George Tyrrell's Letters

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T.F. Unwin, 1920 - 301 páginas
 

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Página 295 - You are old," said the youth, "and your jaws are too weak For anything tougher than suet; Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak~~ Pray, how did you manage to do it?
Página 6 - He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid them: thus he came at length To find a stronger faith his own; And Power was with him in the night, Which makes the darkness and the light, And dwells not in the light alone, But in the darkness and the cloud, As over Sinai's peaks of old, While Israel made their gods of gold, Altho
Página 26 - Cordillera of the Andes, enters the land of the Spanish Main, conducts the reader along the Amazon Valley, gives a special chapter to Brazil and another to the River Plate and Pampas. Thus all the States of Central and South America are covered.
Página 7 - ... This volume represents a series of almost continuous explorations hardly ever paralleled in the huge areas traversed. The author is a distinguished field naturalist — one of those who accompanied Colonel Roosevelt on his famous South American expedition — and his first object in his wanderings over 150,000 miles of territory was the observation of wild life ; but hardly second was that of exploration. The result is a wonderfully informative, impressive and often thrilling narrative in which...
Página 22 - MATTOS and BERNARD MIALL. With 16 Illustrations. Demy 8vo, cloth. (Third Impression.) " Nothing has ever been written in the literature of natural history more fascinating than the essays of JH Fabre.
Página 21 - Celebrities,' which Messrs. Fisher Unwin publish. The author, Mr. ET Raymond, Is mercilessly careful to explain in his preface that the work is 'not meant (cr the hero-worshipper.'" — EVENING STANDARD. "No book of personal studies of recent years has given so much food for thought, and in spite of its frankness it is always fair. Mr. Raymond has succeeded in revealing men without taking sides. . . Here we have clear vision, sane opinion, and a very useful sense of humour, not always free from acid.
Página 7 - I've looked for help i' the right quarter, and gev myself up to Them as we must all give ourselves up to at the last; and if we'n done our part, it isn't to be believed as Them as are above us 'ull be worse nor we are, and come short o
Página 39 - The primary function of religion is not the consoling of the natural man as it finds him, but the purification of this man, by effecting an ever-growing cleavage and contrast between his bad false self, and the false, blind self-love that clings to that self and his good true self; and the deepest, generally confused and dumb, aspirations of every human heart...
Página 3 - The reasons which, for a time, gave prominence to the Southern sympathies of the British ruling classes, while rendering almost inarticulate the far deeper feeling for the Cause of Union and Emancipation among the masses of our people, are examined and explained. Such dramatic incidents as the Trent affair, the launching of the "Alabama...
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