The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural History, and the Fine Arts, Volume 5Edward Mammatt Simpkin and Marshall, 1836 |
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... knowledge , and when questioned on the subject of his voyage , he was used to say , that , independently of the gratification of a laudable curiosity , he deemed it a sort of duty in a medical man to visit distant countries ; for that ...
... knowledge , and when questioned on the subject of his voyage , he was used to say , that , independently of the gratification of a laudable curiosity , he deemed it a sort of duty in a medical man to visit distant countries ; for that ...
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... knowledge , more especially in the cultivation of curious and rare plants . Lec- tures are also given twice a week during the season , which are at- tended by more than two hundred students . Sir Hans Sloane con- tinued a steady friend ...
... knowledge , more especially in the cultivation of curious and rare plants . Lec- tures are also given twice a week during the season , which are at- tended by more than two hundred students . Sir Hans Sloane con- tinued a steady friend ...
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... knowledge so ycleped in modern times - but to the promulgation of every discovery in the healing art which his wisdom and long experience considered beneficial in all those " ills which flesh is heir to . " Many marine productions ...
... knowledge so ycleped in modern times - but to the promulgation of every discovery in the healing art which his wisdom and long experience considered beneficial in all those " ills which flesh is heir to . " Many marine productions ...
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... knowledge of its habits would be very deficient . Its manners , or at least its general eco- nomy , are so familiar to almost every one , that they need not be detailed in this communication , especially as I have elsewhere en- larged ...
... knowledge of its habits would be very deficient . Its manners , or at least its general eco- nomy , are so familiar to almost every one , that they need not be detailed in this communication , especially as I have elsewhere en- larged ...
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... knowledge was concentrated in the individual ; then study meant mystery , and science witchcraft . Chemistry had not risen out of the alchymist's crucible , and astronomy lay hidden beneath the jar- gon of astrology . Thus , our poet ...
... knowledge was concentrated in the individual ; then study meant mystery , and science witchcraft . Chemistry had not risen out of the alchymist's crucible , and astronomy lay hidden beneath the jar- gon of astrology . Thus , our poet ...
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Página 69 - For, by the sacred radiance of the sun, The mysteries of Hecate, and the night ; By all the operations of the orbs, From whom we do exist, and cease to be...
Página 260 - Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet ; For every pelting, petty officer, Would use his heaven for thunder ; nothing but thunder.
Página 65 - What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.
Página 200 - Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most within me — could I wreak My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw Soul, heart, mind, passions, feelings, strong or weak, All that I would have sought, and all I seek, Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe — into one word, And that one word were Lightning, I would speak ; But as it is, I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword.
Página 47 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Página 64 - gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! O fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely.
Página 266 - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, From beds of raging fire to starve in ice...
Página 66 - ... for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another, ideas, wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.
Página 261 - Though thy clime Be fickle, and thy year most part deformed, With dripping rains, or withered by a frost, I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies, And fields without a flower, for warmer France With all her vines ; nor for Ausonia's groves Of golden fruitage, and her myrtle bowers.
Página 59 - There's fennel for you, and columbines; there's rue for you; and here's some for me; we may call it herb of grace o' Sundays. O, you must wear your rue with a difference. There's a daisy; I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died.