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... course of four years made many a strange acquaint- ance . I refer here to the circumstance , that it may become the ground of recommendation to the young student , who is distressed by the spectacle of suffering , to interest him- self ...
... course of four years made many a strange acquaint- ance . I refer here to the circumstance , that it may become the ground of recommendation to the young student , who is distressed by the spectacle of suffering , to interest him- self ...
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... course of lectures on chemistry in the School of Arts , he was in some measure prepared to enter on the systematic study of this science . In his " Life of Edward Forbes , " after depicting the great change ' wrought by the passing of ...
... course of lectures on chemistry in the School of Arts , he was in some measure prepared to enter on the systematic study of this science . In his " Life of Edward Forbes , " after depicting the great change ' wrought by the passing of ...
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... course of the day . It is not to be a diary either of events or feelings ; that is to say , I have not the intention ... courses of reasoning which have busied me ; and in this light will occasionally be of service , by affording the ...
... course of the day . It is not to be a diary either of events or feelings ; that is to say , I have not the intention ... courses of reasoning which have busied me ; and in this light will occasionally be of service , by affording the ...
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... course of study necessary for entrance upon the profession he had chosen , although not old enough to obtain the degree of M.D. He had also come fairly under many of the influences which were most powerful in the development of his ...
... course of study necessary for entrance upon the profession he had chosen , although not old enough to obtain the degree of M.D. He had also come fairly under many of the influences which were most powerful in the development of his ...
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... course of lectures on chemistry , especially the chemistry of nature . It was in the winter of 1837-38 , so that I was then at . 19 ; the majority of my audience were older by a year or two . I was greatly praised and encouraged , most ...
... course of lectures on chemistry , especially the chemistry of nature . It was in the winter of 1837-38 , so that I was then at . 19 ; the majority of my audience were older by a year or two . I was greatly praised and encouraged , most ...
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Página 65 - But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on...
Página 306 - HOW doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower...
Página 205 - Its features were fixed and meaningless, Yet animal life was there, And every organ yet performed Its natural functions : 'twas a sight Of wonder to behold the body and soul. The self-same lineaments, the same Marks of identity were there : Yet, oh, how different ! One aspires to Heaven, Pants for its sempiternal heritage, And ever-changing, ever-rising still, Wantons in endless being.
Página 2 - THEY grew in beauty side by side, They filled one home with glee, Their graves are severed far and wide, By mount, and stream, and sea. The same fond mother bent at night O'er each fair sleeping brow, She had each folded flower in sight— Where are those dreamers now? One midst the...
Página 367 - Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart...
Página 6 - God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, the Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads...
Página 88 - The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him : but his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob...
Página 316 - God's countenance, and a few groans by the infinite and eternal hallelujahs ; so much are the sorrows of the godly to be undervalued in respect of what is deposited for them in the treasures of Eternity.
Página 154 - ... where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. ^And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched : ** where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Página 151 - The particular pangs are now forgotten ; but the blank whirlwind of emotion, the horror of great darkness, and the sense of desertion by God and man, bordering close upon despair, which swept through my mind and overwhelmed my heart, I can never forget, however gladly I would do so.