Consolations in Travel: Or, The Last Days of a PhilosopherCassell Publishing Company, 1889 - 192 pages |
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Ambrosio amongst ancient animals appeared arts atmosphere beautiful belonging blood bright calcareous carbonic acid causes changes CHARLES DICKENS chemical philosopher chemistry Christianity civilised Colosæum colours consider CONSOLATIONS IN TRAVEL DANIEL DEFOE Davy decay deposited destroyed destruction discovery divine dream earth EDMUND SPENSER effects electricity eternal exalted existence faith feelings fire fluid genius globe Gmünden granite heat human Humphry Davy idea Illyria imagination immortality infinite influence instinct intellectual intelligence JOHN MILTON John Tonkin labour lake larvæ laws light likewise living LORD MACAULAY marble matter mind nations nature objects Onuphrio organisation organs oviparous Pæstum peculiar perfect phenomena Philalethes PLUTARCH preserved produced quantity race reason refined religion remains RICHARD HAKLUYT rocks Roman Rome ruins SAMUEL JOHNSON Samuel Pepys scene sensations sentient principle SHAKESPEARE society species stones stranger strata subterraneous supposed surface temperature temples tion Traun travertine vegetable vision
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Page 72 - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Page 95 - The crystalline rocks, or, as they are called by geologists, the primary rocks, which contain no vestiges of a former order of things, were the results of the first consolidation on its surface. Upon the further cooling, the water, which, more or less, had covered it, contracted; depositions took place ; shell-fish and coral insects were created, and began their labors.
Page 119 - The variety of the scenery, the verdure of the meadows and trees, the depths of the valleys and the altitudes of the mountains, the clearness and grandeur of the rivers and lakes, give it, I think, a decided superiority over Switzerland.
Page 32 - In the common history of the world, as compiled by authors in general, almost all the great changes of nations are confounded with changes in their dynasties, and events are usually referred either to sovereigns, chiefs, heroes, or their armies, which do, in fact, originate from entirely different causes, either of an intellectual or moral nature. Governments depend far more than is generally supposed upon the opinion of the people and the spirit of the age and nation.
Page 89 - ... with marble. There is, I believe, no place in the world, where there is a more striking example of the opposition or contrast of the laws of animate and inanimate nature, of the forces of inorganic chemical affinity and those of the powers of life.
Page 151 - ... it exalts ; but it is in misfortune, in sickness, in age, that its effects are most truly and beneficially felt ; when submission in faith, and humble trust in the divine will, from duties become pleasures, undecaying sources of consolation ; then it creates powers which were believed to be extinct, and gives a freshness to the mind which was supposed to have passed away for ever, but which is now renovated as an immortal hope.
Page 113 - ... we shall meet again, adieu !" and he gave me his paternal blessing. It was eighteen months after this interview, that I went out with almost the whole population of Rome, to receive and welcome the triumphal entry of this illustrious father of the church into his capital. He was borne on the shoulders of the most distinguished artists, headed by Canova ; and never shall I forget the enthusiasm with which he was received, — it is impossible to describe the shouts of triumph and of rapture sent...
Page 160 - Plutarch, would seem to show how great is the effect of science in creating power. In modern times the refining of sugar, the preparation of nitre, the manufacturing of acids, salts, &c. are all results of pure chemistry. Take gunpowder as a specimen ; no person but a man infinitely diversifying his processes and guided by analogy, could have made such a discovery. Look into the books of the alchemists, and some idea may be formed of the effects of experiments. It is true, these persons were guided...
Page 47 - ... carries with it into all its stages of being, and which in these happy and elevated creatures is continually exalted; the love of knowledge or of intellectual power, which is, in fact, in its ultimate and most perfect development, the love of infinite wisdom and unbounded power, or the love of God. Even in the imperfect life that belongs to the earth this passion exists in a considerable degree, increases even with age, outlives the perfection of the corporeal faculties, and at the moment of...
Page 150 - ... into intellectual existence, a walk into the green fields or woods, by the banks of rivers, brought back my feelings from nature to God. I saw in all the powers of matter the instruments of the Deity. The sunbeams, the breath of the zephyr...