The Library Magazine, Volume 3John B. Alden, 1887 |
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... interest and importance . And should have to pay for fresh air , as we inevitably so . For as long as a country do for gas or water ; but the conditions is not thickly inhabited , as long as in of our town life are making it impera- the ...
... interest and importance . And should have to pay for fresh air , as we inevitably so . For as long as a country do for gas or water ; but the conditions is not thickly inhabited , as long as in of our town life are making it impera- the ...
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... interest to the expert , there is no concealing the fact that to the general public a museum , of whatever nature , is most intolerably dull , as I Such a state of affairs may be hard know by personal experience . To me , to attain ...
... interest to the expert , there is no concealing the fact that to the general public a museum , of whatever nature , is most intolerably dull , as I Such a state of affairs may be hard know by personal experience . To me , to attain ...
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... interest may be excited by general public . If people only visited the lions , tigers , leopards , some of the museums for the purpose of study , monkeys and a few eagles . But the there would be no difficulty in the interest soon cools ...
... interest may be excited by general public . If people only visited the lions , tigers , leopards , some of the museums for the purpose of study , monkeys and a few eagles . But the there would be no difficulty in the interest soon cools ...
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... interest malia , showing how the same limbs as them , and try to lead them on to those of man can , by simple modifica- systematic study . For this purpose , tions ( or " differentiations " ) , be em- it is evident to my mind that we ...
... interest malia , showing how the same limbs as them , and try to lead them on to those of man can , by simple modifica- systematic study . For this purpose , tions ( or " differentiations " ) , be em- it is evident to my mind that we ...
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... interest once aroused would never after- at South Kensington , I certainly should ward fade from their minds . not try to interest their uninstructed analogous plan has been pursued for minds by showing them the series of many years ...
... interest once aroused would never after- at South Kensington , I certainly should ward fade from their minds . not try to interest their uninstructed analogous plan has been pursued for minds by showing them the series of many years ...
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Page 542 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Page 457 - For woman is not undevelopt man, But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet Love were slain : his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow ; The man be more of woman, she of man ; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind ; Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto...
Page 107 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 542 - God, That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
Page 534 - Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition, gliding in the dim afternoon light through the aisles of St Mary's, rising into the pulpit, and then, in the most entrancing of voices, breaking the silence with words and thoughts which were a religious music - subtle, sweet, mournful?
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Page 536 - FROM the time that I became a Catholic, of course I have no further history of my religious opinions to narrate. In saying this, I do not mean to say that my mind has been idle, or that I have given up thinking on theological subjects; but that I have had no variations to record, and have had no anxiety of heart whatever.
Page 542 - Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fall'n asleep, I heard a voice, "Believe no more," And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the godless deep; A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answer'd, "I have felt.
Page 554 - ... errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature. The boat at St.
Page 530 - An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. The smallest actual good is better than the most magnificent promises of impossibilities. The wise man of the Stoics would, no doubt, be a grander object than a steam-engine. But there are steam-engines. And the wise man of the Stoics is yet to be born.