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... . - Eyes of the Bird and the Horse , Mathematics of Bee - Hives , The Gastric Juice , Feet of the Camel , Horse , and Rein - Deer , 136 137 138 139 II . - MISCELLANEOUS PASSAGES CONNECTED WITH NATURAL HISTORY , X CONTENTS .
... . - Eyes of the Bird and the Horse , Mathematics of Bee - Hives , The Gastric Juice , Feet of the Camel , Horse , and Rein - Deer , 136 137 138 139 II . - MISCELLANEOUS PASSAGES CONNECTED WITH NATURAL HISTORY , X CONTENTS .
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... Feet of the Camel , Horse , and Rein - Deer , Mechanics of Muscular Power , Correspondence between Living Properties and Mechanical Proper- Sensibility and Action of the Stomach , Changes in the Material of the Animal Body during Life ...
... Feet of the Camel , Horse , and Rein - Deer , Mechanics of Muscular Power , Correspondence between Living Properties and Mechanical Proper- Sensibility and Action of the Stomach , Changes in the Material of the Animal Body during Life ...
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... feet , covering it with ruins ? Has it not its sym- pathies and antipathies in those mysterious elective affinities of the different molecules of matter which chemistry investi- gates ? Has it not the powerful attractions of bodies to ...
... feet , covering it with ruins ? Has it not its sym- pathies and antipathies in those mysterious elective affinities of the different molecules of matter which chemistry investi- gates ? Has it not the powerful attractions of bodies to ...
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... feet into the earth - has been proved in many in- stances . Meteoric stones are in some instances thrown from dark clouds suddenly formed in a clear sky , and fall with a noise resembling thunder . Whole districts have thus occa- In the ...
... feet into the earth - has been proved in many in- stances . Meteoric stones are in some instances thrown from dark clouds suddenly formed in a clear sky , and fall with a noise resembling thunder . Whole districts have thus occa- In the ...
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... feet , but even on the boundless grassy plains , the Llanos of Venezuela , and on the sea - shore beneath the ever clear sky of Cumana . This phe- nomenon was often rendered especially beautiful by the passage of light fleecy clouds ...
... feet , but even on the boundless grassy plains , the Llanos of Venezuela , and on the sea - shore beneath the ever clear sky of Cumana . This phe- nomenon was often rendered especially beautiful by the passage of light fleecy clouds ...
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Page 309 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Page 352 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 356 - Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate : 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods...
Page 340 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 37 - Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Page 155 - And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars ; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth : for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads ; for your redemption draweth...
Page 358 - Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day.
Page 340 - tis nobler in the mind, to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune ; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them ? — To die, — to sleep, — No more ; and, by a sleep, to say we end The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, — 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die ; — to sleep : — To sleep ! perchance to dream : — ay, there's the rub ; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this...
Page 333 - Heathfield, recently ennobled for his memorable defence of Gibraltar against the fleets and armies of France and Spain. The long procession was closed by the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of the realm, by the great dignitaries, and by the brothers and sons of the King. Last of all came the Prince of Wales, conspicuous by his fine person and noble bearing.
Page 332 - Strafford had for a moment awed and melted a victorious party inflamed with just resentment; the hall where Charles had confronted the High Court of Justice with the placid courage which has half redeemed his fame.