Lyrics on Life. By Frederic W. Farrar

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Macmillan and Company, 1859 - 165 pages

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Page 11 - Its suggestions may meet halfway many a latent doubt, and, like a light breeze, lift from the soul clouds that are gathering heavily, and threatening to settle down in wintry gloom on the summer of many a fair and promising young life.
Page 12 - Christ and other Masters. A Historical Inquiry into some of the Chief Parallelisms and Contrasts between Christianity and the Religious Systems of the Ancient World.
Page 17 - AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON THE LUNAR THEORY, with a Brief Sketch of the Problem up to the time of Newton. Second Edition, revised. Crown 8vo. cloth. 5*. 6d. Hemming. — AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON THE DIFFERENTIAL AND INTEGRAL CALCULUS, for the Use; of Colleges and Schools.
Page 12 - Examining Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Carlisle; Author of" The Life of the Rev. E. Bickersteth.
Page 19 - Prelector of St. John's College, Cambridge. AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON MECHANICS. For the Use of the Junior Classes at the University and the Higher Classes in Schools.
Page 8 - DR. CHAMBERS, FJ STEPHEN, ESQ. and TOM TAYLOR, ESQ. CONTENTS : — Plan of Female Colleges — The College and the Hospital — The Country Parish — Overwork and Anxiety — Dispensaries — District Visiting — Influence of Occupation on Health — Law as it affects the Poor — Everyday Work of Ladies — Teaching by Words — Sanitary Law — Workhouse Visiting. " We scarcely know a volume containing more sterling good acme, or a finer expression of modern intelligence on social subjects" —...
Page 9 - And an Introduction, explanatory of his position in the Church, with reference to the Parties which divide it. 3 vols. 8vo. cloth, £1 11*.
Page 7 - Deserve to be considered the most remarkable proofs of the Author's indomitable energy and power of concentration" — EDINBURGH REVIEW. 4. Lectures on the History of Ancient Philosophy. Edited from the Author's MSS., with Notes, by WILLIAM HEPWORTH THOMPSON, MA, Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge. 2 vols. 8vo., £1 5*.
Page 22 - THE SEVEN KINGS OF ROME. An Easy Narrative, abridged from the First Book of Livy by the omission of Difficult Passages; being a First Latin Reading Book, with Grammatical Notes and Vocabulary.
Page 7 - Of the dialectic and physics of Plato they are the only exposition at once full accurate, and popular, with which I am acquainted : being far more accurate than the French, and incomparably more popular than the German treatises on these departments of the Platonic philosophy.

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