The American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review, Volume 3H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley H. Biglow, 1818 - American literature |
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... the argu- ments adduced , in support of the opposite positions of the two disputants , is , that under the prevailing practice of the laws of the state of New - York , the cases of · ART . 5. Essay on the Theory of the Earth.
... the argu- ments adduced , in support of the opposite positions of the two disputants , is , that under the prevailing practice of the laws of the state of New - York , the cases of · ART . 5. Essay on the Theory of the Earth.
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... earth . Such a theory supposes a system support- ed by a series of facts relative to the changes and origin of the terraqueous globe . Mineralogy has heretofore almost exclusively furnished data , upon which theories of the earth have ...
... earth . Such a theory supposes a system support- ed by a series of facts relative to the changes and origin of the terraqueous globe . Mineralogy has heretofore almost exclusively furnished data , upon which theories of the earth have ...
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... earth , but are now extinct , lead us to a true and cor- rect history of our globe , as explained in the preliminary observations ( p . 27 ) of Cuvier himself ... earth , that have been advocated 52 MAR , Cuvier's Theory of the Earth .
... earth , but are now extinct , lead us to a true and cor- rect history of our globe , as explained in the preliminary observations ( p . 27 ) of Cuvier himself ... earth , that have been advocated 52 MAR , Cuvier's Theory of the Earth .
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... earth , collected and recorded in the different works on geology . The investigations on this sub- ject have been principally made in Eu- rope and Asia . America has of late pre- sented abundant additional facts in proof of such ...
... earth , collected and recorded in the different works on geology . The investigations on this sub- ject have been principally made in Eu- rope and Asia . America has of late pre- sented abundant additional facts in proof of such ...
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... earth , since the creation of ani- mated beings , was covered with water to that level , and consequently the revolu- tions which appear to have taken place in the higher mountains were produced at a period anterior to the existence of ...
... earth , since the creation of ani- mated beings , was covered with water to that level , and consequently the revolu- tions which appear to have taken place in the higher mountains were produced at a period anterior to the existence of ...
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Page 390 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened ; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left : and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt...
Page 207 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more...
Page 327 - At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air...
Page 89 - O'ER the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free. Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home ! These are our realms, no limits to their sway — Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. Ours the wild life in tumult still to range From toil to rest, and joy in every change.
Page 206 - And all things weigh'd in custom's falsest scale ; Opinion an omnipotence — whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness, until right And wrong are accidents, and men grow pale Lest their own judgments should become too bright, And their free thoughts be crimes, and earth have too much light.
Page 115 - He fell into a fit of crying the moment he came into the chapel, and flung himself back in a stall, the archbishop hovering over him with a smelling-bottle; but in two minutes his curiosity got the better of his hypocrisy, and he ran about the chapel with his glass to spy who was or was not there, spying with one hand, and mopping his eyes with the other.
Page 165 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ; Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war ; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pined alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown...
Page 206 - The moon is up, and yet it is not night; Sunset divides the sky with her; a sea Of glory streams along the Alpine height Of blue Friuli's mountains; Heaven is free From clouds, but of all colours seems to be, — Melted to one vast Iris of the West, — Where the Day joins the past Eternity, While, on the other hand, meek Dian's crest Floats through the azure air — an island of the blest!
Page 115 - Attending the funeral of a father could not be pleasant: his leg extremely bad, yet forced to stand upon it near two hours; his face bloated and distorted with his late paralytic stroke, which has affected, too, one of his eyes, and placed...
Page 403 - ... the free and ingenuous sort of such as evidently were born to study and love learning for itself, not for lucre or any other end but the service of God and of truth, and perhaps that lasting fame and perpetuity of praise which God and good men have consented shall be the reward of those whose published labours advance the good of mankind...