Life, Letters, and Works of Louis Agassiz, Volum 2Macmillan and Company, 1895 |
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... passed the year at New Orleans , as pastor of a Swiss church there . Agassiz , who knew the diffi- culty of his family's position , urged him to finish his life with his " viel ami , " and when his fiancée was made acquainted with the ...
... passed the year at New Orleans , as pastor of a Swiss church there . Agassiz , who knew the diffi- culty of his family's position , urged him to finish his life with his " viel ami , " and when his fiancée was made acquainted with the ...
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... passed so quickly , that M. Ampère was persuaded to pass the night at Agassiz's house . ― - It may be said that Ampère1 was engaged , when a young man , to marry the daughter and only child of George Cuvier , an engagement which was ...
... passed so quickly , that M. Ampère was persuaded to pass the night at Agassiz's house . ― - It may be said that Ampère1 was engaged , when a young man , to marry the daughter and only child of George Cuvier , an engagement which was ...
Side 42
... passed , forgetting even to bring a change of linen from his Boston hotel . How he managed to keep up appearances with the same shirt was a problem which furnished great fun to Agas- siz's children , who were disposed to see the comical ...
... passed , forgetting even to bring a change of linen from his Boston hotel . How he managed to keep up appearances with the same shirt was a problem which furnished great fun to Agas- siz's children , who were disposed to see the comical ...
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... passed through Washington . Agassiz enjoyed in Henry not only his great capacity as an original observer in experimental physics and meteorology , but also his capability as a scientific administrator . Everything was to be done at once ...
... passed through Washington . Agassiz enjoyed in Henry not only his great capacity as an original observer in experimental physics and meteorology , but also his capability as a scientific administrator . Everything was to be done at once ...
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... passed there the happiest time of his life . For there he was freed from that sort of nightmare which hung over him so long , his abnormal and never well - defined association with his secretary , Desor . There he received and lived ...
... passed there the happiest time of his life . For there he was freed from that sort of nightmare which hung over him so long , his abnormal and never well - defined association with his secretary , Desor . There he received and lived ...
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Side 204 - As with fingers of the blind, We are groping here to find What the hieroglyphics mean Of the Unseen in the seen, What the Thought which underlies Nature's masking and disguise, What it is that hides beneath Blight and bloom and birth and death.
Side 95 - Entomology was a cleaner science than ichthyology, but the example of the professor, who had unhesitatingly plunged to the bottom of the jar to produce the fish, was infectious; and though this alcohol had "a very ancient and fishlike smell" I really dared not show any aversion within these sacred precincts, and treated the alcohol as though it were pure water. Still I was conscious of a passing feeling of disappointment, for gazing at a fish did not commend itself to an ardent entomologist. My friends...
Side 279 - PRINCIPLES OF ZOOLOGY; Touching the Structure, Development, Distribution, and Natural Arrangement, of the RACES OF ANIMALS, living and extinct, with numerous Illustrations. For the use of Schools and Colleges.
Side 94 - ... my name in the Scientific School as a student of natural history. He asked me a few questions about my object in coming, my antecedents generally, the mode in which I afterwards proposed to use the knowledge I might acquire, and finally, whether I wished to study any special branch. To the latter I replied that, while I wished to be well grounded in all departments of zoology, I purposed to devote myself specially to insects. "When do you wish to begin?" he asked. "Now," I replied. This seemed...
Side 97 - Agassiz's training in the method of observing facts and their orderly arrangement was ever accompanied by the urgent exhortation not to be content with them. 'Facts are stupid things,' he would say, 'until brought into connection with some general law.
Side 68 - And Nature, the old nurse, took The child upon her knee, Saying : " Here is a story-book Thy Father has written for thee. " Come wander with me," she said, " Into regions yet untrod; And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God.
Side 208 - The law of evolution, however, so far as its working is understood, is a law controlling development and keeping types within appointed cycles of growth, which revolve forever - upon themselves, returning at appointed intervals to the same starting-point and repeating through a succession of phases the same course.
Side 96 - River in a disturbed state with my two perplexities. " The cordial greeting from the professor the next morning was reassuring. Here was a man who seemed to be quite as anxious as I that I should see for myself what he saw. "' Do you perhaps mean,' I asked, ' that the fish has symmetrical sides with paired organs ?' " His thoroughly pleased
Side 97 - The fourth day, a second fish of the same group was placed beside the first, and I was bidden to point out the resemblances and differences between the two; another and another followed, until the entire family lay before me, and a whole legion of jars covered the table and surrounding shelves; the odor had become a pleasant perfume; and even now, the sight of an old, six-inch, worm-eaten cork brings fragrant memories.
Side 68 - Come, wander with me," she said, "Into regions yet untrod; And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God." And he wandered away and away With Nature, the dear old nurse, Who sang to him night and day The rhymes of the universe. And whenever the way seemed long, Or his heart began to fail, She would sing a more wonderful song, Or tell a more marvelous tale.