The Phenomena of the Universe; or a Natural and Experimental Historyfor the foundation of Philosophy.
To speak therefore of these (seeing in a general history we should have left a great deal of nakedness, by their omission) it cannot properly be called a digression.
Ye shall see also in the history of Boccaccio, in his book 'De casu principum,' part of his noble acts and also of his fall.
And therefore the third part of the work embraces the Phenomena of the Universe; that is to say, experience of every kind, and such a natural history as may serve for a foundation to build philosophy upon.
In a word, we may gather out of history a policy no less wise than eternal; by the comparison and application of other men's fore-passed miseries with our own like errors and ill deservings.
There is not much nearer approach to unity of action in the tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, than in the history of Richard the Second.
History was a series of actions, with no other than chronological succession, independent on each other, and without any tendency to introduce or regulate the conclusion.
From a gentleman at the institution we gleaned the following in relation to the victim and his family, which he assured us was the correct history of the affair.
Dugdale has quoted from the historyof Thomas de la Marc, that William, Earl Of Salisbury, having in 16 Edw.
Lebahn's Henry von Eichenfels, Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl, Egmont by Goethe, Wilhelm Tell by Schiller.
Hell upon Earth; or the most pleasant and delectable History of Whittington's Colledge, otherwise (vulgarly) called Newgate.
There is an engraving of the Bed of Ware in Clutterbuck's History of Hertfordshire, and another in Shaw's Ancient Furniture.
Does history in any way support the story of the battle?
In the sixth volume of Lord Mahon's History of England, chap.
But I was then, and still am, at loss to account for the presence of German soldiers upon the English coast so far from London, which history suggests would have been the natural goal of an invader.
Among the books and papers of Admiral Porter Turck, who lived two hundred years ago, and from whom I am descended, many volumes still exist, and are in my possession, which deal with the history and geography of ancient Europe.
It was only what ancient history might have led me to expect--musicians, dancing girls, jugglers, and the like.
Goldsmith is contemplating the writing of a history of the attempted reformation of society in the eighteenth century, through the agency of a Greek temple known as the Pantheon on the Oxford road.
Ah, the money is in hand; the Natural History is left to the imagination," said Reynolds.
When I heard his history I marvelled and said in my mind, "I am the Prince Ajib who hath done all this; but as Allah is with me I will surely not slay him!
This, then, O Commander of the Faithful, is the history of my six brothers and I feared to go away without relating it all to thee and leave thee in the error of judging me to be like them.
The Wazir acquainted him with his history and told him that the Minister Nur al-Din was his brother; whereupon the Sultan exclaimed, "Allah have mercy upon him!
Then came forward the Jewish physician and kissing the ground said, "O King of the age, I will tell thee an history more wonderful than that of the Hunchback.
See Al-Siyuti's famous "History of the Caliphs" translated and admirably annotated by Major H.
A new era in the history of India begins in the fourth century A.
Celebrated in heathen mythology as the scene of the adventure of Perseus and Andromeda, in Scripture history as the port from which Jonas embarked and city in which Peter raised Tabitha.
The history of Chinese currency is henceforth a continual struggle between the government and the counterfeiter.
Famous in biblical history as city in which St. Peter preached to Cornelius, and St. Paul was incarcerated for two years.
Only ruins remain of ancient city famous in Biblical history from time of Abraham's digging a well and planting a grove.
The whole tendency of the more modern investigation shows that the period of myth-transmission is long over ere history begins.
A glance at English history will show the large part of it they fill, and how they took tribute from the Anglo-Saxons, who, by the way, were far nearer kin to them than is usually thought.
The language and history of Greece and Rome, their laws and religions, have been always held part of the learning needful to an educated man, but no trouble has been taken to make him familiar with his own people or their tongue.
Egyptian history held some incident upon which the story of "Aïda" was finally built.
The history of opera should be known and composers classified, just as it is desirable to know and to classify authors, painters, sculptors, and actors.
His musical history may be divided into three periods, and in the last he approached Wagner in greatness, and frequently surpassed him in beauty of idea.
To this letter, which takes possession of my whole soul and renews my errors as well as my wishes, I can add nothing more, than that to-day the first man in this history has been buried on a mountain.
But this history is nowhere safe, hardly in the most faithful bosom, least of all on this paper.
Afterward I took him round through the improvements in our grove and he told me, I fancy, the history of his marked finger; he is very wild towards his equals, but withal uncommonly obliging to ladies.
When I woke up, I thought at first I had been dreaming; but upon becoming more wide awake I observed that, with the exception of names, it was the stolen history of my own neighborhood.
It is better for me to make myself merely the compositor of this history and copy off the painful letter which Gustavus sent to his forfeited friend.
Only it does my whole biography harm, that the persons whom I have set to work at the same time set me to work, and that the writer of this historyor protocol is himself one of the heroes and parties.
But soon he fell into my own condition and was obliged himself to do one after the other--when we came to a historywhich put us, namely the whole hypochondriacal committee of safety, to shame; which I nevertheless relate.
There is nothing more thrilling in the pages of modern historythan the story of the man (James McPartland) who uncovered the conspiracies of the Molly McGuires.
This young woman, whose history was pathetic in the extreme, was shown clearly by the evidence to have deliberately taken the life of her child by giving it carbolic acid.
Mr. Beet seems to have confused his history and mixed up the white handkerchief of the Huguenots of Nantes with the strike-breakers of Pennsylvania.
There is some ancienthistory in regard to these matters which ought to be retold in the light of modern knowledge; for example, the case of Patti, the Sicilian banker.
But let us press the history of Jones and Robinson a step further.
A shyster lawyer need but to keep his client off the stand and he can saturate the jury's mind with any facts concerning the defendant's respectability and history which his imagination is powerful enough to supply.
The next event in the latter's criminal historyis his appearance in court before a magistrate.
Of course, in her personal elucidation this tragi-comical history proved altogether unlike what it had been in reality.
And so you have the eternal mediocre history about an officer, about a shop clerk, about a baby and a superannuated father, who there, in the provinces, bewails his strayed daughter and implores her to return home.
They will tell you just such a conventionalized historyas you--yourself a man of conventionality and a vulgarian--will digest easiest of all.
This strange union is by no means unique in the history of the world's literature.
It is very nearly as true as any of the history in Billy's essay that didn't get a prize.
There is a King in French history who was fond of machinery, particularly clock-work, and he lost everything too, even his head.
And people don't know their fairy history nowadays; they mayn't know what the reward is.
And thus, finding what his soul delighted in, a willing and interested listener, Captain Carter launched into a history and description of Miss Camilla Roundtree.
Do you suppose any one around here knows much about the history of Miss Camilla and her family?
On the other hand, inquiry as to Duncan's history since he left his native land would be a delicate and expensive work, and perhaps even dangerous, if he should hear of it, and inquire about the inquirers.
About the article on Riehl's book, "The Natural History of German Life.
We are reading White's "History of Selborne" in the evening, with Boswell and the "Odyssey.
We are reading Harriet Martineau's history with edification, and otherwise feeding our souls, which flourish very well, notwithstanding November weather.
For the "History of the Netherlands" he got little more than fifteen shillings per sheet.
A characteristic reminiscence is that the chief thing she wanted to buy was Josephus's "History of the Jews;" and at the same bookshop her brother got her this he bought for himself a pair of hunting sketches.
We have lately read Harriet Martineau's Introduction to the "History of the Peace.
The work of today is the history of tomorrow, and we are its makers.
Think of the beautiful work of White--The Natural History of Selborne.
Adams and Washington, Franklin and Lincoln are names which shine out from the pages of history today, and back of each was a good and honored mother.
The History of the Flag, and how to fly it (see p.
The pages of the history of the future may hold your names in a high and honored place.
The history of the majority of the world's greatest millionaires is that they began life without a dollar.
Tell the history and object of the Declaration of Independence.
Of the exact nature of that interview we cannot speak, having nowhere discovered any memoranda to guide us, in the authentic documents from which this history is compiled.
If this veracious history were a narrative of the life and adventures of Mr. Jinks alone, we might follow the great conspirator in his various movements on this eventful day.
This true history has not yet been submitted to him.
The history is therefore done, and all ends here upon the bourne of comedy.
In which the History returns to Apple Orchard XLV.
Busy with the various fortunes of our other personages, we have not been able of late to give much attention to the noble poet, Roundjacket, with whose ambition and great thoughts, this history has heretofore somewhat concerned itself.
Bishop Kenneth's Catalogue may have been the source of this error, leading collectors to believe that the item was a true relation of an actual voyage, and possibly touching upon some phase of American history or geography.
DEFOE AND THE "ISLE OF PINES" I would apologize for taking so much time on a nine-page hoax did it not offer something positive in thehistory of English literature.
Here was another step in developing the history of this tract--the discovery of one of Johnson's issues, except for the title-page.
This story is the first of the gems in the necklace of gems that Eugene Sue felicitously named "The Mysteries of the People; or The History of a Proletarian Family Across the Ages.
It is a gem in the necklace of gems that the distinguished author has felicitously named The Mysteries of the People; or The History of a Proletarian Family Across the Ages.
This great historical story by the eminent French writer is one of the majestic series that cover the leading and successive episodes of the history of the human race.
This volume continues the history of the academy ship and her crew of boys, with their trips into the interior as well as voyages along the coast of Ireland and Scotland.
At the risk of letting the beef be burned, I told her briefly the history of the man, and that he was even then running from the officer, while I was in pursuit of him.
This volume relates thehistory of the American Squadron (Young America and Josephine) in the waters of France, with the journey of the students to Paris and through a portion of Switzerland.
The history of a smart girl, where fortunes are made to depend upon her good principles, her politeness, her determined perseverance, and her overcoming that foolish pride, which is a snare to the feet.
Sacred history shows that at all times, when the Church has been on earth, genealogies have been carefully kept and recorded.
He who has the receiving apparatus, in whose hands the key is held, may read from the record of the holy spirit, an imperishable history of all that has occurred during the ages that have passed in the world's history.
At various times in the history of the world, the Priesthood has been given by God to man and continued for various lengths of time.
Throughout history this power of man has been recognized and usually respected.
During the long history of the race, both strength and weakness have no doubt been added to the body.
In time the Church was organized precisely as was the primitive Church, and more fully than at any other time in the history of the world.
The Natural History of The Nights would be highly interesting.
Finally there is the Terminal Essay, in which Burton deals at great length not only with the origin and history of the Nights and matters erotic, but also with unnatural practices.
I ought," he says in one of his letters to Payne, "to go down to history as the man who rediscovered one Gold Country and rehabilitated a second, and yet lost heavily by the discoveries.
I do not think there is a more pathetic story in the history of literature than that which I have to tell of the last few weeks of Burton's life.
It is a history of Mohammed and his immediate successors.
I assured Mr. Payne that the public had been unjust to him simply because nobody had hitherto set himself the great task of comparing the two translations, and because the true history of the case had never been laid before them.
The historyof the Society may be summed up in a few words.
It is a history of the sword in all times and countries down to the Middle Ages,[FN#416] with numerous illustrations, the interest being mainly archaeological.
Thus we are telling for the first time the historyof Burton's friendships with Mr. F.
First, Burton himself was woefully inaccurate as an autobiographer, and we must also add regretfully that we have occasionally found him colouring history in order to suit his own ends.
Burton now commenced to write a work to be called El Islam, or the History of Mohammedanism; which, however, he never finished.
Now, therefore, hanging there on the wall, the war treasures of the house of Brander were page-marks for her memory, and she also was a book of the old history of the Northmen from the days of the gods to this hour of her own closing.
The imagination of the young will be fired by its stirring stories of English victories, and it will do much to make history popular.
Let the man who holds this language trace the history of Protestantism, and the growth of sectarian divisions, ending with Dr.
First, let their attention be fixed on the history of Christianity as learnt from universal tradition, and the writers of each successive generation.
