The Living Age, Volume 264E. Littell & Company, 1910 |
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... Natural History Department , was asked ( Qs . 3364-6 ) : Q. " While you were employed in ar- ranging the collection in scientific or- der , did you keep distinctly in view at the same time the making of it at tractive to the general ...
... Natural History Department , was asked ( Qs . 3364-6 ) : Q. " While you were employed in ar- ranging the collection in scientific or- der , did you keep distinctly in view at the same time the making of it at tractive to the general ...
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... Natural history specimens collected during fifteeen months ' residence in Jamaica , where he had held the ap ... nature and art . " The italics are mine : the words clearly indicate that this was a collection put together not to ...
... Natural history specimens collected during fifteeen months ' residence in Jamaica , where he had held the ap ... nature and art . " The italics are mine : the words clearly indicate that this was a collection put together not to ...
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... natural history collections . I have not given the full list of ob- jects , but those mentioned serve to show the nature of the work to which the Association has set its hands ; more especially I wish to draw attention to the ...
... natural history collections . I have not given the full list of ob- jects , but those mentioned serve to show the nature of the work to which the Association has set its hands ; more especially I wish to draw attention to the ...
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... Nature had made the girl of at noble materials , once fine and strong . The instincts of wife and mother moved graciously within her ; she would dry a gutter - baby's tears and carry it over a crowded crossing . At the sight of frayed ...
... Nature had made the girl of at noble materials , once fine and strong . The instincts of wife and mother moved graciously within her ; she would dry a gutter - baby's tears and carry it over a crowded crossing . At the sight of frayed ...
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... nature to be happy and to see to it that those around her should share in her happiness . She smiled , and a gleam of sunshine crossed the dingiest room upon the dullest day , and the hearts of her housemates rejoiced . Youth had come ...
... nature to be happy and to see to it that those around her should share in her happiness . She smiled , and a gleam of sunshine crossed the dingiest room upon the dullest day , and the hearts of her housemates rejoiced . Youth had come ...
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Page 234 - Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence : truths that wake, To perish never; Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavor, Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy!
Page 412 - He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noon-day grove ; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.
Page 393 - Peace, peace ! he is not dead, he doth not sleep ! He hath awakened from the dream of life. Tis we who, lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife, And in mad trance strike with our spirit's knife Invulnerable nothings.
Page 234 - But whoso hath this world's goods, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
Page 207 - At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay, And a pinnace, like a flutter'd bird, came flying from far away: "Spanish ships of war at sea! we have sighted fifty-three!
Page 393 - Life of Life ! thy lips enkindle With their love the breath between them ; And thy smiles before they dwindle Make the cold air fire; then screen them In those looks, where whoso gazes Faints, entangled in their mazes.
Page 616 - For I trust if an enemy's fleet came yonder round by the hill, And the rushing battle-bolt sang from the three-decker out of the foam, That the smooth-faced snubnosed rogue would leap from his counter and till, And strike, if he could, were it but with his cheating yardwand, home.
Page 202 - By me o'r thee, as justments to the dead, Forgive, forgive me ; since I did not know Whether thy bones had here their rest, or no. But now 'tis known, behold, behold, I bring Unto thy ghost th...
Page 42 - That peck along the road, regard him not. He travels on, and in his face, his step, His gait, is one expression; every limb, His look and bending figure, all bespeak A man who does not move with pain, but moves With thought. - He is insensibly subdued To settled quiet: he is one by whom All effort seems forgotten, one to whom Long patience hath such mild composure given, That patience now doth seem a thing, of which He hath no need.
Page 444 - To those puny objectors against cards, as nurturing the bad passions, she would retort, that man is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other : — that this passion can scarcely be more safely expended than upon a game at cards : that...