Essays and AddressesMacmillan, 1874 - 560 pages |
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Page 8 - Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
Page 367 - At the meeting of the Association for the Reform and Codification of the Laws of Nations at Cologne, Prussia, in 1881, the question of regulating time on the new system was considered and resolutions moved.
Page xv - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their...
Page xvi - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Page 87 - But in the meanwhile the little " thunderhead " before alluded to had grown and developed wonderfully, into a mass of rolling and ever-changing flame, to speak according to appearances. First it was crowded down, as it were, along the solar surface ; later it rose almost pyramidally 50,000 miles in height; then its summit was drawn out into long filaments and threads, which were most curiously rolled backwards and downwards like the volutes of an Ionic capital ; and finally it faded away, and by...
Page 9 - Pitch thy behaviour low, thy projects high ; So shalt thou humble and magnanimous be: Sink not in spirit ; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
Page 313 - ... coordinated, in a single, allextensive government system. 2. Where the operations possess an invariable, routine-like character. 3. Where they are performed under the public eye or for the service of individuals, who will immediately detect and expose any failure or laxity.
Page 99 - As surely as the weights of a clock run down to their lowest position, from which they can never rise again unless fresh energy is communicated to them from some source not yet exhausted, so surely must planet after planet creep in, age by age, towards the sun.
Page 99 - If it does not become incandescent, like a shooting star, by friction in its passage through his atmosphere, its first graze on his surface must produce a stupendous flash of light and heat. It may be at once, or it may be after two or three bounds like a cannon-shot ricochetting on a surface of earth or water, the •whole mass must be crushed, melted, and evaporated by a crash, generating in a moment some thousands of times as much heat as a coal of the same size would produce by burning...
Page 224 - Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation, 18 And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison.