The Canadian Journal of Industry, Science and Art, Volume 2Canadian Institute., 1857 - Art |
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... ancient temperature of the earth's surface , compelling us to admit that , at least during the latter of its epochs , oscillations of heat and cold must have occurred , to interfere with the pro- gress of refrigeration which was taking ...
... ancient temperature of the earth's surface , compelling us to admit that , at least during the latter of its epochs , oscillations of heat and cold must have occurred , to interfere with the pro- gress of refrigeration which was taking ...
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... ancient Kings of Egypt , was submitted to him . It was clearly shown by the micro- scope that wherever the professedly ancient writing was crossed by that of more modern times , the ink of the old letters lay upon in- stead of under ...
... ancient Kings of Egypt , was submitted to him . It was clearly shown by the micro- scope that wherever the professedly ancient writing was crossed by that of more modern times , the ink of the old letters lay upon in- stead of under ...
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... ANCIENT GREEK CITY OF PANTICAPOUM ( KERTCH ) , BY DR . D. MACPHERSON . The present town of Kertch is built close to the site where 500 years B. C. the Milesians founded a colony . About fifty years before Christ , this colony became ...
... ANCIENT GREEK CITY OF PANTICAPOUM ( KERTCH ) , BY DR . D. MACPHERSON . The present town of Kertch is built close to the site where 500 years B. C. the Milesians founded a colony . About fifty years before Christ , this colony became ...
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... ancient architecture which now remains on the face of the earth should be preserved with religious care ; but to servilely copy those , and to attempt to apply them to the uses of our day , is as preposterous as to attempt to harmonize ...
... ancient architecture which now remains on the face of the earth should be preserved with religious care ; but to servilely copy those , and to attempt to apply them to the uses of our day , is as preposterous as to attempt to harmonize ...
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... Ancient Miners of Lake Superior . " 26th January , 1856 . J. Brown , Esq .- “ On the Aborigines of Australia . " 2nd February , 1856 . Prof. Kingston , M. A.- " Meteorological Report for 1855. " 2nd February , 1856 . Rev. Prof. Young ...
... Ancient Miners of Lake Superior . " 26th January , 1856 . J. Brown , Esq .- “ On the Aborigines of Australia . " 2nd February , 1856 . Prof. Kingston , M. A.- " Meteorological Report for 1855. " 2nd February , 1856 . Rev. Prof. Young ...
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Page 205 - So careful of the type?' but no, From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries "A thousand types are gone. I care for nothing; all shall go. "Thou makest thine appeal to me: I bring to life, I bring to death; The spirit does but mean the breath; I know no more.
Page 41 - The property is bequeathed to the United States of America, "to found at Washington, under the name of the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.
Page 106 - Oh, from out the sounding cells, What a gush of euphony voluminously wells! How it swells! How it dwells On the Future!
Page 106 - How it swells! How it dwells On the Future ! how it tells Of the rapture that impels To the swinging and the ringing Of the bells, bells, bells— Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!
Page 254 - This day, much against my will, I did - in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and " Lord have mercy upon us!" writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw.
Page 105 - gone before," with Hope, that flew beside, Leaving thee wild for the dear child that should have been thy bride— For her, the fair and debonair, that now so lowly lies, The life upon her yellow hair but not within her eyes— The life still there, upon her hair— the death upon her eyes.
Page 105 - Avaunt! to-night my heart is light. No dirge will I upraise, "But waft the angel on her flight with a Paean of old days ! "Let no bell toll! — lest her sweet soul, amid its hallowed mirth, "Should catch the note, as it doth float up from the damned Earth. "To friends above, from...
Page 205 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Page 253 - Tobacco battered, and the pipes shattered, about their ears that idly idolize so base and barbarous a weed, or at leastwise overlove so loathsome a vanity, by a volley of holy shot thundered from Mount Helicon."§...
Page 205 - And he, shall he, Man, her last work, who seem'd so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed, And love Creation's final law — Tho...