The Earth and Man: Lectures on Comparative Physical Geography in Its Relation to the History of MankindGould and Lincoln, 1856 - 334 pages |
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Page 331 - The present Work is intended to supply, with respect to the English language, a desideratum hitherto unsupplied in any language; namely, a collection of the words it contains and of the idiomatic combinations peculiar to it, arranged, not in alphabetical order as they are in a Dictionary, but according to the ideas which they express.
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Page 331 - To persons who are not familiar with foreign tongues, the catalogue of foreign words and phrases most current in modern literature, which the American editor has appended, will be very useful. — Presbyterian. It casts the whole English language Into groups of words and terms, arranged In such a manner that the student of English composition...
Page 263 - Invited to labor by everything around him, he soon finds, in the exercise of all his faculties, at once progress and well-being. Thus, if the tropical continents have the wealth of nature, the temperate continents are the most perfectly organized for the development of man. They are opposed to each other, as the body and the soul, as the inferior races and the superior races, as savage man and civilized man, as nature and history.
Page 14 - Has it not its sympathies and antipathies in those mysterious elective affinities of the different molecules of matter which chemistry investigates? Has it not the powerful attractions of bodies to each other, which govern the motions of the stars scattered in the immensity of space, and keep them in an admirable harmony? Do we not see, and always with a secret astonishment, the magnetic needle agitated at the approach of a particle of iron and leaping under the fire of the Northern light? Place...
Page 329 - OF ANECDOTES OF LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS, Containing a copious and choice Selection of Anecdotes of the various forms of Literature, of the Arts, of Architecture, Engravings...
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Page 16 - It is indeed life, but undoubtedly in a very inferior order of things. It is life ; the thousand voices of nature which make themselves heard around us, and which in so many ways betray that incessant and prodigious activity, proclaim it so loudly that we cannot shut our ears to their language.
Page 331 - It is a most valuable work, giving the results of many years' labor, in an attempt to classify and arrange the words of the English tongue, so as to facilitate the practice of composition. The purpose of an ordinary dictionary is to explain the meaning of words, while the object of this Thesaurus is to collate all the words by which any given idea may be expressed.
Page 261 - ... to the vigorous employment of all his faculties. A more economical nature yields nothing, except to the sweat of his brow; every gift on her part is a recompense for effort on his.