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... labour of throwing off ten thousand impres- sions of a sheet was then very great , and what is now done in a few hours or days , would then have taken up as many months or years . The printed sheets that issue from the periodical press ...
... labour of throwing off ten thousand impres- sions of a sheet was then very great , and what is now done in a few hours or days , would then have taken up as many months or years . The printed sheets that issue from the periodical press ...
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... labours there , -- his beautiful and ori- ginal discoveries regarding the nervous system , -and his enthusiastic pursuit of his profession , both at home and on the battle field abroad , are well known . Amid all these labours , his ...
... labours there , -- his beautiful and ori- ginal discoveries regarding the nervous system , -and his enthusiastic pursuit of his profession , both at home and on the battle field abroad , are well known . Amid all these labours , his ...
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... labour ; with others it is the soother of idle and unoccupied hours . One takes to to- bacco from toothache , headache , or heartache ; others from study , from listlessness , or inability to fix the at- tention . Some extol it on a ...
... labour ; with others it is the soother of idle and unoccupied hours . One takes to to- bacco from toothache , headache , or heartache ; others from study , from listlessness , or inability to fix the at- tention . Some extol it on a ...
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... labours of philosophers to transmute one metal into another , the golden dreams of the experimenter in his laboratory , toil- ing to produce the elixir of life , the grand pana- cea for old age , the spiritual drops of resuscitation ...
... labours of philosophers to transmute one metal into another , the golden dreams of the experimenter in his laboratory , toil- ing to produce the elixir of life , the grand pana- cea for old age , the spiritual drops of resuscitation ...
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... labours of science shaped or directed in favour of its elucidation , but all in the contrary way . " Now his leading views have been afloat in the world ever since philosophy was known . Not to dwell on the Epicureans , -Lucretius , for ...
... labours of science shaped or directed in favour of its elucidation , but all in the contrary way . " Now his leading views have been afloat in the world ever since philosophy was known . Not to dwell on the Epicureans , -Lucretius , for ...
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Page 329 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Page 326 - one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
Page 85 - Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came ; And lo, Creation widened in man's view.
Page 40 - Thou hast made me, though very unworthy, a mean instrument to do them some good, and Thee service; and many of them have set too high a value upon me, though others wish, and would be glad of my death ; but, Lord, however Thou do dispose of me, continue and go on to do good for them.
Page 250 - There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Page 328 - When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Page 25 - ... would it be too bold to imagine, that all warmblooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which THE GREAT FIRST CAUSE endued with animality, with the power of acquiring new parts, attended with new propensities, directed by irritations, sensations, volitions, and associations; and thus possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity...
Page 85 - Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on...
Page 286 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast...
Page 106 - OH, when I was a tiny boy, My days and nights were full of joy, My mates were blithe and kind ! — No wonder that I sometimes sigh, And dash the teardrop from my eye, To cast a look behind ! A hoop was an eternal round Of pleasure. In those days I found A top a joyous thing ; — But now those past delights I drop, My head, alas ! is all my top, And careful thoughts the string ! My marbles — once my bag was...