The Living Age, Volume 118E. Littell & Company, 1873 |
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... interest and anticipation on the interspaces in the map of natural knowledge , which would be neglected so long as the different provinces were held to be separate and independent kingdoms . In short , it would establish a sort of ...
... interest and anticipation on the interspaces in the map of natural knowledge , which would be neglected so long as the different provinces were held to be separate and independent kingdoms . In short , it would establish a sort of ...
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... interest of the theory . The same tendency to substitute spec- ulations for proof is seen in the physio- logy as well as in the psychology of the school . Even so vigorous and independ- ent a thinker as Dr. Maudesley cannot escape the ...
... interest of the theory . The same tendency to substitute spec- ulations for proof is seen in the physio- logy as well as in the psychology of the school . Even so vigorous and independ- ent a thinker as Dr. Maudesley cannot escape the ...
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... interest of the subject , would often make the mere reading a wearisome task . We only wish there were space at command to exemplify Sir Charles Bell's immense superiority in this respect . But all who are familiar with his essay will ...
... interest of the subject , would often make the mere reading a wearisome task . We only wish there were space at command to exemplify Sir Charles Bell's immense superiority in this respect . But all who are familiar with his essay will ...
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... face and gesture of individual figures , and the dramatic interest of the groups to which they belong . The names of Cimabue , Giotto , Orcagna , and Mas- saccio , of Bellini , Titian , Giorgione , and DARWIN ON EXPRESSION . 19.
... face and gesture of individual figures , and the dramatic interest of the groups to which they belong . The names of Cimabue , Giotto , Orcagna , and Mas- saccio , of Bellini , Titian , Giorgione , and DARWIN ON EXPRESSION . 19.
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... interest for Mr. Darwin . vaded are shadowed forth on her soft and Had he taken a truer and more compre - affectionate gestures . There is what an un- gentle countenance and in her simple and hensive view of the subject , instead of ...
... interest for Mr. Darwin . vaded are shadowed forth on her soft and Had he taken a truer and more compre - affectionate gestures . There is what an un- gentle countenance and in her simple and hensive view of the subject , instead of ...
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Page 519 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Page 316 - My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it.
Page 45 - All things are delivered unto me of my Father, and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
Page 466 - But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
Page 466 - I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps, the establishment of my fame.
Page 318 - Earth and moon were gone And suns and universes ceased to be And thou wert left alone Every Existence would exist in thee...
Page 96 - After these two noble fruits of friendship (peace in the affections and support of the judgment) followeth the last fruit, which is like the pomegranate, full of many kernels. I mean aid and bearing a part in all actions and occasions.
Page 316 - I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven; and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low, I shouldn't have thought of it.
Page 318 - There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou — THOU art Being and Breath, And what THOU art may never be destroyed.
Page 466 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.