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... feel , is but too feeble and imperfect . It is for the scheme of the cross - posts that the nation is indebted to the great and good Mr. ALLEN . And it is with pleasure I have to state , that the hospitable possessor of Prior - Park ...
... feel , is but too feeble and imperfect . It is for the scheme of the cross - posts that the nation is indebted to the great and good Mr. ALLEN . And it is with pleasure I have to state , that the hospitable possessor of Prior - Park ...
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... feeling of his merit , and which I believe has never been laid before the public . - Davy , then about seventeen , had formed an opinion adverse to caloric , or to the materiality of heat , and he attempted an experimentum crucis in the ...
... feeling of his merit , and which I believe has never been laid before the public . - Davy , then about seventeen , had formed an opinion adverse to caloric , or to the materiality of heat , and he attempted an experimentum crucis in the ...
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... feeling their own incapacity to follow him in his career , per liqui dum æthera , " affect to prefer rational investigations to fanciful theories a dull experiment to a splendid hypothesis . From the Medical Pneumatic Institution " of ...
... feeling their own incapacity to follow him in his career , per liqui dum æthera , " affect to prefer rational investigations to fanciful theories a dull experiment to a splendid hypothesis . From the Medical Pneumatic Institution " of ...
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... feel a fine sensation Stealing o'er my charmed frame ! Sweeter far that inhalation , Sweeter than the breath of fame . Banish'd every carking care is ; Sick disgust , and anxious fear ; This is , sure , the haunt of fairies ! Pleasure ...
... feel a fine sensation Stealing o'er my charmed frame ! Sweeter far that inhalation , Sweeter than the breath of fame . Banish'd every carking care is ; Sick disgust , and anxious fear ; This is , sure , the haunt of fairies ! Pleasure ...
Side 29
... feel At my extremities delicious thrillings ! My every sense is exquisitely keen ? My taste is so refin'd , I shall henceforth Disdain all vulgar viands . - So acute My smell , I can , for miles around me , catch The effluvia rolling ...
... feel At my extremities delicious thrillings ! My every sense is exquisitely keen ? My taste is so refin'd , I shall henceforth Disdain all vulgar viands . - So acute My smell , I can , for miles around me , catch The effluvia rolling ...
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Side 41 - If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed : for he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
Side 35 - And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them. And their eyes were opened, and they knew him ; and he vanished out of their sight.
Side 104 - And there hath been thy bane; there is a fire And motion of the soul which will not dwell In its own narrow being, but aspire Beyond the fitting medium of desire; And, but once kindled, quenchless evermore, Preys upon high adventure, nor can tire Of aught but rest; a fever at the core, Fatal to him who bears; to all who ever bore.
Side 30 - Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, "Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
Side 34 - These requisites were found to be afforded by air-tight lanterns, of various constructions, supplied with air from tubes or canals of small diameter, or from apertures covered with wire-gauze, placed below the flame, through which explosions cannot be communicated ; and having a chimney at the upper part, for carrying off the foul air.
Side 101 - Wherefore, take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand in the evil day, and having done all to stand.
Side 39 - ... referring certain laws of motion of the sea to the moon, — that the physical inquirer is seldom disposed to assert, confidently, on any abstruse subjects belonging to the order of natural things, and still less so on those relating to the more mysterious relations of moral events and intellectual natures.
Side 144 - I had ; and we each of us made use of the intelligence as we liked. I am sorry I have not been able to write to you more fully than I do. But we have been waiting in expectation of hearing, every day, for three weeks past, of the death of Mrs.
Side 124 - Except ye be born again of water and of the spirit, ye cannot enter into the kingdom of Heaven.
Side 39 - In my opinion, profound minds are the most likely to think lightly of the resources of human reason; it is the pert superficial thinker who is generally strongest in every kind of unbelief. The deep philosopher sees chains of causes and effects so wonderfully and strangely linked together, that he is usually the last person to decide upon the impossibility of any two series of events being independent...