Edinburgh and Its Neighbourhood, Geological and Historical: With The Geology of the Bass RockA. & C. Black, 1864 - 313 pagina's |
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ages amid ancient appearance associated Bass bear beds beneath bottom broken building Castle century character church clay coal coast comparatively considerable course covered curious deep deposit depth district Edinburgh entire erection evidence existing fact feet four furnished geologic greatly ground half hills hollow hundred immediately instance interest island known laid lake land late least length less light living look lower marked mass Measures mile minute natural nearly neighbourhood North numerous occupied occur once origin passed period portion present Professor referred regarded remains remark rest rising rock sand sandstone says scarce scene Scotland Seat seems seen served shells shore side species specimens stand stone stood strata surface thousand tide Town tract trap trees upper valley various vast walls waves zone
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Pagina 237 - Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. 7: The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
Pagina 213 - We live in better times; and we are not afraid to say that, though there were many clever men in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century, there were only two minds which possessed the imaginative faculty in a very eminent degree. One of those minds produced the Paradise Lost, the other the Pilgrim's Progress.
Pagina 214 - For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtile disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language, no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed.
Pagina 4 - A Manual of Botany : being an Introduction to the Study of the Structure, Physiology, and Classification of Plants.
Pagina 200 - The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know, And keenly felt the friendly glow, And softer flame ; But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name ! Reader, attend ! whether thy soul Soars fancy's flights beyond the pole, Or darkling grubs this earthly hole, In low pursuit ; Know, prudent, cautious, self-control Is wisdom's root.
Pagina 213 - The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a u 3 few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant.
Pagina 16 - Pirate. 14. Fortunes of Nigel. 15. Peveril of the Peak. 16 Quentin Durward. 17. St. Ronan's Well. 18. Redgauntlet. 19. The Betrothed. 20. The Talisman. 21. Woodstock. 22. Fair Maid of Perth. 23. Anne of Geierstein, or the Maiden of the Mist. 24. Count Robert of Paris. 25. Surgeon's Daughter — Castle Dangerous.
Pagina 228 - Fresh power to commune with the invisible world, And hear the mighty stream of tendency Uttering, for elevation of our thought, A clear sonorous voice, inaudible To the vast multitude ; whose doom it is To run the giddy round of vain delight, Or fret and labour on the Plain below.
Pagina 256 - On us who saw these phenomena for the first time, the impression made will not easily be forgotten. The palpable evidence presented to us, of one of the most extraordinary and important facts in the natural history of the earth, gave a reality and substance to those theoretical speculations, which, however probable, had never till now been directly authenticated by the testimony of the senses. We often said to ourselves, What clearer evidence could we have had of the different formation of these...
Pagina 202 - Strong sense, deep feeling, passions strong, A hate of tyrant and of knave, A love of right, a scorn of wrong, Of coward and of slave; A kind, true heart, a spirit high, That could not fear and would not bow. Were written in his manly eye And on his manly brow.