Recreative Science: A Record and Remembrancer of Intellectual Observation. 1850, المجلد 1

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Groombridge and Sons, 1860

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الصفحة 333 - Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness...
الصفحة 10 - There's a dance of leaves in that aspen bower, There's a titter of winds in that beechen tree, There's a smile on the fruit and a smile on the flower, And a laugh from the brook that runs to the sea.
الصفحة 59 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
الصفحة 189 - An Account of a Method of Copying Paintings upon Glass, and of making Profiles by the Agency of Light upon Nitrate of Silver; with Observations by H. Davy.
الصفحة 161 - GOD might have made the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak-tree, and the cedar-tree, Without a flower at all.
الصفحة 58 - I may have but a minute to speak to you. My dear, be a good man - be virtuous - be religious - be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here.
الصفحة 59 - So it being given unto him, he poised it in his hand, and felt along upon the edge of it with his thumb, to see if it was keen ; and smiling, spake unto Mr. Sheriff, saying, " This is a sharp medicine, but it will cure all diseases.
الصفحة 97 - Through the middle of this space, ran a line as straight as if it had been cut with a knife, and evidently formed by a natural process of separation : for it even proceeded through the centre of the snout, to the terminal pointed process, at the root of which it turned off on the right side ; so that the least effort of the animal was sufficient to afford it a passage.
الصفحة 221 - Whose savage craft, as Nature taught, designs A mazy web of death, the filmy lines, That form thy circling labyrinth, enfold Each thoughtless fly, that wanders near thy hold, Sad victim of thy guile; nor aught avail His silken wings, nor coat of glossy mail, Nor varying hues of azure, jet, or gold...
الصفحة 257 - Tunguragua, one of the peaks of the Andes, flung out torrents of mud which dammed up rivers, opened new lakes, and in valleys of a thousand feet wide made deposits of six hundred feet deep.

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