The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 89W. Curry, jun., and Company, 1877 |
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... Professor Sir William , 560 . Thomson , Sir Charles Wyville , 696 . Treasures of Egypt , 591 . Tyndall , Professor , 30 . Wallis , C. J. , On French Political Journalism , 289 . Wanderings in Elysium , 117 . White House , The , 450 ...
... Professor Sir William , 560 . Thomson , Sir Charles Wyville , 696 . Treasures of Egypt , 591 . Tyndall , Professor , 30 . Wallis , C. J. , On French Political Journalism , 289 . Wanderings in Elysium , 117 . White House , The , 450 ...
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... PROFESSOR TYNDALL , LL.D. , D.C.L. , F.R.S. A MARKED feature of the present time is the importance attached to Science , both as a source of national prosperity and a means of mental cultivation . Together with art it constitutes a ...
... PROFESSOR TYNDALL , LL.D. , D.C.L. , F.R.S. A MARKED feature of the present time is the importance attached to Science , both as a source of national prosperity and a means of mental cultivation . Together with art it constitutes a ...
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... Professor Tyndall may claim kinship with William Tyndall , the well - known martyr , who was burnt to death , in 1536 , for his zeal in translating the Bible . Family tradition and documents cited by Mr. Greenfield show that , about two ...
... Professor Tyndall may claim kinship with William Tyndall , the well - known martyr , who was burnt to death , in 1536 , for his zeal in translating the Bible . Family tradition and documents cited by Mr. Greenfield show that , about two ...
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... Professor Tyndall is now 56 years of age . He was born Leighlin Bridge , of which only a fragment now remains . His father's chief anxiety was to secure for him the best possible education . Hence he was careful to send him to as good a ...
... Professor Tyndall is now 56 years of age . He was born Leighlin Bridge , of which only a fragment now remains . His father's chief anxiety was to secure for him the best possible education . Hence he was careful to send him to as good a ...
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... Professor Tyndall's career is strikingly obvious to even a cursory reader of his popular lectures , but can be fully understood only by those who are qualified to estimate the value of his various contribu- tions to science . In April ...
... Professor Tyndall's career is strikingly obvious to even a cursory reader of his popular lectures , but can be fully understood only by those who are qualified to estimate the value of his various contribu- tions to science . In April ...
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Page 760 - Full fathom five thy father lies, Of his bones are coral made : Those are pearls that were his eyes, Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea change, Into something rich and strange.
Page 764 - Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, — These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength ; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her with his length, These are the spells by which to re-assume An empire o'er the disentangled Doom.
Page 764 - To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory.
Page 98 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Page 763 - Throughout this varied and eternal world Soul is the only element: the block That for uncounted ages has remained The moveless pillar of a mountain's weight Is active, living spirit. Every grain Is sentient both in unity and part, And the minutest atom comprehends A world of loves and hatreds...
Page 763 - Hold thou the good : define it well : For fear divine Philosophy Should push beyond her mark, and be Procuress to the Lords of Hell.
Page 100 - The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil, in my native tongue. I tuned my wild, artless notes, as she inspired.
Page 228 - ... movemur enim nescio quo pacto locis ipsis, in quibus eorum, quos diligimus aut admiramur, adsunt vestigia.
Page 765 - Man, one harmonious soul of many a soul, Whose nature is its own divine control, Where all things flow to all, as rivers to the sea...
Page 40 - NOTES of a COURSE of SEVEN LECTURES On ELECTRICAL PHENOMENA and THEORIES, delivered at the Royal Institution AD 1870.