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... spent in visiting picturesque ruins , bringing home botanical or geological specimens , as tangible tokens of the day's pursuits . A " Juvenile Society for the Advancement of Knowledge " was helpful to such tastes . It met weekly at the ...
... spent in visiting picturesque ruins , bringing home botanical or geological specimens , as tangible tokens of the day's pursuits . A " Juvenile Society for the Advancement of Knowledge " was helpful to such tastes . It met weekly at the ...
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... spent many hours each day in chemical research . " 1 Of this laboratory we shall hear again . Mr. Turner , the Professsor of Surgery , " was a most uninteresting lecturer ; a timid , shy man , who could not look his class in the face ...
... spent many hours each day in chemical research . " 1 Of this laboratory we shall hear again . Mr. Turner , the Professsor of Surgery , " was a most uninteresting lecturer ; a timid , shy man , who could not look his class in the face ...
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... spent at Loch Katrine , Loch Lomond , and elsewhere . As bearing on this very happy excursion , we give the following letter to his mother . Sept. 26th . " I sit down in a great hurry to write you a few lines before leaving Glasgow ...
... spent at Loch Katrine , Loch Lomond , and elsewhere . As bearing on this very happy excursion , we give the following letter to his mother . Sept. 26th . " I sit down in a great hurry to write you a few lines before leaving Glasgow ...
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... spent more than two weeks , having returned to town on Friday evening from Lanark , which I made the goal of my journey . " ' Gayfield Square , June 18th , 1838 . " My only excuse for not writing to you , has been the apparently ...
... spent more than two weeks , having returned to town on Friday evening from Lanark , which I made the goal of my journey . " ' Gayfield Square , June 18th , 1838 . " My only excuse for not writing to you , has been the apparently ...
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... spent a very happy evening among a circle of young chemists . I stayed behind them all , and had a long talk with him , from which I learned a great deal , not reaching home till one o'clock , so great are the distances . " I am afraid ...
... spent a very happy evening among a circle of young chemists . I stayed behind them all , and had a long talk with him , from which I learned a great deal , not reaching home till one o'clock , so great are the distances . " I am afraid ...
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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.