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Page 12 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky : So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! " The child is father of the man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Page 123 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
Page 75 - Her white wings flying — never from her foes — She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife.
Page 8 - I asked myself. The waters are never weary; they know no other law than to flow without ceasing - from morning till night, and from night till morning; but where do they stop? And who makes them flow thus? The clouds also come and go, and burst in water over the earth. Whence come they? Who sends them?
Page 9 - I cannot see the wind, but what is it? Who brings it, makes it blow, and roar, and terrify us ? " Do I know how the corn sprouts? Yesterday there was not a blade in my field ; to-day I returned to the field and found some. Who can have given to the earth the wisdom and the power to produce it ? " " Then I buried my face in both my hands.
Page 8 - Twelve years ago I went to feed my flocks. The weather was hazy. I sat down upon a rock and asked myself sorrowful questions; yes, sorrowful, because I was unable to answer them. " 'Who has touched the stars with his hands? On what pillars do they rest?
Page 8 - Twelve years ago, I went to feed my flocks. I sat down upon a rock, and asked myself sorrowful questions, — yes, sorrowful, because I was unable to answer them.
Page 137 - ... expressing the duplicity of the state of desire is the result. One has only to recall his own experiences in school or at the present time when outwardly employed in actions which do not engage one's desires and purposes, to realize how prevalent is this attitude of divided attention — double-mindedness. We are so used to it that we take it for granted that a considerable amount of it is necessary. It may be; if so, it is the more important to face its bad intellectual effects. Obvious is the...
Page 84 - atoms " — a Greek word meaning " a thing which cannot be cut up into smaller bits." The guess was a brilliant one, for in those days there were no laboratories stocked with all manner of marvellous instruments and devices for examining matter.
Page 101 - ... square. The EMF depends on the chemical properties of the materials used and not on the size of the electrodes nor on the distance between them. 89. Calculation of EMF From Heat of Combination. — The combination of a gram-molecule of a substance with any other substance produces an amount of heat that is always the same (under the same conditions) for the same substance. Under the proper conditions this heat may appear in the form of electrical energy. The greater the affinity between the combining...