Harry and Lucy Concluded;: Being the Last Part of Early Lessons, 第 80 篇，第 4 卷R. Hunter, ... and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1827 - 354 頁 |
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第 138 頁 - A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. Fired at first sight with what the Muse imparts. In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts. While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind; But more advanced, behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise!
第 139 頁 - While from the bounded level of our mind, Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind; But more advanc'd, behold with strange surprise, New distant scenes of endless science rise! So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky, Th...
第 301 頁 - I discovered in almost every specimen a grooved structure, like the delicate texture of the skin at the top of an infant's finger, or like the section of the annual growths of wood, as seen upon a dressed 'plank of fir. These may sometimes be seen by the naked eye, but they are often so minute that 3000 of them are contained in an inch.
第 248 頁 - I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely and in train; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that, having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they shall have occasion.
第 172 頁 - As we approached we perceived that the people on board were getting into another boat on the opposite side. She pushed off. We hailed her. Have you all on board ? Yes, all save one.
第 21 頁 - Leyden, of much eminence, said that " he felt himself struck in his arms, shoulders, and breast, so that he lost his breath ; and it was two days before he recovered from the effects of the blow and the terror ; adding, that he would not take a second shock for the kingdom of France.
第 211 頁 - Mortals, wouldst thou know the grains That Ceres heaps on Libya's plains, Or leaves that yellow Autumn strews, Or the stars that Herschel views, Or find how many drops would drain The wide-scooped bosom of the main, Or measure central depths...
第 173 頁 - ... ocean, thankful to God for his mercies. Poor Sophia having been taken out of her bed, had nothing on but a wrapper, neither shoes nor stockings; the children were just as taken out of bed, whence one had been snatched after the flames had attacked it. In short, there was not time for any one to think of more than two things — Can the ship be saved ? No ; let us save ourselves, then; all else was swallowed up in one great ruin.
第 172 頁 - NNE course, as well as we could ; no chance, no possibility being left, that we could again approach the ship ; for she was now one splendid flame, fore and aft, and aloft, her masts and sails in a blaze, and rocking to and fro, threatening to fall in an instant. There goes her mizen mast! Pull away, my boys ! There goes the gunpowder ! Thank God ! thank God ! " You may judge of our situation without further particulars.