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Page 375 - There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
Page 9 - MAYO'S BERBER ; or, The Mountaineer of the Atlas. A Tale of Morocco. 27. WILLIS'S LIFE HERE AND THERE; or, Sketches of Society and Adventure.* 28. GUIZOT'S LIFE OF MONK, with Appendix and Portrait.* 29.
Page 29 - Elements of Christian Theology ; containing Proofs of the Authenticity and Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures; a Summary of the History of the Jews; an Account of the Jewish Sects ; and a brief Statement of the Contents of the several Books of the Old Testament.
Page 114 - The conquest of Egypt by the Arabs diffused that vain science over the globe. Congenial to the avarice of the human heart, it was studied in China as in Europe, with equal eagerness and with equal success. The darkness of the middle ages ensured a favourable reception to every tale of wonder, and the revival of learning gave new vigour to hope, and suggested more specious arts of deception.
Page 413 - Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? Or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death? Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? Declare if thou knowest it all.
Page 208 - Yet we have it under perfect command ; can evolve, direct, and employ it at pleasure ; and when it has performed its full work of electrolyzation, it has only separated the elements of a single grain of water.
Page 5 - This Work has a tone and an individuality which distinguish it from all others, and cannot be read without pleasure. Mr. Miller has the forms and colours of rustic life more completely under his control than any of his predecessors.
Page 89 - ... heat, is liable to an obvious error. The radiant heat would find a quicker passage through the transparent screen, and therefore the difference of effect was not due to the transmitted heat, but to the heat radiating from the anterior surface. The truth contained in M. De la Roche's fifth proposition is almost a demonstration of the fallacy of all those that precede it. He found that a thick plate of glass, though as much or more permeable to light than a thin glass of worse quality, allowed...
Page 2 - ... mundane system. By virtue of this life the great masses are held together in their orderly courses, as well as the minutest particles governed in their natural motions, according to the several laws of attraction, gravity, electricity, magnetism, and the rest. It is this gives instincts, teaches the spider her web, and the bee her honey.