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“I love you well, my own dear Gräuben!”
science is eminently perfectible; and every new theory is soon routed by a newer.
When science has uttered her voice, let babblers hold their peace.”
How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise of the thinking faculty!
The deeply indented shore was lined with a breadth of fine shining sand, softly lapped by the waves, and strewn with the small shells that had been inhabited by the first of created beings.
It was not the light of the sun, with his dazzling shafts of brightness and the splendor of his rays; nor was it the pale and uncertain shimmer of the moonbeams, the dim reflection of a nobler body of light.
under the shade of those arborescent trees.
“Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors that it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.”
The probable rage of the conqueror inspires us with intense fear.
The electric light can scarcely penetrate through the dense curtain that has dropped over the theater on which the battle of the elements is about to be waged.
The lately roaring winds are hushed into a dead calm; nature seems to breathe no more, and to be sinking into the stillness of death.
Then, like a child, I closed my eyes firmly, not to see the darkness.
Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.
learned man is always a philosopher when he succeeds in remaining cool,
