A course of elementary reading in science and literature, compiled by J.M. M'CullochJames Melville M'Culloch 1882 |
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... Continued , ......... Laws of Elementary Combination ,. The Atmosphere , .. ......... Id . 106 Brougham 144 .Fownes 152 Gregory 156 Compiled 158 ... Id . 160 Tulloch 164 ..Compiled 199 .Turner 217 Properties of Heat ,. Radiation ...
... Continued , ......... Laws of Elementary Combination ,. The Atmosphere , .. ......... Id . 106 Brougham 144 .Fownes 152 Gregory 156 Compiled 158 ... Id . 160 Tulloch 164 ..Compiled 199 .Turner 217 Properties of Heat ,. Radiation ...
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... Saxon and the Gael , The Saxon and the Gael continued ... Milton , Milman , Dale 43 61 .Mrs Hemans , Tennyson , Mrs Southey 68 ..Sir Walter Scott 75 Id . 78 The Alps ,. To an Egyptian Mummy ,. Quotations from 10 CONTENTS .
... Saxon and the Gael , The Saxon and the Gael continued ... Milton , Milman , Dale 43 61 .Mrs Hemans , Tennyson , Mrs Southey 68 ..Sir Walter Scott 75 Id . 78 The Alps ,. To an Egyptian Mummy ,. Quotations from 10 CONTENTS .
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... continued for genera- tions ; and when old varieties fail , new ones , of equal value to man , may be produced and propagated . The number of individual plants is beyond all computa- tion . Even the known species are upwards of 120,000 ...
... continued for genera- tions ; and when old varieties fail , new ones , of equal value to man , may be produced and propagated . The number of individual plants is beyond all computa- tion . Even the known species are upwards of 120,000 ...
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... continued a kind of hobbling march on the broken arches , but fell through one after another , being quite tired and spent with so long a walk . I passed some time in the contemplation of this wonderful structure , and the variety of ...
... continued a kind of hobbling march on the broken arches , but fell through one after another , being quite tired and spent with so long a walk . I passed some time in the contemplation of this wonderful structure , and the variety of ...
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... continued at work during the gradual and successive depositions of the strati- fied rocks , breaking up and dislocating the superincumbent strata , and forcing upwards large portions of the granitic mass . Under the action of such ...
... continued at work during the gradual and successive depositions of the strati- fied rocks , breaking up and dislocating the superincumbent strata , and forcing upwards large portions of the granitic mass . Under the action of such ...
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Page 386 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims aronnd him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 128 - Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Page 112 - And this is in the night : — Most glorious night ! Thou wert not sent for slumber ! let me be A sharer in thy fierce and far delight, — A portion of the tempest and of thee ! How the lit lake shines, a phosphoric sea, And the big rain comes dancing to the earth ! And now again 'tis black, — and now, the glee Of the loud hills shakes with its mountain-mirth, As if they did rejoice o'er a young earthquake's birth.
Page 173 - Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears; Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
Page 230 - Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay And o'cr-informed the tenement of clay.
Page 324 - I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky ; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain The pavilion of Heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams Build up the blue dome of air...
Page 297 - I care not, Fortune, what you me deny: You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace: You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her bright'ning face; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve: Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great Children leave: Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Page 200 - Oh! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet. With the sky above my head. And the grass beneath my feet ; For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal!
Page 63 - Our revels now are ended... These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind: we are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep..
Page 243 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.— But hark!