The British Quarterly Review, Volumen6Henry Allon Hodder and Stoughton, 1847 |
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... existence had been built up some of the most daring physical speculations that ever occupied the human intellect , and which had been called in to lend the power- ful aid of its presumed existence to a system of cosmogony , or rather of ...
... existence had been built up some of the most daring physical speculations that ever occupied the human intellect , and which had been called in to lend the power- ful aid of its presumed existence to a system of cosmogony , or rather of ...
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... existence of systems entirely unlike those which were known : their orbs so massed and crowded to- gether ; the space occupied by the aggregate of these so vastly surpassing all we had any example of ; and the forms assumed by some of ...
... existence of systems entirely unlike those which were known : their orbs so massed and crowded to- gether ; the space occupied by the aggregate of these so vastly surpassing all we had any example of ; and the forms assumed by some of ...
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... existence of these masses , and the change they seemed to be undergoing , afforded powerful support to the planetogeny of Laplace , they neither originated nor directed it . Without that support , it must of course stand or fall by its ...
... existence of these masses , and the change they seemed to be undergoing , afforded powerful support to the planetogeny of Laplace , they neither originated nor directed it . Without that support , it must of course stand or fall by its ...
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... existence of the nebulæ of Herschel , and the consequent unfoundedness of his speculations regarding them . More than any other , even that in Andromeda , it exhi- bited all the distinctive peculiarities which seemed to him to separate ...
... existence of the nebulæ of Herschel , and the consequent unfoundedness of his speculations regarding them . More than any other , even that in Andromeda , it exhi- bited all the distinctive peculiarities which seemed to him to separate ...
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... existence of the second was negatived by all observation ; and the dimensions , the path , and all connected with the assumed satellite , it was found , must be such as were utterly at variance with all elsewhere exhibited . The third ...
... existence of the second was negatived by all observation ; and the dimensions , the path , and all connected with the assumed satellite , it was found , must be such as were utterly at variance with all elsewhere exhibited . The third ...
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Página 508 - And his low head and crest, just one sharp ear bent back For my voice, and the other pricked out on his track; And one eye's black intelligence, — ever that glance O'er its white edge at me, his own master, askance. And the thick heavy spume-flakes which aye and anon His fierce lips shook upwards in galloping on. By Hasselt, Dirck groaned; and cried Joris, "Stay spur! Your Roos galloped bravely, the fault's not in her, We'll remember at Aix...
Página 473 - ... and it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.
Página 508 - Yet there is time!" At Aerschot up leaped of a sudden the sun, And against him the cattle stood black every one, To stare through the mist at us galloping past; And I saw my stout galloper Roland at last. With resolute shoulders, each butting away The haze, as some bluff river headland its spray...
Página 368 - And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
Página 497 - Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat — Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others, she lets us devote ; They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver, So much was theirs who so little allowed : How all our copper had gone for his service ! Rags, — were they purple, his heart had been proud...
Página 508 - Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened each stirrup, and set the pique right, Rebuckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit.
Página 507 - I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he ; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three ; " Good speed ! " cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew;
Página 62 - And when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write ? what sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents...
Página 184 - These dictates of reason men used, to call by the name of laws, but improperly; for they are but conclusions or theorems concerning what conduceth to the conservation and defence of themselves; whereas law, properly, is the word of him that by right hath command over others.
Página 509 - Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets