On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Occasional Remarks on the Laws, Customs, Manners, and Opinions of Various Nations, Volume 3G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823 - Nature |
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... tion . As the motion is constant during the day , this reason is insufficient : unless we can suppose , that the organs of generation are in a constant state of irritable excitement . But these instances are exceptions to the general ...
... tion . As the motion is constant during the day , this reason is insufficient : unless we can suppose , that the organs of generation are in a constant state of irritable excitement . But these instances are exceptions to the general ...
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... tion of plants , near which they grow , I have had many opportunities of observing ; at first with doubt , but at length with an assurance entirely amounting to conviction , III . Some of the ancients imagined vegetables to have souls ...
... tion of plants , near which they grow , I have had many opportunities of observing ; at first with doubt , but at length with an assurance entirely amounting to conviction , III . Some of the ancients imagined vegetables to have souls ...
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... tion , than the circumstance , that when this plant is propagated by cuttings , those cuttings will produce roots of the same quality ; but when it is propagated by seed , scarcely two roots resemble each other in form , in size ...
... tion , than the circumstance , that when this plant is propagated by cuttings , those cuttings will produce roots of the same quality ; but when it is propagated by seed , scarcely two roots resemble each other in form , in size ...
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... tion of sea water . II . Contrasts , too , may be observed in the relative fecundities of animals and vegetables . An orange tree generally yields from 1,500 to 2,400 oranges ; but an elm , living a hundred years , produces not less ...
... tion of sea water . II . Contrasts , too , may be observed in the relative fecundities of animals and vegetables . An orange tree generally yields from 1,500 to 2,400 oranges ; but an elm , living a hundred years , produces not less ...
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... tion lasts , prevent any material accession to public , or to private happiness . To suppose , that happiness can exist with the present system of education , is as absurd , as the idea , that a comet , because its course is eccentric ...
... tion lasts , prevent any material accession to public , or to private happiness . To suppose , that happiness can exist with the present system of education , is as absurd , as the idea , that a comet , because its course is eccentric ...
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Page 259 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds ; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Page 260 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 208 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Page 261 - But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless ; Minions of...
Page 314 - Tunes her nocturnal note : thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 215 - There's a bliss beyond all that the minstrel has told, When two, that are link'd in one heavenly tie, With heart never changing and brow never cold, Love on through all ills, and love on till they die...
Page 254 - O Solitude, romantic maid ! Whether by nodding towers you tread ; Or haunt the desert's trackless gloom, Or hover o'er the yawning tomb ; Or climb the Andes' clifted side, Or by the Nile's coy source abide : Or, starting from your half-year's sleep, From Hecla view the thawing deep : Or, at the purple dawn of day, Tadmor's marble wastes survey." observing,
Page 252 - I praise the Frenchman*, his remark was shrewd—. How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude ! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper — solitude is sweet.
Page 76 - Oh ! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle. To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die ! Now too — the joy most like divine Of all I ever dreamt or knew.
Page 321 - IX. 0 how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even...