Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 49John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1860 |
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... miles to the depth of one mile . Shafhäut computed that the mineral matter suspended in the ocean was equal to double the Himalayas in bulk . Yet this mass is diffused through- out the abyss without increasing its volume , for soluble ...
... miles to the depth of one mile . Shafhäut computed that the mineral matter suspended in the ocean was equal to double the Himalayas in bulk . Yet this mass is diffused through- out the abyss without increasing its volume , for soluble ...
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... miles in length , breadth un- known , and whitening the sea so com- pletely that it looked like a plain covered with snow . When a tub was filled with the water , little luminous particles were seen dancing to and fro , and the vessel ...
... miles in length , breadth un- known , and whitening the sea so com- pletely that it looked like a plain covered with snow . When a tub was filled with the water , little luminous particles were seen dancing to and fro , and the vessel ...
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... miles from our earth , should lift the waters of the ocean and compel huge ripples to course across its surface in regular succession . The Man in the Moon - for to him may we not ascribe this amiable service ? -deserves more thanks ...
... miles from our earth , should lift the waters of the ocean and compel huge ripples to course across its surface in regular succession . The Man in the Moon - for to him may we not ascribe this amiable service ? -deserves more thanks ...
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... miles an hour -it assumed the decided auguries in favor of the unvailed appearance of an alabaster wall , or rather of a world in the west . But in tracing cur- cataract four or five miles across , and about rents we can not always ...
... miles an hour -it assumed the decided auguries in favor of the unvailed appearance of an alabaster wall , or rather of a world in the west . But in tracing cur- cataract four or five miles across , and about rents we can not always ...
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... miles . Its velocity in the Gulf of Florida is about seventy - eight miles a day , but its pace dwindles down to a sober flow of ten before it reaches the Azores . Its average performance is about thirty - eight miles in the four - and ...
... miles . Its velocity in the Gulf of Florida is about seventy - eight miles a day , but its pace dwindles down to a sober flow of ten before it reaches the Azores . Its average performance is about thirty - eight miles in the four - and ...
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Page 52 - The outward shows of sky and earth, Of hill and valley he has viewed ; And impulses of deeper birth Have come to him in solitude. In common things that round us lie Some random truths he can impart, — The harvest of a quiet eye That broods and sleeps on his own heart.
Page 34 - And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
Page 397 - Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
Page 56 - Über allen Gipfeln Ist Ruh; In allen Wipfeln Spürest du Kaum einen Hauch; Die Vögelein schweigen im Walde. Warte nur, balde Ruhest du auch.
Page 174 - But the prophet, which shall presume to speaK a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
Page 397 - Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth ; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
Page 57 - All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Oft in my waking dreams do I Live o'er again that happy hour, When midway on the mount I lay, Beside the ruined tower.
Page 35 - I wanted warmth and colour which I found In Lancelot — now I see thee what thou art, Thou art the highest and most human too, Not Lancelot, nor another. Is there none Will tell the King I love him tho
Page 32 - In love, if love be love, if love be ours, Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers : Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all. ' " It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.
Page 42 - Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain : and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.