...philosophic depth, which the readers of the Aids to Reflection have long since laid up in cedar : — " Every rank of creatures, as it ascends in the scale...vegetable life, divides into correspondent organs with July 12. 1827. POPEDOM. — SCANDERBEG THOMAS A BECKET. — PURE AGES OF GREEK, ITALIAN, AND ENGLISH....

...philosophic depth, which the readers of the Aids to Reflection have long since laid up in cedar : — " Every rank of creatures, as it ascends in the scale...vegetable life, divides into correspondent organs with July 12. 1827. POPEDOM. — SCANDERBEG. — THOMAS A BECKET. — PURE AGES OF GREEK, ITALIAN, AND ENGLISH....

...philosophic depth, which the readert of the Aids to Reflection have long since laid up in cedar : — " Every rank of creatures, as it ascends in the scale...under it. The metal at its height of being seems a THE POPEDOM. 43 July 12. 1827. POPEDO3I. SCANDEBBEG. THOMAS A BECKET. PURE AGES OP GREEK, ITALIAN,...

...seek it, in things below you. How can that be ? It must be a higher good to make you happy. COMMENT. Every rank of Creatures, as it ascends in the scale of Creation, leaves D«ath behind it or under it. The Metal at" its height of Being seems a mute Prophecy of the coming...

...seek it, in things below you. How can that be? It must be a higher good to make you happy. COMMENT. Every rank of creatures, as it ascends in the scale of creation, leaves deatli behind it or under it. The metal at its height of being seems a mute prophecy of the coming...

...and causes it to assume new forms, to promote growth and to resist decay. We see that, as Coleridge says, " every rank of creatures, as it ascends in the scale of creation, leaves death behind and below it." The greatest tenacity of organic life does not, however, belong to the highest order...

...illustrations may remind the reader of the following admired passage in Coleridge's " Aids to Reflection :" * " Every rank of creatures, as it ascends in the scale...height of being seems a mute prophecy of the coming vege* Pp. Ill, 112, Istcd. tation, into a mimic semblance of which it crystalizes. The Blossom and...

...seek it, in things below you. How can that be ? It must be a higher good to make you happy. COMMENT. Every rank of creatures, as it ascends in the scale...under it. The metal at its height of being seems a mule prophecy of the coming vegetation, into a mimic semblance of which it crystallizes. The blossom...

...prophecy of the coming vege* Pp. Ill, 112, 1st ed. tation, into a mimic semblance of which it crystalizes. The Blossom and Flower, the acme of vegetable life,...functions, and by instinctive motions and approximations seerns impatient of that fixture by which it is differenced in kind from the flower-shaped Psyche,...

...to recollect something of Coleridge's, but I cannot. But I know the passage begins with saying, that every rank of creatures, as it ascends in the scale of creation, leaves death behind it or under it, and is itself a mute prophecy of the rank next above it. Sometimes water freezes into a resemblance...