The five gateways of knowledgeMacmillan, 1861 - 105 sider |
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... tongue as delicate as that of the butterfly ; and a touch as acute as that of the spider . No man ever was so endowed , and no one ever will be ; but all come infinitely short of what they should achieve were they to make their senses ...
... tongue as delicate as that of the butterfly ; and a touch as acute as that of the spider . No man ever was so endowed , and no one ever will be ; but all come infinitely short of what they should achieve were they to make their senses ...
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... sounds which the earth and its atmosphere yield , and in time to the passing moment . The starry abysses for it are silent ; and the past and the future are equally dumb . The Nostril , the Tongue , and the Hand are OF KNOWLEDGE . 25.
... sounds which the earth and its atmosphere yield , and in time to the passing moment . The starry abysses for it are silent ; and the past and the future are equally dumb . The Nostril , the Tongue , and the Hand are OF KNOWLEDGE . 25.
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George Wilson. The Nostril , the Tongue , and the Hand are similarly bounded , perhaps even more so ; but the Eye so triumphs over space , that it traverses in a moment the boundless ocean which stretches beyond our atmosphere , and ...
George Wilson. The Nostril , the Tongue , and the Hand are similarly bounded , perhaps even more so ; but the Eye so triumphs over space , that it traverses in a moment the boundless ocean which stretches beyond our atmosphere , and ...
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... tongues of our fellow - men , than it is to be blinded to the sights on which they gaze . Those who are born , or early become deaf , are far more isolated all their lives from their hearing neighbours , than the blind are from those ...
... tongues of our fellow - men , than it is to be blinded to the sights on which they gaze . Those who are born , or early become deaf , are far more isolated all their lives from their hearing neighbours , than the blind are from those ...
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... tongue . Dreamland is a silent land , and all the dwellers in it are deaf and dumb . How different is it with Sight ! No objects beheld by our waking eyes impress us so vividly as the splendid and awful dissolving views which pass ...
... tongue . Dreamland is a silent land , and all the dwellers in it are deaf and dumb . How different is it with Sight ! No objects beheld by our waking eyes impress us so vividly as the splendid and awful dissolving views which pass ...
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Side 75 - The forward violet thus did I chide : Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal thy sweet that smells, If not from my love's breath ? The purple pride Which on thy soft cheek for complexion dwells In my love's veins thou hast too grossly dyed.
Side 71 - Lies festering in his shroud; where, as they say, At some hours in the night spirits resort: Alack, alack! is it not like that I, So early waking, what with loathsome smells, And shrieks like mandrakes' torn out of the earth, That living mortals, hearing them, run mad: O!
Side 72 - DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Side 115 - The fitness of Holy Scripture for Unfolding the Spiritual Life of Man : Christ the Desire of all Nations ; or, the Unconscious Prophecies of Heathendom.
Side 10 - There the blackbird bigs his nest For the mate he lo'es to see, And on the topmost bough, O, a happy bird is he! Then he pours his melting ditty, And love is a' the theme, And he'll woo his bonnie lassie When the kye comes hame.
Side 35 - Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome!
Side 77 - For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same, my name shall be great among the gentiles, and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the Lord of hosts.
Side 115 - Christ and other Masters. A Historical Inquiry into some of the Chief Parallelisms and Contrasts between Christianity and the Religious Systems of the Ancient World.
Side 75 - And to his robbery had annex'd thy breath ; But, for his theft, in pride of all his growth A vengeful canker eat him up to death. More flowers I noted, yet I none could see But sweet or colour it had stol'n from thee.