Chambers's Edinburgh journal, conducted by W. Chambers. [Continued as] Chambers's Journal of popular literature, science and arts, المجلد 20 |
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الصفحة 253 - a should not think of God ; I hoped there was no need to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet: So, 'a bade me lay more clothes on his feet : I put my hand into the bed, and felt them, and they were as cold as any stone ; then I felt to his knees, and so upward, and upward, and all was as cold as any stone.
الصفحة 254 - Rejoice, O young man in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes ; but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
الصفحة 254 - Verse, a breeze mid blossoms straying, Where Hope clung feeding, like a bee — Both were mine ! Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young ! When I was young ? — Ah, woful When ! Ah ! for the change...
الصفحة 147 - THE YOUTH AND THE PHILOSOPHER^ A GRECIAN youth of talents rare, Whom Plato's philosophic care, Had form'd for virtue's nobler view, By precept and example too, Would often boast his matchless skill, To curb the steed, and guide the wheel ; And as he pass'd the gazing throng, With graceful ease, and smack'd the thong* The idiot wonder they express'd, Was praise and transport to his breast.
الصفحة 254 - What strange disguise hast now put on To make believe that Thou art gone ? 1 see these locks in silvery slips, This drooping gait, this altered size : But springtide blossoms on thy lips, And tears take sunshine from thine eyes ! Life is but thought; so think I will That Youth and I are house-mates still.
الصفحة 253 - ... not to me of a name great in story ! The days of our youth are the days of our glory : And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.
الصفحة 112 - ... that others should be sublimed into smelling salts, and that the remainder of his body should be vitrified into lenses for optical purposes.
الصفحة 291 - I committed Cromes, a broker in Longe Lane, the 16 of Febru. 1634, to the Marshalsey, for lending a church-robe with the name of JESUS upon it, to the players in Salisbury Court, to present a Flamen, a priest of the heathens.
الصفحة 334 - The hop for his profit I thus do exalt, It strengthened drink, and it favoureth malt ; And being well brewed, long kept it will last, And drawing abide — if ye draw not too fast.
الصفحة 21 - The lamp is a delicate arrangement of machinery, holding the two carbons between which the electric light exists, and regulating their adjustment; so that whilst they gradually consume away, the place of the light shall not be altered. The electric wires end in the two bars of a small railway, and upon these the lamp stands. When the carbons of a lamp are nearly gone, that lamp is lifted off and another instantly pushed into its place. The machines and lamp have done their duty during the past six...