An Autobiography: My Schools and Schoolmasters; Or, The Story of My EducationGould and Lincoln, 1855 - 537 páginas |
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... starry sky , The sleep that is among the lonely hills . " WORDSWORTH . BOSTON : GOULD AND LINCOLN . NEW YORK : SHELDON , LAMPORT , AND BLAKEMAN . 1855 . Entered according to Act of Congress , in the year AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY . CHAPTER.
... starry sky , The sleep that is among the lonely hills . " WORDSWORTH . BOSTON : GOULD AND LINCOLN . NEW YORK : SHELDON , LAMPORT , AND BLAKEMAN . 1855 . Entered according to Act of Congress , in the year AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY . CHAPTER.
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... on the sea - shore . - The blank mica and garnet crystals of Cromarty . - Exploration of Cromarty Hill . - A wild paradise of rocks.— “ Getting siller in the stanes ” . 38 CHAPTER IV . PAGE Quiet hours in the Ebb with.
... on the sea - shore . - The blank mica and garnet crystals of Cromarty . - Exploration of Cromarty Hill . - A wild paradise of rocks.— “ Getting siller in the stanes ” . 38 CHAPTER IV . PAGE Quiet hours in the Ebb with.
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... Hill . - The ancient records of geology confirmed by the present extinction of animal species on the globe . - Resolve to seek my fortune among the stone - cutters of Edinburgh . - Scenery of the Frith of Forth . - Distant view of the ...
... Hill . - The ancient records of geology confirmed by the present extinction of animal species on the globe . - Resolve to seek my fortune among the stone - cutters of Edinburgh . - Scenery of the Frith of Forth . - Distant view of the ...
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... Hill of Cromarty , -extraordinary character of the scene . - Origin of Scottish mosses . - Molusca of the Shandwick lias . - Dissection of a loligo . - The oolitic and lias deposits . - Organism of the second age of vertebrate existence ...
... Hill of Cromarty , -extraordinary character of the scene . - Origin of Scottish mosses . - Molusca of the Shandwick lias . - Dissection of a loligo . - The oolitic and lias deposits . - Organism of the second age of vertebrate existence ...
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... hills , it would perish in the snow . The master , though unwilling to cumber us with a passenger in such weath- er , was induced , out of pity for the poor destitute creature , to take her aboard . And she was now , with her child ...
... hills , it would perish in the snow . The master , though unwilling to cumber us with a passenger in such weath- er , was induced , out of pity for the poor destitute creature , to take her aboard . And she was now , with her child ...
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Página i - Love had he found in huts where poor men lie; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Página 165 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate— Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute — And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Página 224 - And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.
Página 395 - We have not been drawn and trussed, in order that we may be filled, like stuffed birds in a museum, with chaff and ra'gs and paltry blurred shreds of paper about the rights of man.
Página 186 - Wi' life an' light; Or winter howls, in gusty storms, The lang, dark night! The Muse, nae poet ever fand her, Till by himsel he learn'd to wander, Adown some trottin burn's meander, An' no think lang: O sweet to stray, an' pensive ponder A heart-felt sang!
Página 433 - this palace is the seat of happiness; where pleasure succeeds to pleasure, and discontent and sorrow can have no admission. Whatever nature has provided for the delight of sense, is here spread...
Página 38 - At Wallace' name, what Scottish blood But boils up in a spring-tide flood ! Oft have our fearless fathers strode By Wallace' side, Still pressing onward, red-wat shod, Or glorious died.
Página 27 - I actually found out for myself that the art of reading is the art of finding stories in books; and from that moment reading became one of the most delightful of my amusements.
Página 210 - Alternate triumphed in his breast; His bliss and woe — a smile, a tear; Oblivion hides the rest. The bounding pulse, the languid limb, The changing spirit's rise and fall; We know that these were felt by him, For these are felt by all.
Página 28 - That left half-told the preternatural tale, Romance of Giants, chronicle of Fiends Profuse in garniture of wooden cuts Strange and uncouth ; dire faces, figures dire, Sharp-knee'd, sharp-elbowed, and lean-ankled too, With long and ghostly shanks — forms which once seen Could never be forgotten...