The Western Literary Magazine, and Journal of Education, Science, Arts, and MoralsGeorge Brewster G. Brewster, 1858 |
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... natural or acquired ability without the slightest tincture of sound morality - with- out solidity or substance with very little more method than is dis- cernable in the incoherent ravings of stark madness — without even skill in the ...
... natural or acquired ability without the slightest tincture of sound morality - with- out solidity or substance with very little more method than is dis- cernable in the incoherent ravings of stark madness — without even skill in the ...
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... Natural Philosophy , Chemistry , Mathematics , Astronomy , Geology , and Minerology , are each the fertile source of interest to the careful investigator . The treasures of each are almost exhaustless , and as valuable as they are ...
... Natural Philosophy , Chemistry , Mathematics , Astronomy , Geology , and Minerology , are each the fertile source of interest to the careful investigator . The treasures of each are almost exhaustless , and as valuable as they are ...
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... nature , are to be found , scattered here and there around the pathway of life , like the prowling Arab of the desert , -ready to rush upon the defenceless , and wrench away his last pittance , and carry unpitying desolation to the ...
... nature , are to be found , scattered here and there around the pathway of life , like the prowling Arab of the desert , -ready to rush upon the defenceless , and wrench away his last pittance , and carry unpitying desolation to the ...
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... nature intently , to examine her whole vegetable kingdom for the sanitary virtues of her trees , and herbs , and plants , and roots , and flowers — to descend into the bosom of the earth , and analyze her metallic and mineral resources ...
... nature intently , to examine her whole vegetable kingdom for the sanitary virtues of her trees , and herbs , and plants , and roots , and flowers — to descend into the bosom of the earth , and analyze her metallic and mineral resources ...
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... nature is here , as esewhere , binding , and no powerful results ever ensue from the trivial exercise of high endowments . The finest mind , when thus destitute of a fixed purpose , passes away without leaving permanent traces of its ...
... nature is here , as esewhere , binding , and no powerful results ever ensue from the trivial exercise of high endowments . The finest mind , when thus destitute of a fixed purpose , passes away without leaving permanent traces of its ...
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Page 161 - Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature. Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of Ocean on his winding shore...
Page 255 - And the children of Israel did so and gathered, some more, some less. And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
Page 186 - Support, and ornament of Virtue's cause. There stands the messenger of truth : there stands The legate of the skies ! — His theme divine, His office sacred, his credentials clear. By him the violated law speaks out Its thunders ; and by him, in strains as sweet As angels use, the Gospel whispers peace.
Page 170 - For the source of glory uncovers his face, And the brightness o'erflows unbounded space; And we drink, as we go, the luminous tides In our ruddy air and our blooming sides: Lo, yonder the living splendors play; Away, on our joyous path, away!
Page 170 - Look, look, through our glittering ranks afar, In the infinite azure, star after star, How they brighten and bloom as they swiftly pass ! How the verdure runs o'er each rolling mass! And the path of the gentle winds is seen, Where the small waves dance, and the young woods lean.
Page 287 - Caesar in dominion ; the first found disgrace, the second disgust, the last ingratitude, and each destruction. To some she is more kind, but not less cruel ; she hands them her cup, and they drink even to stupefaction, until they doubt whether they are men with Philip, or dream that they are gods with Alexander. On some she smiles as...
Page 28 - Look then abroad through Nature, to the range of planets suns and adamantine spheres, wheeling unshaken through the void immense : and speak, O man! does this capacious scene with half that kindling majesty dilate thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose refulgent from the stroke of...
Page 186 - I say the pulpit (in the sober use Of its legitimate, peculiar powers) Must stand acknowledged, while the world shall stand, The most important and effectual guard, Support and ornament of virtue's cause.