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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... opinion that the present state of the British Museum , compared with the increasing interest taken in it by all classes of the people , justifies them in the recommendations contained in the above resolutions . " 18. That the committee ...
... opinion that the present state of the British Museum , compared with the increasing interest taken in it by all classes of the people , justifies them in the recommendations contained in the above resolutions . " 18. That the committee ...
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... opinion , we believe , is , that the winter in Malvern is colder than in other situations ; but the result of two years ' careful observation has shewn that this season is as mild in Malvern as in London . A thermometer in the shade ...
... opinion , we believe , is , that the winter in Malvern is colder than in other situations ; but the result of two years ' careful observation has shewn that this season is as mild in Malvern as in London . A thermometer in the shade ...
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... opinion that the movements of accurate barometers within a moderate distance ( 100 miles ) of each other , are nearly simultaneous and equal , except when the mercury is rapidly rising and falling , then some hours occasionally ...
... opinion that the movements of accurate barometers within a moderate distance ( 100 miles ) of each other , are nearly simultaneous and equal , except when the mercury is rapidly rising and falling , then some hours occasionally ...
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... read a passage in an au- thor where his opinion agrees with mine ; when we differ , there I pronounce him to be mistaken . " - Swift . deceit in so superstitious and ignorant an era . The 36 SOME REMARKS ON THE PHILOSOPHY AND.
... read a passage in an au- thor where his opinion agrees with mine ; when we differ , there I pronounce him to be mistaken . " - Swift . deceit in so superstitious and ignorant an era . The 36 SOME REMARKS ON THE PHILOSOPHY AND.
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... opinion , they judged it should be the dreadfull coast of the Bermodes , which islands were of all nations said and supposed to bee enchanted and inhabited with witches and devills , & c . & c . " The name of The Tempest , is even ...
... opinion , they judged it should be the dreadfull coast of the Bermodes , which islands were of all nations said and supposed to bee enchanted and inhabited with witches and devills , & c . & c . " The name of The Tempest , is even ...
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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.