Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 25; Volume 88John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1877 - American periodicals |
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... speak with an au- thority on all that concerns the Eskimo to which no other living man can pre- tend . In that most useful and laborious work , Ersch and Grüber's ' Cyclopædia , ' there is , indeed , a monograph of the Es- kimo which ...
... speak with an au- thority on all that concerns the Eskimo to which no other living man can pre- tend . In that most useful and laborious work , Ersch and Grüber's ' Cyclopædia , ' there is , indeed , a monograph of the Es- kimo which ...
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... speak , " and felt " that here man was in his highest place , defending the interests of human- ity with the wonderful power of speech . " 66 66 Had I been born in England , I had rather be dead than not sit and speak among them ! " He ...
... speak , " and felt " that here man was in his highest place , defending the interests of human- ity with the wonderful power of speech . " 66 66 Had I been born in England , I had rather be dead than not sit and speak among them ! " He ...
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... speak , from the life of sight , sound , and move- ment , which , being common to all , binds us together in mutual recognition and social action , has always something awe- inspiring . How unlike that external in- action , that torpor ...
... speak , from the life of sight , sound , and move- ment , which , being common to all , binds us together in mutual recognition and social action , has always something awe- inspiring . How unlike that external in- action , that torpor ...
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... speak , dream - fancy , we are greatly in- debted to the researches of M. Alf . Maury , described in his elaborate and highly interesting volume entitled Le Sommeil et les Rêves . M. Maury made experiments on this subject by engaging a ...
... speak , dream - fancy , we are greatly in- debted to the researches of M. Alf . Maury , described in his elaborate and highly interesting volume entitled Le Sommeil et les Rêves . M. Maury made experiments on this subject by engaging a ...
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... speak , in the fine threads which bind together , in so complicated a way , our impressions and ideas . The subject ... speaking generally , sequences of dream- thought are determined by certain cir- cumstances and laws , and so far are ...
... speak , in the fine threads which bind together , in so complicated a way , our impressions and ideas . The subject ... speaking generally , sequences of dream- thought are determined by certain cir- cumstances and laws , and so far are ...
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Page 546 - ... and on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit, and they shall prophesy. And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath, blood and fire and vapour of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come.
Page 128 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;} " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.
Page 478 - Rest unto our souls." —Rest unto our souls! — 'tis all we want, — the end of all our wishes and pursuits : give us a prospect of this, we take the wings of the morning, and fly to the uttermost parts of the earth...
Page 286 - Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil ? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Page 279 - Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion ; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during •which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.
Page 500 - Ben Battle was a soldier bold, And used to war's alarms; But a cannon-ball took off his legs, So he laid down his arms ! Now as they bore him off the field, Said he, "Let others shoot, For here I leave my second leg, And the Forty-second Foot!
Page 368 - An' syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o' Greek! Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire; Then tho' I drudge thro' dub an' mire At pleugh or cart, My Muse, though hamely in attire, May touch the heart.
Page 211 - Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.
Page 529 - Lord," he said to the Duke of Devonshire, " I am sure that I can save this country, and that nobody else can.
Page 514 - The Principles of Mental Physiology. With their Applications to the Training and Discipline of the Mind, and the Study of its Morbid Conditions.