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... Berlin , and perhaps one of the most remarkable courses of lectures ever delivered . They were : - Five lectures treating of the Nature and the Limits of Physical Geography , and including a General Sketch of Nature . Three on the ...
... Berlin , and perhaps one of the most remarkable courses of lectures ever delivered . They were : - Five lectures treating of the Nature and the Limits of Physical Geography , and including a General Sketch of Nature . Three on the ...
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... Berlin assembled , but from the most remote parts of Germany , the friends of science hastened to Berlin , in order to hear at least one of Humboldt's lectures , and to make his personal acquaintance . Night after night , the late King ...
... Berlin assembled , but from the most remote parts of Germany , the friends of science hastened to Berlin , in order to hear at least one of Humboldt's lectures , and to make his personal acquaintance . Night after night , the late King ...
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... Berlin and Spandau . This little castle had been originally a hunting- box of the great Elector of Brandenburg ; and even in the time of Frederick the Great a royal preserve was kept in the neighbourhood . Major von Humboldt selected ...
... Berlin and Spandau . This little castle had been originally a hunting- box of the great Elector of Brandenburg ; and even in the time of Frederick the Great a royal preserve was kept in the neighbourhood . Major von Humboldt selected ...
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... Berlin . Both brothers spent a great part of their youth at this castle of Tegel , and their earliest impressions are intimately connected with this place . A mysterious , though by no means uncommon rumour , was connected with this ...
... Berlin . Both brothers spent a great part of their youth at this castle of Tegel , and their earliest impressions are intimately connected with this place . A mysterious , though by no means uncommon rumour , was connected with this ...
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... Berlin , -walked , one morning , by way of Schönhausen to Tegel , re- mained there to dinner , and returned by way of Charlottenburg to Potsdam . On that occa- sion he met two lively boys , ten and eight years of age , and could ...
... Berlin , -walked , one morning , by way of Schönhausen to Tegel , re- mained there to dinner , and returned by way of Charlottenburg to Potsdam . On that occa- sion he met two lively boys , ten and eight years of age , and could ...
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Page 190 - His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void ; And sure the eternal Master found The single talent well employed.
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Page 207 - Through this day's life or death. This day be bread and peace my lot ; All else beneath the sun Thou know'st if best bestowed or not, And let thy will be done. To thee, whose temple is all space ; Whose altar, earth, sea, skies ; One chorus let all being raise ! • All nature's incense rise ! ODE ON SOLITUDE.
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Page 202 - The investigations of Wolff, Goethe, and von Baer, have established the truth that the series of changes gone through during the development of a seed into a tree, or an ovum into an animal, constitute an advance from homogeneity of structure to heterogeneity of structure.