The Living Age, Volume 118E. Littell & Company, 1873 |
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... existence in some of the lower animals . His one - sided devotion to an à priori scheme of interpretation seems thus steadily tending to impair the author's hitherto unrivalled powers as an observer . • The Expression of the Emotions in ...
... existence in some of the lower animals . His one - sided devotion to an à priori scheme of interpretation seems thus steadily tending to impair the author's hitherto unrivalled powers as an observer . • The Expression of the Emotions in ...
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... existence of higher mental slightly drooped . Again , the strong ma- power , and the higher mental power as- ternal yearning , touched with seriousness cribed to the use of language . in its depth and intensity , will slightly depress ...
... existence of higher mental slightly drooped . Again , the strong ma- power , and the higher mental power as- ternal yearning , touched with seriousness cribed to the use of language . in its depth and intensity , will slightly depress ...
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... existence , the very breath of social is a hopeless one , and the confidence in and progressive life . To meet these pri- its results mere illusion . The higher se- mary rational wants and desires is to an crets of nature are not so ...
... existence , the very breath of social is a hopeless one , and the confidence in and progressive life . To meet these pri- its results mere illusion . The higher se- mary rational wants and desires is to an crets of nature are not so ...
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... existence ! what a mo- who continue their studies ; their brilliant notonous life ! especially if you look for- existence in the centre of civilization ward to spending thirty , forty , or fifty years the opera , the theatres , the ...
... existence ! what a mo- who continue their studies ; their brilliant notonous life ! especially if you look for- existence in the centre of civilization ward to spending thirty , forty , or fifty years the opera , the theatres , the ...
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... existence of this chasm between but simply the secretions of living bodies . the living and the not - living as a fatal The question was not , whether we can difficulty in the way of the general doc - imitate some of the productions ...
... existence of this chasm between but simply the secretions of living bodies . the living and the not - living as a fatal The question was not , whether we can difficulty in the way of the general doc - imitate some of the productions ...
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Page 519 - 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 316 - My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it.
Page 45 - All things are delivered unto me of my Father, and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
Page 466 - But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
Page 466 - I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps, the establishment of my fame.
Page 318 - Earth and moon were gone And suns and universes ceased to be And thou wert left alone Every Existence would exist in thee...
Page 96 - After these two noble fruits of friendship (peace in the affections and support of the judgment) followeth the last fruit, which is like the pomegranate, full of many kernels. I mean aid and bearing a part in all actions and occasions.
Page 316 - I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven; and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low, I shouldn't have thought of it.
Page 318 - There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou — THOU art Being and Breath, And what THOU art may never be destroyed.
Page 466 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.