Calendar of the McGill University, Montreal

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McGill University, 1865

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Página 92 - tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper : Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour...
Página 61 - Knowledge in general, expands the mind, exalts the faculties, refines the taste of pleasure, and opens innumerable sources of intellectual enjoyment. By means of it, we become less dependent for satisfaction upon the sensitive appetites ; the gross pleasures of sense are more easily despised, and we are made to feel the superiority of the spiritual to the material part of our nature.
Página 23 - C'est à vous que je parle, ma sœur. Le moindre solécisme en parlant vous irrite ; Mais vous en faites, vous, d'étranges en conduite. Vos livres éternels ne me contentent pas ; Et, hors...
Página 23 - Otway has followed nature in the language of his tragedy, and therefore shines in the passionate parts, more than any of our English poets. As there is something familiar and domestic in the fable of his tragedy, more than in those of any other poet, he has little pomp, but great force in his expressions.
Página 68 - C' (89) (90) (91) (92) (93) 112. In any plane triangle, the sum of any two sides is to their difference as the tangent of half the sum of the opposite angles is to the tangent of half their difference.
Página 36 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet...
Página 61 - ... made to feel the superiority of the spiritual to the material part of our nature. Instead of being continually solicited by the influence and irritation of sensible objects, the mind can retire within herself, and expatiate in the cool and quiet walks of contemplation. The Author of nature...
Página 32 - If three straight lines meet all in one point, and a straight line stand at right angles to each of them in that point; these three straight lines are in one and the same plane. Let the straight line AB stand at right angles to each of the straight lines BC, BD, BE, in B the point where they meet; BC, BD, BE shall be in one and the same plane.
Página 7 - In every triangle, the square of a side opposite an acute angle is less than the sum of the squares of the other two sides...
Página 36 - The old song of Chevy-Chase is the favourite ballad of the common people of England, and Ben Jonson used to say he had rather have been the author of it than of all his works.

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