The Popular Educator, Volumen5John Cassell, 1856 |
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... REMAINS OF THE TERTIARIES . ALL the beds of the tertiary rocks have every appearance of having been deposited in a shallow sea , not far from coast lines , with much regularity , and in the course of many ages . The earlier beds are ...
... REMAINS OF THE TERTIARIES . ALL the beds of the tertiary rocks have every appearance of having been deposited in a shallow sea , not far from coast lines , with much regularity , and in the course of many ages . The earlier beds are ...
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... remains of birds are very rare in the Eocene cially those resembling the pelican , the sea lark , the owl , the woodcock , and the buzzard . There have been some few and rare instances in which the fossil skeletons of birds have been ...
... remains of birds are very rare in the Eocene cially those resembling the pelican , the sea lark , the owl , the woodcock , and the buzzard . There have been some few and rare instances in which the fossil skeletons of birds have been ...
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... remains of the Deinotherium are nowhere more common than in the valley of the Rhine , between Basle and Mayence , and they are also frequent in the valleys of the Jura . This animal was of a huge barrel - shaped body , and was twenty ...
... remains of the Deinotherium are nowhere more common than in the valley of the Rhine , between Basle and Mayence , and they are also frequent in the valleys of the Jura . This animal was of a huge barrel - shaped body , and was twenty ...
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... remains unanswered , I was induced to give it a trial , with the humble assurance ( though I have not studied Euclid ) that the application of a little common sense would furnish a correct answer . * I should like to know , by your ...
... remains unanswered , I was induced to give it a trial , with the humble assurance ( though I have not studied Euclid ) that the application of a little common sense would furnish a correct answer . * I should like to know , by your ...
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... remains , if an opening be made above the glottis , so that the air is breathed out through the larynx . It has also been determined in what part of the larynx the sound of the voice is produced . The experiments of MM . Bichat and ...
... remains , if an opening be made above the glottis , so that the air is breathed out through the larynx . It has also been determined in what part of the larynx the sound of the voice is produced . The experiments of MM . Bichat and ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 120 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Página 30 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up...
Página 262 - In its sublime research, philosophy May measure out the ocean deep, may count The sands or the sun's rays : but, God, for thee There is no weight nor measure ; none can mount Up to thy mysteries. Reason's brightest spark, Though kindled by thy light, in vain would try To trace thy counsels, infinite and dark ; And thought is lost ere thought can soar so high, Even like past moments in eternity.
Página 182 - Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners.
Página 182 - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates, the superiority must with some hesitation be allowed to Dryden.
Página 262 - A million torches lighted by thy hand Wander unwearied through the blue abyss : They own thy power, accomplish thy command. All gay with life, all eloquent with bliss What shall we call them? Piles of crystal light— A glorious company of golden streams — Lamps of celestial ether, burning bright — Suns lighting systems with their joyous beams ? But thou to these art as the noon to night.
Página 118 - I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul ; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres ; Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porcupine...
Página 182 - Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more : for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said, that, if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems.
Página 182 - For this reason he kept his pieces very long in his hands, while he considered and reconsidered them. The only poems which can be supposed to have been written with such regard to the times as might hasten their publication, were the two satires of ' Thirty- eight ; ' of which Dodsley told me, that they were brought to him by the author, that they might be fairly copied.