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... nature , in striking harmony with the solemnity of the scene . A few minutes more , and all was over ; and the vast company , uncovered , paid the closing mark of respect to the ashes of the mighty dead . A touch , ing scene occurred at ...
... nature , in striking harmony with the solemnity of the scene . A few minutes more , and all was over ; and the vast company , uncovered , paid the closing mark of respect to the ashes of the mighty dead . A touch , ing scene occurred at ...
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... nature has given us difficulties with which to cope , she has not left us to be wholly over- come . " " If , " says Dr. Thomas Brown , in his remarks on the classifying principle , " if she has placed us in a labyrinth , she has at the ...
... nature has given us difficulties with which to cope , she has not left us to be wholly over- come . " " If , " says Dr. Thomas Brown , in his remarks on the classifying principle , " if she has placed us in a labyrinth , she has at the ...
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... nature , " as a principle of the mind within , -it exists in Palæontological science as a principle of nature itself , as a principle palpably externa ! to the mind . It is a marvellous fact , whose full meaning we can as yet but ...
... nature , " as a principle of the mind within , -it exists in Palæontological science as a principle of nature itself , as a principle palpably externa ! to the mind . It is a marvellous fact , whose full meaning we can as yet but ...
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... Nature . " The plants we find arranged by the poet on the simple but very inadequate principle of size and show . Herbs are placed first , as lowest and least conspicuous in the scale ; then flowers ; and , finally , trees . Among the ...
... Nature . " The plants we find arranged by the poet on the simple but very inadequate principle of size and show . Herbs are placed first , as lowest and least conspicuous in the scale ; then flowers ; and , finally , trees . Among the ...
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... nature and the Cuvierian arrangement . The line representative of the Radiata ought perhaps to have been elevated a little higher than either of its two neighbors . between the " Inferior " and " Great Oolites , 46 THE PALEONTOLOGICAL.
... nature and the Cuvierian arrangement . The line representative of the Radiata ought perhaps to have been elevated a little higher than either of its two neighbors . between the " Inferior " and " Great Oolites , 46 THE PALEONTOLOGICAL.
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Page 229 - Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written; Which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
Page 37 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 138 - So careful of the type?' but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, 'A thousand types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go. Thou makest thine appeal to me: I bring to life, I bring to death: The spirit does but mean the breath: I know no more.
Page 233 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens...
Page 262 - Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the Sons of God shouted for joy?
Page 225 - Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing ? And one of them shall not fall to the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore ; ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Page 138 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Page 198 - said God ; and forthwith Light Ethereal, first of things, quintessence pure, Sprung from the Deep, and from her native East To journey through the aery gloom began, Sphered in a radiant cloud — for yet the Sun Was not; she in a cloudy tabernacle Sojourned the while.
Page 210 - Sing heavenly Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...