Littell's Living Age, Volume 99Living Age Company, Incorporated, 1868 |
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Página 45
... kind strangers that she possessed no friends , that the only tie which now united her to her kind , existed between her and a young man to whom she hoped in time to be married . Alice did the only thing which , under the circumstances ...
... kind strangers that she possessed no friends , that the only tie which now united her to her kind , existed between her and a young man to whom she hoped in time to be married . Alice did the only thing which , under the circumstances ...
Página 109
... kind of gigantic fur upon the bottom of the earth kettle , which is kept pretty hot below . Let us try another method of making the chalk tell us its own history . To the unas- sisted eye chalk looks simply like a very loose and open kind ...
... kind of gigantic fur upon the bottom of the earth kettle , which is kept pretty hot below . Let us try another method of making the chalk tell us its own history . To the unas- sisted eye chalk looks simply like a very loose and open kind ...
Página 113
... kind are admirably de- scribed by Sir Charles Lyell . He speaks of the frequency with which geologists find in the chalk a fossilized sea - urchin , to which is attached the lower valve of a Crania . This is a kind of shell - fish ...
... kind are admirably de- scribed by Sir Charles Lyell . He speaks of the frequency with which geologists find in the chalk a fossilized sea - urchin , to which is attached the lower valve of a Crania . This is a kind of shell - fish ...
Página 114
... kind . But the relative age of the cre- taceous epoch may be determined with as great ease and certainty as the long dura- tion of that epoch . You will have heard of the interesting discoveries recently made , in various parts of ...
... kind . But the relative age of the cre- taceous epoch may be determined with as great ease and certainty as the long dura- tion of that epoch . You will have heard of the interesting discoveries recently made , in various parts of ...
Página 119
... kind of food , a food perhaps less nourishing and less digestible . Natural selection ' will now act upon the stom- ach and intestines , and all their individual vari- ations will be taken advantage of to modify the race into harmony ...
... kind of food , a food perhaps less nourishing and less digestible . Natural selection ' will now act upon the stom- ach and intestines , and all their individual vari- ations will be taken advantage of to modify the race into harmony ...
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Alice Amyas Apollo Belvedere asked asteroids Baldock beauty believe Blackwood's Magazine Bramleigh Brentford called Captain Crozier chalk character Charles child church coccoliths cried Cutbill daugh death doubt earth Eliot Foster England English eral eyes face father feeling felt Finn France French girl give hand Haviland heard heart Henry Hurst Highland hope Hugh Gaynor human interest Irish Jack Julia King knew land less letter live look Lord Loughton Madame de Krudener marriage Mars ment mind minor planets mole-catcher mother nature ness never Nina Balatka observations once passion perhaps person Phineas Phineas Finn planet poor Pracontal present Prince Scarlet Letter Scotland Sedley seems smile soul spirit strange tell things thought tion told took true turned uncle Wesley wild woman words write young
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Página 311 - Go thy way : for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel : for I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
Página 460 - ... the passage from' the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process...
Página 286 - That thence the Royal actor borne The tragic scaffold might adorn : While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands. He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try; Nor call'd the Gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right ; But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a bed.
Página 448 - The word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims came, As they sat by the seaside, And filled their hearts with flame. God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor.
Página 47 - Would I describe a preacher, such as Paul, Were he on Earth, would hear, approve, and own, Paul should himself direct me. I would trace His master-strokes, and draw from his design. I would express him simple, grave, sincere ; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner...
Página 461 - ... to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why. Were our minds and senses so expanded, strengthened and illuminated as to enable us to see and feel the very molecules of the brain ; were we capable of following all their motions, all their groupings, all their electric discharges, if such there be ; and were we intimately acquainted with the corresponding states of thought and feeling, we should be as far as ever from the • solution of the problem, ' How are these physical processes...
Página 199 - Until they won her ; for indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and amiable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man.
Página 80 - Sin has educated Donatello, and elevated him. Is Sin, then — which we deem such a dreadful blackness in the universe — is it, like Sorrow, merely an element of human education, through which we struggle to a higher and purer state than we could otherwise have attained? Did Adam fall, that we might ultimately rise to a far loftier paradise than his?
Página 448 - Pay ransom to the owner And fill the bag to the brim. Who is the owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him.
Página 254 - Would God it were evening !' and, in the evening,