Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Tom 7

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Strona 250 - The charm dissolves apace ; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.
Strona 400 - The dance gaed thro' the lighted ha', To thee my fancy took its wing, I sat, but neither heard nor saw: Tho' this was fair, and that was braw, And yon the toast of a' the town, I sigh'd and said amang them a'; — "Ye are na Mary Morison!
Strona 443 - Joying to hear the birds' sweet harmony, Which therein shrouded from the tempest dread, Seem'd in their song to scorn the cruel sky. Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing Pine, the Cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop Elm, the Poplar never dry, The builder Oak, sole king of forests all, The Aspen good for staves, the Cypress funeral...
Strona 64 - A Narrative of the Miseries of New England by reason of an arbitrary Government erected there (by Increase Mather).
Strona 468 - Of dragon-watch, with unenchanted eye, To save her blossoms and defend her fruit From the rash hand of bold Incontinence.
Strona 441 - By her the heaven is in his course contained, And all the world in state unmoved stands, As their Almightie Maker first ordained, And bound them with inviolable bands ; Else would the waters overflow the lands, And fire devoure the ayre, and hell them quight; But that she holds them with her blessed hands.
Strona 449 - Hiems' thin and icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set; the spring, the summer, The childing autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world. By their increase, now knows not which is which; And this same progeny of evils comes From our debate, from our dissension; We are their parents and original.
Strona 11 - To give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific inquiry; to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate science in different parts of the British Empire with one another, and with foreign philosophers ; to obtain a more general attention to the objects of science, and a removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress.
Strona 97 - He told me," says his biographer, " it was upon those occasions his common way, to begin about nine in the morning, with a prayer for about a quarter of an hour, in which he begged a blessing on the work of the day ; and afterwards read and expounded a chapter or psalm, in which he spent about three quarters of an hour; then prayed for about an hour, preached for another hour, and prayed for about half an hour.
Strona 366 - Collections towards the History and Antiquities of the county of Hereford, by John Duncumb.

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