The Library Magazine of American and Foreign Thought, Volumul 9American Book Exchange, 1883 |
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Pagina 189 - There can be no doubt that the land round the Bay of Concepcion was upraised two or three feet; but it deserves notice, that owing to the wave having obliterated the old lines of tidal action on the sloping sandy shores, I could discover no evidence of this fact, except in the united testimony of the inhabitants, that one little rocky shoal, now exposed, was formerly covered with water.
Pagina 219 - If men could be satisfied with pure knowledge, the extreme precision with which, in these days, a sufferer may be told what is happening and what is likely to happen, even in the most recondite parts of his bodily frame, should be as satisfactory to the patient as it is to the scientific pathologist who gives him the information.
Pagina 226 - It will, in short, become possible to introduce into the economy a molecular mechanism which, like a very cunningly contrived torpedo, shall find its way to some particular group of living elements, and cause an explosion among them, leaving the rest untouched.
Pagina 258 - When we arrived * a considerable agitation was perceptible. The water was surging up and down a short distance below, and when we could not see it for the cloud of vapour its gurgling noise remained distinctly audible. We had not long to wait before the water began to be jerked out in occasional spurts. Then suddenly, with a tremendous roar, a column of mingled water and steam rushed up for...
Pagina 271 - Perfection of housekeeping was her clear and speedy attainment in that new scene. Strange how she made the desert blossom for herself and me there ; what a fairy palace she had made of that wild moorland home of the poor man ! In my life I have seen no human intelligence that so genuinely pervaded every fibre of the human existence it belonged to. From the baking of a loaf, or the darning of a stocking, up to comporting herself in the highest scenes or most intricate emergencies, all was insight,...
Pagina 73 - ... Arnold. He is a Wykehamist and Fellow of Oriel, and a particular friend of mine — a man calculated beyond all others to engraft modern scholarship and modern improvements on the old-fashioned stem of a public education. Winchester under him would be the best school in Europe ; what Rugby may turn out I cannot say, for I know not the materials he has there to work on." A few weeks later he added — " FLORENCE, April 19, 1828. — I am so little satisfied with what I said about Arthur in my...
Pagina 152 - The Mill on the Floss is perhaps the most striking instance extant of this study of cutaneous disease. There is not a single person in the book of the smallest importance to anybody in the world but themselves, or whose qualities deserved so much as a line of printer's type in their description. There is no girl alive, fairly clever, half educated, and unluckily related, whose life has not at least as much in it as Maggie's, to be described and to be pitied. Tom is a clumsy and cruel lout, with the...
Pagina 152 - And it is very necessary that we should distinguish this essentially Cockney literature, developed only in the London suburbs, and feeding the demand of the rows of similar brick houses, which branch in devouring cancer round every manufacturing town, — from the really romantic literature of France.
Pagina 76 - I am writing in the midst of an academy of art. Just now there are Arthur and Mary drawing and painting at one table ; Charlie deep in the study of fishes and hooks, and drawing varieties of both at another ; and Catherine with her slate full of houses with thousands of windows. Charlie is fishing mad, and knows how to catch every sort, and just now he informs me that to catch a bream you must go out before breakfast. He 'is just as fond as ever of Arthur. You would like to see Arthur examine him,...
Pagina 58 - There are no springs or streams. Into the soil, parched by the fierce heats of a torrid summer, the moisture of the sub-soil ascends by capillary attraction, carrying with it the saline solutions it has extracted from the rocks. At the surface it is at once evaporated, leaving behind a white crust or efflorescence, which covers the bare ground and encrusts the pebbles strewn thereon. Vegetation wholly fails, save here and there a bunch of salt-weed or a bush of the ubiquitous sage-brush, the parched...