On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Notes, Commentaries, and Illustrations |
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Page 85
... Lapland and Siberia of the aurora being attended by a hissing and crackling sound . An insuperable objection to it , however , is , that if the phenomenon alluded to pro- ceeded from the coruscations of the polar ice , it would make its ...
... Lapland and Siberia of the aurora being attended by a hissing and crackling sound . An insuperable objection to it , however , is , that if the phenomenon alluded to pro- ceeded from the coruscations of the polar ice , it would make its ...
Page 86
... Lapland , frequently from the south . * In Hudson's Bay they resemble an umbrella , with streams of light darting from every part of its periph- ery . At the equator it is seldom if ever seen . Franklin supposed the aurora to be owing ...
... Lapland , frequently from the south . * In Hudson's Bay they resemble an umbrella , with streams of light darting from every part of its periph- ery . At the equator it is seldom if ever seen . Franklin supposed the aurora to be owing ...
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... Lapland juniper leaves are placed in coffins , and in Denmark ivy and laurel . The natives of the South Seas plant casuarina near their sepul- " chres ; and the slaves in the Isle of France bury their comrades in bamboo , covered with ...
... Lapland juniper leaves are placed in coffins , and in Denmark ivy and laurel . The natives of the South Seas plant casuarina near their sepul- " chres ; and the slaves in the Isle of France bury their comrades in bamboo , covered with ...
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... Lapland there are so many species of rare plants , that when Linnæus visited that country he was struck with as- tonishment . In Mexico there is a tree , the flower of which , be- fore it has expanded , resembles the closed hand of a ...
... Lapland there are so many species of rare plants , that when Linnæus visited that country he was struck with as- tonishment . In Mexico there is a tree , the flower of which , be- fore it has expanded , resembles the closed hand of a ...
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... Lapland mouse . The former seizes the end of a bough thrust into its hole , and will not let go till it is drawn out and killed . The latter de- scend in vast bodies from the mountains , and will not , in their progress , move out of a ...
... Lapland mouse . The former seizes the end of a bough thrust into its hole , and will not let go till it is drawn out and killed . The latter de- scend in vast bodies from the mountains , and will not , in their progress , move out of a ...
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Page 104 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads — to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere, Till pride and worse ambition threw me down, Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King ! Ah, wherefore?
Page 279 - And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground. And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow, And said unto them, Why sleep ye ? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.
Page 39 - After laying down my pen. I took several turns in a berceau or covered walk of acacias which commands a prospect of the country, the lake and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene: the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all Nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame.
Page 123 - I never hear the loud solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of gray plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry.
Page 64 - Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, And it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Page 220 - The secrets of the hoary deep; a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place, are lost...
Page 237 - Time may come, when men With angels may participate, and find No inconvenient diet, nor too light fare ; And from these corporal nutriments, perhaps, Your bodies may at last turn all to spirit...
Page 38 - I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Page 45 - Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here : and let us make three tabernacles ; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias: not knowing what he said.
Page 300 - You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age, wretched in both. If it be you that stirs these daughters...