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... extent is such as to preclude all reasonable chance of working them out . the two , the limestone appears the older formation . It covers above 20 acres of the comparatively flat land which forms the south - east extremity , and its ...
... extent is such as to preclude all reasonable chance of working them out . the two , the limestone appears the older formation . It covers above 20 acres of the comparatively flat land which forms the south - east extremity , and its ...
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... extent of cave formed under its principal peak . With the exception of the plane already described , on which the settle- ment is built , the sea - front of Norfolk Island is everywhere high and precipitous . Even the gullies , which ...
... extent of cave formed under its principal peak . With the exception of the plane already described , on which the settle- ment is built , the sea - front of Norfolk Island is everywhere high and precipitous . Even the gullies , which ...
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... fishing . The banks round the island extend above 20 miles from it in all directions , and fish are caught over nearly the whole extent . One of the greatest defects of Norfolk Island is , 1845. ] Population of Criminals .
... fishing . The banks round the island extend above 20 miles from it in all directions , and fish are caught over nearly the whole extent . One of the greatest defects of Norfolk Island is , 1845. ] Population of Criminals .
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... extent of 700 , were at one time sent down to make a pier , and some other works deemed requisite ; but they were removed in 1797 , shortly after the severe earthquakes of that year , which are said to have materially altered the views ...
... extent of 700 , were at one time sent down to make a pier , and some other works deemed requisite ; but they were removed in 1797 , shortly after the severe earthquakes of that year , which are said to have materially altered the views ...
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... extent owned by each , three only being above the value of 50l . per annum : 75 proprietors of 1,086 houses , and the number owned by each . The annual value of the houses— 21 per cent . being rented at or under £ 2 per annum . 42 ...
... extent owned by each , three only being above the value of 50l . per annum : 75 proprietors of 1,086 houses , and the number owned by each . The annual value of the houses— 21 per cent . being rented at or under £ 2 per annum . 42 ...
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Page 147 - Cannot be ill, cannot be good : if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature...
Page 147 - This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success Commencing in a truth ? — I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion...
Page 139 - The immortal mind, that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook : And of those demons that are found In fire, air, flood, or under ground, Whose power hath a true consent With planet, or with element. Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In scepter'd pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine; Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskin'd stage.
Page 147 - What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize: A better would you fix?
Page 140 - I will conclude with that which hath rationem totius, which is, that it disposeth the constitution of the mind not to be fixed or settled in the defects thereof, but still to be capable and susceptible of growth and reformation.
Page 139 - Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear, With thrice-great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold The immortal mind, that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Page 140 - The good parts he hath he will learn to show to the full, and use them dexterously, but not much to increase them : the faults he hath he will learn how to hide and colour them, but not much to amend them : like an ill mower, that mows on still, and never whets his scythe : whereas with the learned man it fares otherwise, that he doth ever intermix the correction and amendment of his mind with the use and employment thereof.
Page 147 - tis the price of toil; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil, The knave deserves it, when he tempts the main, Where folly fights for kings, or dives for gain.
Page 140 - Nay further, in general and in sum, certain it is that veritas and bonitas differ but as the seal and the print ; for truth prints goodness, and they be the clouds of error which descend in the storms of passions and perturbations.
Page 139 - Epictetus, who went forth one day and saw a woman weeping for her pitcher of earth that was broken, and went forth the next day and saw a woman weeping for her son that was dead, and thereupon said, Heri vidi fragilem frangi, hodie vidi mortalem mori.