Address to the members of the Tyneside naturalists' field club. (From Nat. hist. trans. of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne).1883 - 21 páginas |
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Página 20 - But howsoever these things. are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Página 20 - ... (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Página 20 - The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light of reason; and his Sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his spirit. First he breathed light upon the face of the matter, or chaos; then he breathed light into the face of man; and still he breatheth and inspireth light into the face of his chosen.
Página 12 - 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...
Página 20 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below...
Página 20 - Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Página 9 - Let us welcome then the strangers, Hail them as our friends and brothers, And the heart's right hand of friendship Give them when they come to see us. Gitche Manito, the Mighty, Said this to me in my vision.
Página 12 - Association, that the foundation of the whole of geological science — that is, the interpretation of the phenomena presented to us in the study of the earth's crust — must be based upon the study of the changes at present going on upon the surface of the earth, of course including the depths of the sea.
Página 18 - April 18th, 1883.] NEXT to frequent readings of the barometer, and a knowledge of the distribution of atmospheric pressure, observation of the character of clouds, especially of cirrus, is of the greatest use in attempting to forecast the weather. If, as I believe, certain kinds of upper cloud are almost invariably followed within a definite area by certain kinds of weather, every one who depends much on atmospheric conditions...
Página 5 - And so we bade farewell, for this season at least, to the pastures So sunny and bright ! The herdsman must leave you When summer takes flight. We shall come to the mountains again when the voice Of the cuckoo is heard, bidding all things rejoice, When the earth dons her fairest and freshest array, And the streamlets are flowing in beautiful May. Ye pastures and meadows, Farewell then once more ! The herdsman must go, For the summer is o'er.