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Page 82
... noted , promotes the knowledge of causes , and aids in the deduction of general laws . I cannot doubt that , among the members of the In- stitute , there are many capable of responding to the invitation of the Council in this respect ...
... noted , promotes the knowledge of causes , and aids in the deduction of general laws . I cannot doubt that , among the members of the In- stitute , there are many capable of responding to the invitation of the Council in this respect ...
Page 148
... noted and recorded as they occur . The same observations apply to the Fauna and Flora of the Continent , which are unquestionably disappearing from many localities , now encroached upon by the clearings of new settlers : and • The ...
... noted and recorded as they occur . The same observations apply to the Fauna and Flora of the Continent , which are unquestionably disappearing from many localities , now encroached upon by the clearings of new settlers : and • The ...
Page 196
... noted down . The space immediately surrounding the south pole , was swept in one belt of 5 ° by moving the circle , and each zone overlaps those adjoining both in right ascension and declination . Above the polar belt there are forty ...
... noted down . The space immediately surrounding the south pole , was swept in one belt of 5 ° by moving the circle , and each zone overlaps those adjoining both in right ascension and declination . Above the polar belt there are forty ...
Page 214
... noted facts . These once accumulated , will fall into their order in due time , and the legitimate conclusions they point to , whatever they may be , will carry conviction to all honest seekers after truth , and find no lack of ...
... noted facts . These once accumulated , will fall into their order in due time , and the legitimate conclusions they point to , whatever they may be , will carry conviction to all honest seekers after truth , and find no lack of ...
Page 236
... noted that the terms existing in the widely diversified native vocabularies are irreconcileable with the idea of the introduction of tobacco among the northern tribes of the American continent as a recently borrowed novelty . We learn ...
... noted that the terms existing in the widely diversified native vocabularies are irreconcileable with the idea of the introduction of tobacco among the northern tribes of the American continent as a recently borrowed novelty . We learn ...
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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...