A course of elementary reading in science and literature, compiled by J.M. M'CullochJames Melville M'Culloch 1882 |
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... mountain , and links together , with its iron but loving grasp , all nations of the earth . Labour draws forth its delicate iron - thread , and stretching it from city to city , and from province to province , constructs a chariot on ...
... mountain , and links together , with its iron but loving grasp , all nations of the earth . Labour draws forth its delicate iron - thread , and stretching it from city to city , and from province to province , constructs a chariot on ...
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... mountainous countries , they have a waving or bending form , their different degrees of inclination determining the external shape or con- tour of a district . II . VEGETABLES . - Vegetables or Plants are not mere in- organic substances ...
... mountainous countries , they have a waving or bending form , their different degrees of inclination determining the external shape or con- tour of a district . II . VEGETABLES . - Vegetables or Plants are not mere in- organic substances ...
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... mountains , I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life ; and passing from one thought to ... mountain came to me , and taking me by the hand , said , with a look of compassion and affability , " Mirza , I have heard ...
... mountains , I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life ; and passing from one thought to ... mountain came to me , and taking me by the hand , said , with a look of compassion and affability , " Mirza , I have heard ...
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... mountains , when we recede from them , appear to sink below the horizon , commencing with the base ; and why , on the contrary , when we approach them , do these objects show first their summits , then their middle , and last of all ...
... mountains , when we recede from them , appear to sink below the horizon , commencing with the base ; and why , on the contrary , when we approach them , do these objects show first their summits , then their middle , and last of all ...
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... mountain , and hold a plumb- line near it , we find that the ball of the plumb - line is drawn slightly towards the mountain ; showing clearly that an attraction does exist . Under the action of gravity , bodies fall to the earth in ...
... mountain , and hold a plumb- line near it , we find that the ball of the plumb - line is drawn slightly towards the mountain ; showing clearly that an attraction does exist . Under the action of gravity , bodies fall to the earth in ...
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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!