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... as Jenny Lind or Adelina Patti ) ever heard , " p . 27 , -though at times their vocal powers degenerate into tones less dulcet than those of our great ( c operatic singers , being described as resembling loud pumping grunt vi PREFACE .
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... less than the power of Babbage's Calculating Machine , we imagine , could estimate the time which must have been consumed , and the unlimited number of metempsychoses which must have taken place , before Nature could B have produced the ...
... less than the power of Babbage's Calculating Machine , we imagine , could estimate the time which must have been consumed , and the unlimited number of metempsychoses which must have taken place , before Nature could B have produced the ...
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... less respectful descendants are periodically permitted to enjoy . Having thus traced the true origin of Man up to Nonentity , we are enabled to mount up a few steps higher in the ascending scale than those philosophers who have modestly ...
... less respectful descendants are periodically permitted to enjoy . Having thus traced the true origin of Man up to Nonentity , we are enabled to mount up a few steps higher in the ascending scale than those philosophers who have modestly ...
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... readily discover the ancient ancestor of the French Pyrrhonists in the last cen- tury , to say nothing of many English ones in the present day . brilliant lucidity , that a no less extensive class in 70 MAN AS A PYRRHONIST .
... readily discover the ancient ancestor of the French Pyrrhonists in the last cen- tury , to say nothing of many English ones in the present day . brilliant lucidity , that a no less extensive class in 70 MAN AS A PYRRHONIST .
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Bourchier Wrey Savile. brilliant lucidity , that a no less extensive class in the present day have a common ancestor in one of the early kings of Egypt who bore a very suspicious and unfortunate name . We have noticed , in a previous ...
Bourchier Wrey Savile. brilliant lucidity , that a no less extensive class in the present day have a common ancestor in one of the early kings of Egypt who bore a very suspicious and unfortunate name . We have noticed , in a previous ...
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Сторінка 299 - I had never known what the communion of man with man means. His was the freest, brotherliest, bravest human soul mine ever came in contact with: I call him, on the whole, the best man I have ever, after trial enough, found in this world, or now hope to find.
Сторінка 247 - But I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat...
Сторінка 233 - Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
Сторінка 157 - Not that which goeth into the mouth, defileth a man : but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
Сторінка 161 - And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion; and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
Сторінка 60 - Oh man ! thou feeble tenant of an hour, Debased by slavery, or corrupt by power, . Who knows thee well must quit thee with disgust, Degraded mass of animated dust! Thy love is lust, thy friendship all a cheat, Thy smiles hypocrisy, thy words deceit!
Сторінка 60 - What a confused chaos ! What a subject of contradiction ! A professed judge of all things, and yet a feeble worm of the earth ; the great depository and guardian of truth, and yet a mere huddle of uncertainty ; the glory and the scandal of the universe.
Сторінка 119 - WHAT needs my Shakespeare, for his honour'd bones, The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Сторінка 299 - THE LAST DECADE OF A GLORIOUS REIGN; completing "THE HISTORY OF HENRY IV., King of France and Navarre," from Original and Authentic Sources. By MW FREER. 2 vols., with Portraits. 21s. "The best and most comprehensive work on the reign of Henry IV. available to English readers.
Сторінка 300 - MISERABLES. By VICTOR HUGO. AUTHORISED COPYRIGHT ENGLISH TRANSLATION. "The merits of ' Les Miserables' do not merely consist in the conception of it as a whole ; it abounds with details of unequalled beauty. M. Victor Hugo has stamped upon every page the hall-mark of genius." — Quarterly Review. 29. BARBARA'S HISTORY. By AMELIA B. EDWARDS. " It is not often that we light upon a novel of so much merit and interest as