Waste: a Lecture Delivered at the Bristol Institution for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and the Arts, on Tuesday, February the 10th, 1863Bell and Daldy, 1863 - 51페이지 |
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15 페이지 - Thou makest thine appeal to me: I bring to life, I bring to death: The spirit does but mean the breath: I know no more.
10 페이지 - We behold the face of nature bright with gladness, we often see superabundance of food ; we do not see or we forget that the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects or seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life ; or we forget how largely these songsters, or their 'From Chap.
26 페이지 - The valuable library of Alexandria was pillaged or destroyed; and near twenty years afterwards the appearance of the empty shelves excited the regret and indignation of every spectator, whose mind was not totally darkened by religious prejudice. The compositions of ancient genius, so many of which have irretrievably perished, might surely have been excepted from the wreck of idolatry, for the amusement and instruction of succeeding ages; and either the zeal or avarice of the archbishop might have...
41 페이지 - I have heard some with deep sighs lament the lost lines of Cicero; others with as many groans deplore the combustion of the library of Alexandria. For my own part, I think there be too many in the world...
16 페이지 - ... infection of the air. Many other cities probably presented a similar appearance; and it is ascertained, that a great number of small country towns and villages, which have been estimated, and not too highly, at 200,000, were bereft of all their inhabitants. In many places in France, not more than two out twenty of the inhabitants were left alive, and the capital felt the fury of the plague, alike in the palace and the cot.
26 페이지 - Jews bumt the books of the Christians and the Pagans ; and the Christians burnt the books of the Pagans and the Jews. The greater part of the books of ORIGEN and other heretics were continually burnt by the orthodox party.
41 페이지 - Tis not a melancholy Utinam of my own, but the desires of better heads, that there were a general Synod; not to unite the incompatible difference of Religion, but for the benefit of learning, to reduce it as it lay at first, in a few and solid Authors; and to condemn to the fire those swarms and millions of Rhapsodies, begotten only to distract and abuse the weaker judgements of Scholars, and to maintain the trade and mystery of Typographers.
42 페이지 - ... had adjudged the first place of genius and glory : the teachers of ancient knowledge, who are still extant, had perused and compared the writings of their predecessors ; nor can it fairly be presumed that any important truth, any useful discovery in art or nature, has been snatched away from the curiosity of modern ages.
42 페이지 - Monophysite controversy were indeed consumed in the public baths, a philosopher may allow, with a smile, that it was ultimately devoted to the benefit of mankind. I sincerely regret the more valuable libraries which have been involved in the ruin of the Roman empire; but, when I seriously compute the lapse of ages, the waste of ignorance, and the calamities of war, our treasures, rather than our losses, are the object of my surprise.
12 페이지 - That the extinction of many of the existing races of animals must soon take place," says Dr. MANTELL, " from the immense destruction occasioned by man, cannot admit of doubt. In those which supply fur, a remarkable proof of this inference is cited in a late number of ' The American Journal of Science.