The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 24D. Appleton, 1883 |
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... feet , and the heavens are not so far away . The earliest Vedic hymns are marked by a sense of the nearness of the gods , and men are seen mingling with them , familiarly , as friends . Nature did not oppress man with dreadful ...
... feet , and the heavens are not so far away . The earliest Vedic hymns are marked by a sense of the nearness of the gods , and men are seen mingling with them , familiarly , as friends . Nature did not oppress man with dreadful ...
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... feet , above the level of the sea . It is eighty kilometres , or a little less than fifty miles , in cir- cumference at the level of the sea , eight kilometres , or not quite five miles , long from east to west , and eight kilometres ...
... feet , above the level of the sea . It is eighty kilometres , or a little less than fifty miles , in cir- cumference at the level of the sea , eight kilometres , or not quite five miles , long from east to west , and eight kilometres ...
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... feet above it . The counting of the rings added by exogenous trees every year to their circumferences can only , without risk of great error , be applied to trees cut down in their prime , and hence is useless for the older trees which ...
... feet above it . The counting of the rings added by exogenous trees every year to their circumferences can only , without risk of great error , be applied to trees cut down in their prime , and hence is useless for the older trees which ...
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... feet as the ascer- tained growth of an oak in its first century , four feet would be its con- stant average rate , and we might conjecture that an oak of forty feet was about a thousand years old . But clearly it might be much less ...
... feet as the ascer- tained growth of an oak in its first century , four feet would be its con- stant average rate , and we might conjecture that an oak of forty feet was about a thousand years old . But clearly it might be much less ...
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... feet and a half . We should therefore be justified in assuming twelve feet as the possible first century's growth of a cedar even in England ; whence we may test the probability of the oldest cedars now on Mount Lebanon having been ...
... feet and a half . We should therefore be justified in assuming twelve feet as the possible first century's growth of a cedar even in England ; whence we may test the probability of the oldest cedars now on Mount Lebanon having been ...
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Page 521 - I hereby appoint sole executrix of this my last will and testament ; hereby revoking all former wills by me made.
Page 349 - Amid the mysteries which become the more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the ONE absolute certainty, that he is ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed.
Page 223 - everywhere Two heads in council, two beside the hearth, Two in the tangled business of the world, Two in the liberal offices of life, Two plummets dropt for one to sound the abyss Of science, and the secrets of the mind : Musician, painter, sculptor, critic, more : And everywhere the broad and bounteous Earth Should bear a double growth of those rare souls, Poets, whose thoughts enrich the blood of the world.
Page 346 - Consequently, the final outcome of that speculation commenced by the primitive man, is that the Power manifested throughout the Universe distinguished as material, is the same Power which in ourselves wells up under the form of consciousness.
Page 9 - Wherever a variant reading is adopted, some good and recognized Shaksperian Critic has been followed. In no case is a new rendering of the text proposed ; nor has it been thought necessary to distract the reader's attention by notes or comments.
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Page 472 - Thus there is no escape from the admission that in calling good the conduct which subserves life, and bad the conduct which hinders or destroys it, and in so implying that life is a blessing and not a curse, we are inevitably asserting that conduct is good or bad according as its total effects are pleasurable or painful.
Page 343 - ... they did not commit ; the damning of all men who do not avail themselves of an alleged mode of obtaining forgiveness, which most men have never heard of; and the effecting a reconciliation by sacrificing a son who was perfectly innocent, to satisfy the assumed necessity for a propitiatory victim, are modes of action which, ascribed to a human ruler, would call forth expressions of abhorrence...
Page 347 - ... religious beliefs and sentiments, seem unaware that whatever of mystery is taken from the old interpretation is added to the new. Or rather, we may say that transference from the one to the other is accompanied by increase; since, for an explanation which has a seeming feasibility, science substitutes an explanation which, carrying us back only a certain distance, there leaves us in presence of the avowedly inexplicable.