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... less satis- factory . It will only be necessary to sup- pose that the priests possessed and kept secret the knowledge which was required for operating their wonders . " Nor should we fail 2 ELUCIDATION OF ANCIENT PRODIGIES AND MAGIC .
... less satis- factory . It will only be necessary to sup- pose that the priests possessed and kept secret the knowledge which was required for operating their wonders . " Nor should we fail 2 ELUCIDATION OF ANCIENT PRODIGIES AND MAGIC .
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... less previous preparation , the collection of plants , minerals , & c . the use of certain words , sometimes in one lan- guage , sometimes in another , according to the nation to which the temple belonged , + " Thaumaturgical " and ...
... less previous preparation , the collection of plants , minerals , & c . the use of certain words , sometimes in one lan- guage , sometimes in another , according to the nation to which the temple belonged , + " Thaumaturgical " and ...
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... less girl , the Hottentot Venus , & c . If you have a taste for moustrosities , the case is otherwise . V. THE NEW WIDE STREETS . Tacitus says that the people of Rome charged the Emperor Nero with having widened the streets after the ...
... less girl , the Hottentot Venus , & c . If you have a taste for moustrosities , the case is otherwise . V. THE NEW WIDE STREETS . Tacitus says that the people of Rome charged the Emperor Nero with having widened the streets after the ...
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... less distance , stopping at inter- vals at the bends of the channel . The bias of the stream is there obliquely deflected to the opposite side , while the superior momentum of the rolling drift carries it into the stiller water beyond ...
... less distance , stopping at inter- vals at the bends of the channel . The bias of the stream is there obliquely deflected to the opposite side , while the superior momentum of the rolling drift carries it into the stiller water beyond ...
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... less space than either of them did before ; the in- crease of depth and velocity , caused by the greater volume , compensating for the diminished surface . “ The Mississippi is a mile and a half wide at its junction with the Missouri ...
... less space than either of them did before ; the in- crease of depth and velocity , caused by the greater volume , compensating for the diminished surface . “ The Mississippi is a mile and a half wide at its junction with the Missouri ...
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Page 278 - My sister ! my sweet sister ! if a name Dearer and purer were, it should be thine ; Mountains and seas divide us, but I claim No tears, but tenderness to answer mine : Go where I will, to me thou art the same — A loved regret which I would not resign. There yet are two things in my destiny, — A world to roam through, and a home with thee.
Page 232 - But how much nobler will be the Sovereign's boast, when he shall have it to say that he found Law dear, and left it cheap ; found it a sealed book, left it a living letter ; found it the patrimony of the rich, left it the inheritance of the poor ; found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression, left it the staff of Honesty and the shield of Innocence...
Page 277 - But in all this the recollection of bitterness, and more especially of recent and more home desolation, which must accompany me through life, have preyed upon me here; and neither the music of the shepherd, the crashing of the avalanche, nor the torrent, the mountain, the glacier, the forest, nor the cloud, have for...
Page 278 - I feel almost at times as I have felt In happy childhood ; trees, and flowers, and brooks, Which do remember me of where I dwelt, Ere my young mind was sacrificed to books, Come as of yore upon me, and can melt My heart with recognition of their looks ; And even at moments I could think I see Some living thing to love — but none like thee.
Page 278 - The gift, — a fate, or will, that walk'd astray ; And I at times have found the struggle hard, And thought of shaking off my bonds of clay : But now I fain would for a time survive, If but to see what next can well arrive.
Page 79 - On this she answered under much agitation, " Oh, dear son, thou art dead ! " He instantly awoke and thought no more of his dream, until a few days after he received a letter from his father inquiring very anxiously after his health, in consequence of a frightful dream his mother had on the same night in which the dream now mentioned occurred to him. She...
Page 270 - ... are generally so formed as to admit of no modification ; and as we could not agree when younger, we should with difficulty do so now.
Page 79 - ... and finding nobody out of bed, went directly to the bed-room of his parents. He then said to his mother, whom he found awake, " Mother, I am going a long journey, and am come to bid you good-bye.
Page 273 - His head was remarkably small*, — so much so as to be rather out of proportion with his face. The forehead, though a little too narrow, was high, and appeared more so from his having his hair (to preserve it, as he said) shaved over the temples; while the glossy, dark-brown curls, clustering over his head, gave the finish to its beauty. When to this is added, that his nose, though handsomely, was rather thickly shaped, that his teeth were white and regular, and his complexion colourless, as good...
Page 260 - I am sure my bones would not rest in an English grave, or my clay mix with the earth of that country. I believe the thought would drive me mad on my deathbed, could I suppose that any of my friends would be base enough to convey my carcass back to your soil. I would not even feed your worms, if I could help it...