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... stones came rolling down from the diluvium in the course of the afternoon . They were of different qualities from the sandstone below , and from one another ; and , what was more wonderful still , they were all rounded and water- worn ...
... stones came rolling down from the diluvium in the course of the afternoon . They were of different qualities from the sandstone below , and from one another ; and , what was more wonderful still , they were all rounded and water- worn ...
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... stone . HUGH MILLER . FINDING HIS FIRST FOSSILS . 1. The immense masses of diluvium which we had to clear away ... stones , hyperstenes , porphyries , bituminous shales , and micaceous schists . In short , the young geologist , had he ...
... stone . HUGH MILLER . FINDING HIS FIRST FOSSILS . 1. The immense masses of diluvium which we had to clear away ... stones , hyperstenes , porphyries , bituminous shales , and micaceous schists . In short , the young geologist , had he ...
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... stones , somewhat like the heads of boarding - pikes , were occasionally picked up ; and that in his father's days the country people called them thunderbolts , and deemed them of sovereign efficacy in curing bewitched cattle . Our ...
... stones , somewhat like the heads of boarding - pikes , were occasionally picked up ; and that in his father's days the country people called them thunderbolts , and deemed them of sovereign efficacy in curing bewitched cattle . Our ...
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... stone a belemnite , and became acquainted with enough of its history to know that it once formed part of a variety of cuttle - fish long since extinct . - Old Red Sand- stone . THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION . Oh ! blest of Heaven , whom ...
... stone a belemnite , and became acquainted with enough of its history to know that it once formed part of a variety of cuttle - fish long since extinct . - Old Red Sand- stone . THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION . Oh ! blest of Heaven , whom ...
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... stones , which some think to have been the work of earlier races still , they offered their sacrifices , performed their magical incanta- tions , and worked themselves up into a religious frenzy which the people , and probably they ...
... stones , which some think to have been the work of earlier races still , they offered their sacrifices , performed their magical incanta- tions , and worked themselves up into a religious frenzy which the people , and probably they ...
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Page 354 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Page 282 - And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul, She all in every part ; why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined, So obvious and so easy to be quench'd?
Page 75 - There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Glad Hearts! without reproach or blot Who do thy work, and know it not: Oh!
Page 275 - ... resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of 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.
Page 77 - Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The confidence of reason give ; And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live ! 1805.
Page 311 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Page 201 - neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus, with the host of heaven, came, And lo ! creation widened in man's view.
Page 76 - The task, in smoother walks to stray; But thee I now would serve more strictly, if I may. Through no disturbance of my soul, Or strong compunction in me wrought, I supplicate for thy control; But in the quietness of thought: Me this unchartered freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires: My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same.
Page 201 - Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came; And lo, Creation widened in man's view.
Page 76 - Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through thee, Are fresh and strong.