The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 108A. Constable, 1858 |
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... effect of morning spread upon the mountains . ' Miller's enjoyment of nature was intense , enlightened by the happy union of science and of taste . The introductory chapter of the Old Red Sandstone ' describes his first day of labour in ...
... effect of morning spread upon the mountains . ' Miller's enjoyment of nature was intense , enlightened by the happy union of science and of taste . The introductory chapter of the Old Red Sandstone ' describes his first day of labour in ...
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... effect of an engrossing study long prosecuted ; but so it was , that of all I had witnessed among the scenes rendered classic by the muse of Cowper , nothing more permanently impressed me than the few broken fossils of the Oolite which ...
... effect of an engrossing study long prosecuted ; but so it was , that of all I had witnessed among the scenes rendered classic by the muse of Cowper , nothing more permanently impressed me than the few broken fossils of the Oolite which ...
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... effects . Miller shared in the general impression that the theory of de- velopment , in doing violence to the facts of science , did violence also , as indeed under such conditions it is sure to do , to the analogies we should expect ...
... effects . Miller shared in the general impression that the theory of de- velopment , in doing violence to the facts of science , did violence also , as indeed under such conditions it is sure to do , to the analogies we should expect ...
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... effects of which are already felt in every part of the habitable earth . He sees the march of discovery continually going on ; new paths opened ; new instruments and methods of research brought into action ; and new laws evolved ...
... effects of which are already felt in every part of the habitable earth . He sees the march of discovery continually going on ; new paths opened ; new instruments and methods of research brought into action ; and new laws evolved ...
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... effect ; and have rescued hypothesis , in the philosophical sense of the term , from the vague reproach which it was once the fashion to cast upon it . Such vindication , however , affords no sanction to that spirit , which pushes mere ...
... effect ; and have rescued hypothesis , in the philosophical sense of the term , from the vague reproach which it was once the fashion to cast upon it . Such vindication , however , affords no sanction to that spirit , which pushes mere ...
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Page 85 - That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Page 254 - A still salt pool, lock'd in with bars of sand ; Left on the shore ; that hears all night The plunging seas draw backward from the land Their moon-led waters white.
Page 240 - I find his grace my very good lord indeed, and I believe he doth as singularly favour me, as any subject within this realm : howbeit, son Roper, I may tell thee, I have no cause to be proud thereof, for if my head would win him a castle in France (for then there was war between us), it should not fail to go.
Page 127 - Be to their faults a little blind, Be to their virtues very kind, Let all their thoughts be unconfined, And clap your padlock on the mind.
Page 121 - CANDOUR, - which loves in see-saw strain to tell Of acting foolishly, but meaning well; Too nice to praise by wholesale, or to blame, Convinced that all men's motives are the same; — And finds, with keen discriminating sight, BLACK'S not so black; - nor WHITE so very white.
Page 123 - Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the U — — niversity of Gottingen, — — niversity of Gottingen.
Page 121 - Both must be blamed, both pardoned ; — 'twas just so With Fox and Pitt full forty years ago ; So Walpole, Pulteney ; — factions in all times, Have had their follies, ministers their crimes." Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, Bold I can meet — perhaps may turn his blow ; But of all plagues, good heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh ! save me from the candid friend...
Page 510 - I cannot tell, but conclude they were all lost. For my own part, I swam as fortune directed me and was pushed forward by wind and tide. I...
Page 239 - ... till he waxed weary. Verily, God be thanked, I hear no harm of him now. And of all who ever came in my hand for heresy, as help me God, else had never any of them any stripe or stroke given them, so much as a fillip in the forehead...
Page 510 - Six of the Crew, of whom I was one, having let down the Boat into the Sea, [xao] made a Shift to get clear of the Ship, and the Rock.