The Canadian Journal of Industry, Science and Art, 7. köideCanadian Institute., 1862 |
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... falls into the same original sin of science . On the most slender grounds , as is well known , he embraced as a certainty , the possibility of the doctrine of " more worlds than one , " and stamped the theory of the Planets and ...
... falls into the same original sin of science . On the most slender grounds , as is well known , he embraced as a certainty , the possibility of the doctrine of " more worlds than one , " and stamped the theory of the Planets and ...
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... fall upon a land alive with citizen - soldiers prepared to defend its soil to the last ; satisfied with its political position , unprepared for changes in its allegiance . We have live long enough to refuse to turn from the chaste and ...
... fall upon a land alive with citizen - soldiers prepared to defend its soil to the last ; satisfied with its political position , unprepared for changes in its allegiance . We have live long enough to refuse to turn from the chaste and ...
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... falling probably nearly half below the truth as regards the number of cases , and much more as to the number of deaths . The Board sat daily from 3 to 5 p . m . , and left nothing un- done within their power which could either arrest ...
... falling probably nearly half below the truth as regards the number of cases , and much more as to the number of deaths . The Board sat daily from 3 to 5 p . m . , and left nothing un- done within their power which could either arrest ...
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... Fall of rain , 1.21 , succeeded by cold , clear weather , snow , and ther . 18 ° . April . A month of high temperature , therm . 61 on the 13th at noon , 66 ° on the 16th , high range . One thunder storm . Cold and variable towards end ...
... Fall of rain , 1.21 , succeeded by cold , clear weather , snow , and ther . 18 ° . April . A month of high temperature , therm . 61 on the 13th at noon , 66 ° on the 16th , high range . One thunder storm . Cold and variable towards end ...
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... falls naturally into the mineralogical group to which it undoubtedly belongs ; whereas on the other view , founded on the bare results of analysis , not only does the atomic constitution of the mineral remain uncertain , but its ...
... falls naturally into the mineralogical group to which it undoubtedly belongs ; whereas on the other view , founded on the bare results of analysis , not only does the atomic constitution of the mineral remain uncertain , but its ...
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Page 16 - Roused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bands,* That this most famous Stream in bogs and sands Should perish ; and to evil and to good Be lost for ever. In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old : We must be free or die, who speak...
Page 212 - He tore out a reed, the great god Pan, From the deep cool bed of the river : The limpid water turbidly ran, And the broken lilies a-dying lay, And the dragon-fly had fled away, Ere he brought it out of the river. III. High on the shore sat the great god Pan...
Page 16 - We have not been drawn and trussed, in order that we may be filled, like stuffed birds in a museum, with chaff and rags and paltry blurred shreds of paper about the rights of man.
Page 15 - We know that we have made no discoveries, and we think that no discoveries are to be made, in morality; nor many in the great principles of government, nor in the ideas of liberty, which were understood long before we were born, altogether as well as they will be after the grave has heaped its mould upon our presumption, and the silent tomb shall have imposed its law on our pert loquacity.
Page 213 - And the dragon-fly had fled away, Ere he brought it out of the river. High on the shore sat the great god Pan. While turbidly flowed the river, And hacked and hewed as a great god can, With his hard bleak steel at the patient reed, Till there was not a sign of a leaf indeed To prove it fresh from the river. He cut it short, did the great god Pan, (How tall it stood in the river!) Then drew the pith, like the heart of a man, Steadily from the outside ring, Then notched the poor dry empty thing In...
Page 48 - Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Page 213 - Yet half a beast is the great god Pan, To laugh as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of a man : The true gods sigh for the cost and pain, — For the reed which grows nevermore again As a reed with the reeds in the river.
Page 16 - In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible knights of old : We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake, the faith and morals hold Which Milton held. In everything we are sprung Of earth's first blood, have titles manifold.
Page 329 - In moving, the land leeches have the power of planting one extremity on the earth and raising the other perpendicularly to watch for their victim. Such is their vigilance and instinct, that on the approach of a passer-by to a spot which they infest, they may be seen...
Page 213 - Pan, Piercing sweet by the river! Blinding sweet, O great god Pan ! The sun on the hill forgot to die, And the lilies revived, and the dragon-fly Came back to dream on the river.