The Edinburgh Review, Bind 48;Bind 82A. and C. Black, 1845 |
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... attempt to bring illustration from a department of ' science , on which , at present , much doubt and obscurity rest . ' But if his principle be insecure , why build upon it a most com- plicated dogmatic system ? He was not called upon ...
... attempt to bring illustration from a department of ' science , on which , at present , much doubt and obscurity rest . ' But if his principle be insecure , why build upon it a most com- plicated dogmatic system ? He was not called upon ...
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... attempting the sky . We cannot change our place without producing an apparent change of place in all the fixed objects around us ; and if we for- get our own motion , or are unconscious of it , all these objects appear to move - the ...
... attempting the sky . We cannot change our place without producing an apparent change of place in all the fixed objects around us ; and if we for- get our own motion , or are unconscious of it , all these objects appear to move - the ...
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... attempt at reasoning on this point is his first great physical blunder . Neither can we assume , with him , that the nebular heat could be drawn towards the centre by any law of attraction ; for that would be to mistake the nature of ...
... attempt at reasoning on this point is his first great physical blunder . Neither can we assume , with him , that the nebular heat could be drawn towards the centre by any law of attraction ; for that would be to mistake the nature of ...
Side 22
... attempted ) from the condensation of a nebula , and to show that planetary rings must be thrown off exactly where we ... attempt ; he knew his materials far too weil . All we have to suppose is this - that the revolving mass , during the ...
... attempted ) from the condensation of a nebula , and to show that planetary rings must be thrown off exactly where we ... attempt ; he knew his materials far too weil . All we have to suppose is this - that the revolving mass , during the ...
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... attempt to construct a scale out of the order in which a child has arranged the organic fragments it may have picked up from a shingle beach . Some of the old species are found straggling through the upper system ; but , as a group ...
... attempt to construct a scale out of the order in which a child has arranged the organic fragments it may have picked up from a shingle beach . Some of the old species are found straggling through the upper system ; but , as a group ...
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Side 106 - Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
Side 504 - he is a middle.sized, spare man, about forty years old, of a brown complexion, and dark-brown coloured hair, but wears a wig ; a hooked nose, a sharp chin, grey eyes, and a large mole near his mouth...
Side 79 - My substance, was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes, did see my substance, yet being imperfect ; and, in thy book, all my members, were written, which, in continuance, were fashioned, when, as yet, there was none of them.
Side 258 - ... that this agreement is not to be construed to the prejudice of any claim which either of the two high contracting parties may have to any part of the said country...
Side 202 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Side 425 - I was an absolute pedant : when I talked my best, I quoted Horace ; when I aimed at being facetious, I quoted Martial ; and when I had a mind to be a fine gentleman, I talked Ovid.
Side 37 - O, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made them and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Side 277 - And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire ; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
Side 437 - The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.
Side 449 - Talk often, but never long ; in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers. Pay your own reckoning, but do not treat the whole company, — this being one of the very few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay.