Scientific Papers and Addresses, 2. köideAt the Clarendon Press, 1884 |
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Page 758 - For ever silent ; even if they broke In thunder, silent ; yet remember all He spoke among you, and the Man who spoke; Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor palter'd with Eternal God for power ; Who let the turbid streams of rumour flow Thro...
Page 874 - To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks. 7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together. 8 They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. 9 And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
Page 873 - ... success of competing nations. A few centuries ago Europe feared the inroads of Eastern barbarians; now any such fear would be ridiculous. It is a more curious fact, as Mr. Bagehot has remarked, that savages did not formerly waste away before the classical nations, as they now do before modern civilised nations; had they done so, the old moralists would have mused over the event; but there is no lament in any writer of that period over the perishing barbarians.
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Page 654 - The same tactics succeeded at Culloden, as the tactic of thrusting and giving point always will 'succeed when masses of men in rows, not isolated individuals merely, are pitted against each other on the thrusting versus the slashing plan, though the slashing sword at Culloden was of good steel enough.
Page 625 - The king sanctioned and assisted him in all that he did ; and afterwards became distinguished as the author of the first written Saxon laws, which have descended to us, or which are known to have been established ; — an important national benefit, for which he may have been indebted to his Christian teachers, as there is no evidence that the Saxons wrote any compositions before. Gregory sent into the island "many manuscripts," and thus began its intellectual as well as religious education.
Page 908 - Realschulen were not, at present, successful institutions. He declared that the boys in the corresponding forms of the classical school beat the Realschule boys in matters which both do alike, such as history, geography, the...
Page 665 - Hurdles of gorse were probably arranged on the principle of the wicker hoops in a decoy, and it is easy to see how, by such a plan, eked out perhaps by the firing of heaps of the same useful material, a wild bull, or a herd, might be driven over a pitfall...
Page 832 - There methinks would be enjoyment more than in this march of mind, In the steamship, in the railway, in the thoughts that shake mankind.
Page 860 - ... other nations, but that even in our own land they will be rendered more general and more equable, so that we shall not see before us always, as now...