Advanced Reading Book: Literary and ScientificThomas Constable and Company, 1860 - 432 من الصفحات |
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... effect . " But then a fourth might exclaim , — " All this would not be sufficient ; if I run for a quarter of a mile I am out of breath ; how are birds so long - winded , that they can go at so great a rate and for so long a time ...
... effect . " But then a fourth might exclaim , — " All this would not be sufficient ; if I run for a quarter of a mile I am out of breath ; how are birds so long - winded , that they can go at so great a rate and for so long a time ...
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... effects is when the background is so dark that the birds are only seen in silvery whiteness , flashing their under- plumage upon us . " " 1 There is another bird belonging to the same order , on which I would gladly dwell , the Curlew ...
... effects is when the background is so dark that the birds are only seen in silvery whiteness , flashing their under- plumage upon us . " " 1 There is another bird belonging to the same order , on which I would gladly dwell , the Curlew ...
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... effects , are called non - material . The definition of matter , indeed , may be , that it is subject to the law of gravitation ; or , speaking of terrestrial matter , that it has weight . Thus gold , water , and air are material ...
... effects , are called non - material . The definition of matter , indeed , may be , that it is subject to the law of gravitation ; or , speaking of terrestrial matter , that it has weight . Thus gold , water , and air are material ...
الصفحة 43
... effect of even a moun- tain must be quite insignificant . Small as it is , however , the delicacy of astronomical instruments has enabled us to detect it . By suspending a plumb - line , i.e. , a string with a heavy ball attached to it ...
... effect of even a moun- tain must be quite insignificant . Small as it is , however , the delicacy of astronomical instruments has enabled us to detect it . By suspending a plumb - line , i.e. , a string with a heavy ball attached to it ...
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... effect which was observed by the celebrated traveller Humboldt . Being stationed some miles distant from the great Falls of the river Orinoco in South America , he found that during the night the sound of the waterfall was so loud that ...
... effect which was observed by the celebrated traveller Humboldt . Being stationed some miles distant from the great Falls of the river Orinoco in South America , he found that during the night the sound of the waterfall was so loud that ...
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الصفحة 365 - NOW, my co-mates, and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp ? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court ? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons...
الصفحة 362 - I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must forever hide me. Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye : I feel my heart new open'd. O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes...
الصفحة 370 - With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons and their change, all please alike : Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
الصفحة 408 - In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part ; For the Gods see everywhere.
الصفحة 377 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple...
الصفحة 366 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.
الصفحة 360 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle : I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on ; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent That day he overcame the Nervii :l — Look ! in this place ran Cassius...
الصفحة 388 - ETHEREAL minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound ? Or while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground ? Thy nest which thou canst drop into at will, Those quivering wings composed, that music still ! ii.
الصفحة 363 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forc'd me Out of thy honest truth to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes : and thus far hear me, Cromwell $ And,— when I am forgotten, as I shall be ; And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention...
الصفحة 388 - Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home...