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Página 59 - I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name, — if ten honest men only, — ay, if one HONEST man, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this copartnership, and be locked up in the county jail therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America.
Página 121 - Scripture, They raise a din that in the end Is like to breed a rupture O' -wrath that day. Leeze me on drink! it gies us mair Than either school or college; It kindles wit, it waukens lear, It pangs us fou o