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... visit was paid that afternoon , to another labourer for a few shillings a week ; and , although he was not an illustrious example , like the last , he also attested to the principle we are elucidating . He , poor glorious labourer , was a.
... visit was paid that afternoon , to another labourer for a few shillings a week ; and , although he was not an illustrious example , like the last , he also attested to the principle we are elucidating . He , poor glorious labourer , was a.
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... principles of Mechanics , and the properties of falling bodies ; ignorance of Optics , and of Electricity ; all of these are connected with the events of daily life . Circumstances have frequently occurred in which igno- rance has been ...
... principles of Mechanics , and the properties of falling bodies ; ignorance of Optics , and of Electricity ; all of these are connected with the events of daily life . Circumstances have frequently occurred in which igno- rance has been ...
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... principles of chemical philosophy , and has received much , and will yet receive more improvement from their appli- cation . Observation teaches us that there is method even in the stirring of a kitchen or parlour fire ; this is quite a ...
... principles of chemical philosophy , and has received much , and will yet receive more improvement from their appli- cation . Observation teaches us that there is method even in the stirring of a kitchen or parlour fire ; this is quite a ...
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... principle , which is plain enough , the following code of laws has been laid down for the management of the fire- place : - Never stir a fire when fresh coals are put on , par- ticularly when they are very small , because they im ...
... principle , which is plain enough , the following code of laws has been laid down for the management of the fire- place : - Never stir a fire when fresh coals are put on , par- ticularly when they are very small , because they im ...
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... principles readily to the cases which occur , has within itself an inexhaustible source of pure and exciting contem- plations : one would think that Shakspeare had such a mind in view , when he describes a contemplative man as finding ...
... principles readily to the cases which occur , has within itself an inexhaustible source of pure and exciting contem- plations : one would think that Shakspeare had such a mind in view , when he describes a contemplative man as finding ...
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Page 197 - If Thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure, Stranger ! henceforth be warned; and know that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness ; that he who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used ; that thought with him Is in its infancy.
Page 192 - ... -by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged, on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest, who had been destined before heaven and earth were created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should have passed away.
Page 232 - And fades the grass away. 3 Our life contains a thousand springs, And dies if one be gone : Strange ! that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long.
Page 160 - MAN, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much, as his observations on the order of nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more.
Page 223 - Alas! — how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world in vain had tried And sorrow but more closely tied; That stood the storm when waves were rough Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships that have gone down at sea When heaven was all tranquillity!
Page 81 - Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books.
Page 81 - You make him a denizen of all nations, a contemporary of all ages. The world has been created for him. It is hardly possible but the character should take a higher and better tone from the constant habit of associating in thought with a class of thinkers, to say the least of it, above the average of humanity.
Page 193 - ... gratitude, passion ; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker ; but he set his foot on the neck of his king.
Page 81 - If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its Ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
Page 34 - I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride; Of Him who walked in glory and in joy Following his plough, along the mountain-side: By our own spirits are we deified: We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.