Glaucus; or, The wonders of the shoreMacmillan, 1856 - Broj stranica: 168 |
Ostala izdanja - Prikaži sve
Uobičajeni izrazi i fraze
Actinia admirable Algæ animalcules animals Annelid Aquarium beautiful bivalve brilliant British BROOKE FOSS WESTCOTT Cambridge CHARLES KINGSLEY Christian Church cliff cloth coast colour comparative anatomy coral coralline creatures Crown 8vo Crustacea curious delicate Devon Divine dredge eyes fancy Fcap Fellow of Trinity fish Flustra forest forms fresh give Gosse Gosse's green grey grow habits honour Hugh Miller hundred lake learning living flowers London look Lord Madrepore marine microscope mind mollusc mouth Natural History naturalist never Nudibranchs Paignton pebble perfect perhaps pink plants polype Professor PUBLISHED BY MACMILLAN QUARTERLY reader rocks round salt salt-water sand scientific sea-anemones sea-side sea-water sea-weeds Second Edition seen Sermons Sertularia shell shore side species specimens spirit stone strange tanks things tide tiny Torbay Trinity College University of Cambridge vase vegetable walk weeds whole wonder Zoological zoophytes
Popularni odlomci
Stranica 8 - Christ and other Masters. A Historical Inquiry into some of the Chief Parallelisms and Contrasts between Christianity and the Religious Systems of the Ancient World. New Edition, revised, and a Prefatory Memoir by the Rev. FRANCIS PROCTER.
Stranica 86 - Lord, thou hast been our refuge, from one generation to another. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made, thou art God from everlasting, and world without end.
Stranica 29 - And also those which wonne in th' azure sky : For much more eath to tell the starres on hy, Albe they endlesse seeme in estimation, Then to recount the Seas posterity : So fertile be the flouds in generation, So huge their numbers, and so numberlesse their nation. Therefore the antique wisards well invented That Venus of the fomy sea was bred, For that the seas by her are most augmented : Witnesse th' exceeding fry which there are fed, And wondrous sholes which may of none be red.
Stranica 3 - ... and threatening to settle down in wintry gloom on the summer of many a fair and promising young life
Stranica 1 - And an Introduction, explanatory of his position in the Church, with reference to the Parties which divide it. 3 vols. 8vo. cloth, £1 11*.
Stranica 14 - In one respect, it may be taken as a sign of the times. It is a small unpretending volume in appearance, but it is based on learning enough to have...
Stranica 2 - We cannot assent to all the positions laid down by this writer, but he is entitled to be spoken respectfully of, both because of his evident earnestness and reality, and the tender mode in which he deals with the opinions of others from whom he feels compelled to differ-
Stranica 10 - Happy, truly, is the naturalist. He has no time for melancholy dreams. The earth becomes to him transparent ; everywhere he sees significances, harmonies, laws, chains of cause and effect endlessly interlinked, which draw him out of the narrow sphere of self-interest and self-pleasing, into a pure and wholesome region of solemn joy and wonder.