The Intellectual and Moral Development of the Present AgeWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1853 - 127 páginas |
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... electricity , whether one and the same force , or different , are destined to dissolve our diffi- culties . According to one quasi philosopher , man's body is a magnet , * mysteriously communicating 66 * " Mesmer , " says Tennemann , in ...
... electricity , whether one and the same force , or different , are destined to dissolve our diffi- culties . According to one quasi philosopher , man's body is a magnet , * mysteriously communicating 66 * " Mesmer , " says Tennemann , in ...
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... electric nature " -I am quoting his words " a modification of that surprising agent which takes magnetism , heat , and light , as other subordi- nate forms : electricity being almost as metaphysical as ever mind was supposed to be ...
... electric nature " -I am quoting his words " a modification of that surprising agent which takes magnetism , heat , and light , as other subordi- nate forms : electricity being almost as metaphysical as ever mind was supposed to be ...
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... electrical sympathy and complacency ! What will be the next stage of this wondrous de- velopment ? It is hard to treat these things gravely ; yet they have been , and are , widely and sedulously disseminated in the present day , in this ...
... electrical sympathy and complacency ! What will be the next stage of this wondrous de- velopment ? It is hard to treat these things gravely ; yet they have been , and are , widely and sedulously disseminated in the present day , in this ...
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... who used to say he should like to go to the edge of the earth and look over ! " — Airey's Lectures on Astro- nomy , p . 46 , 2d edit . , 1848 . its electrical qualities ! ) — when the great Aristotle OF THE PRESENT AGE , 51.
... who used to say he should like to go to the edge of the earth and look over ! " — Airey's Lectures on Astro- nomy , p . 46 , 2d edit . , 1848 . its electrical qualities ! ) — when the great Aristotle OF THE PRESENT AGE , 51.
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Samuel Warren. its electrical qualities ! ) — when the great Aristotle taught that the heavenly bodies were bound fast in spheres which revolved with them round our earth —the bodies themselves being motionless — the first sphere being ...
Samuel Warren. its electrical qualities ! ) — when the great Aristotle taught that the heavenly bodies were bound fast in spheres which revolved with them round our earth —the bodies themselves being motionless — the first sphere being ...
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Página 56 - But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; And the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; And the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
Página 55 - Have the gates of death been opened unto thee ? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death ? Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth ? declare if thou knowest it all.
Página 41 - It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean. It is well he knows that it is long enough to reach the bottom, at such places as are necessary to direct his voyage, and caution him against running upon shoals that may ruin him.
Página 4 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Página 92 - The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it : because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
Página 68 - ... a red and a green, or a yellow and a blue one — must afford a planet circulating about either; and what charming contrasts and " grateful vicissitudes," — a red and a green day, for instance, alternating with a white one and with darkness, — might arise from the presence or absence of one or other, or both, above the horizon.
Página 102 - And if Natural Philosophy in all its parts, by pursuing this method, shall at length be perfected; the bounds of Moral Philosophy will be also enlarged. For so far as we can know by Natural Philosophy what is the First cause, what power He has over us, and what benefits we receive from Him; so far our duty towards Him, as well as that towards one another, will appear to us by the light of Nature.
Página 76 - He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Página 4 - This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England...
Página 123 - Every step in Scotland Is historical; the shades of the dead arise on every side; the very rocks breathe. Miss Strickland's talents as a writer, and turn of mind as an individual, in a peculiar manner fit her for painting a historical gallery of the most illustrious or dignified female characters in that land of chivalry and song."— Mtackwwid'e Mayasiite.