The North British Review, Том 40W. P. Kennedy, 1864 |
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... doubt correctly , that the " carved ivory " of the king - fisher's nest is composed of the accumulated castings of the old birds during incubation . Then pass on to the peculiar modes of fishing on the sands of the Norman coast , which ...
... doubt correctly , that the " carved ivory " of the king - fisher's nest is composed of the accumulated castings of the old birds during incubation . Then pass on to the peculiar modes of fishing on the sands of the Norman coast , which ...
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... doubt a woodcock is esteemed quite out of proportion to the quantity of food it affords . But that is because the delicate quality makes up for the little size . The love of victory cannot long entice a sports- man to make war on ...
... doubt a woodcock is esteemed quite out of proportion to the quantity of food it affords . But that is because the delicate quality makes up for the little size . The love of victory cannot long entice a sports- man to make war on ...
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... doubt he is well understood in the neighbourhood of Winchester . Our Scotch mavis uses a north- country dialect . A poor half - witted creature in the country of our youth , named Kitty White , used to complain that the very mavis was ...
... doubt he is well understood in the neighbourhood of Winchester . Our Scotch mavis uses a north- country dialect . A poor half - witted creature in the country of our youth , named Kitty White , used to complain that the very mavis was ...
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... doubt you do grow weary of the landscape before your windows , when you are spending a month at some place of tem- porary sojourn , seaside or inland ; but it is quite different with that which surrounds your own home . You do not try ...
... doubt you do grow weary of the landscape before your windows , when you are spending a month at some place of tem- porary sojourn , seaside or inland ; but it is quite different with that which surrounds your own home . You do not try ...
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... doubt , justified by Joule's experiments last mentioned , but he missed in consequence some valuable results which , though discoverable in permanent gases , become especially prominent in liquefiable gases , such as sulphurous acid and ...
... doubt , justified by Joule's experiments last mentioned , but he missed in consequence some valuable results which , though discoverable in permanent gases , become especially prominent in liquefiable gases , such as sulphurous acid and ...
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Стр. 89 - Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven : and come and follow me. But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful : for he had great possessions.
Стр. 294 - Eximia veste et victu convivia, ludi, pocula crebra, unguenta coronae serta parantur, nequiquam, quoniam medio de fonte leporum surgit amari aliquid quod in ipsis floribus angat...
Стр. 91 - Now, Spring returns ; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known ; Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown.
Стр. 268 - Ah me ! how quick the days are flitting ! I mind me of a time that's gone, When here I'd sit, as now I'm sitting, In this same place — but not alone. A fair young form was nestled near me, A dear, dear face looked fondly up, And sweetly spoke and smiled to cheer me — There's no one now to share my cup.
Стр. 271 - The race not always to the swift. The strong may yield, the good may fall, The great man be a vulgar clown, The knave be lifted over all, The kind cast pitilessly down.
Стр. 250 - I took a little flower off the hillock and kissed it, and went my way like the bird that had just lighted on the cross by me, back into the world again.
Стр. 249 - ... than the fancy. This seems, however, to have been the case with Bacon. His boyhood and youth appear to have been singularly sedate. His gigantic scheme of philosophical reform is said by some writers to have been planned before he was fifteen; and was undoubtedly planned while he was still young. He observed as vigilantly, meditated as deeply, and judged as temperately, when he gave his first work to the world as at the close of his long career. But in eloquence, in sweetness and variety of expression,...
Стр. 270 - Oh, the sad old pages, the dull old pages ! Oh, the cares, the ennui, the squabbles, the repetitions, the old conversations over and over again ! But now and again a kind thought is recalled, and now and again a dear memory. Yet a few chapters more, and then the last : after which, behold Finis itself come to an end, and the Infinite begun.
Стр. 60 - It is impossible, by means of inanimate material agency, to derive mechanical effect from any portion of matter by cooling it below the temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects.
Стр. 271 - This is the month, and this the happy morn Wherein the Son of Heaven's Eternal King Of wedded maid and virgin mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring...