New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-07-24

knowingly on one side, and the Turkish cirneter-hke
Roots ard all be "a dreadful bright boy, that-
You would see him chew and smoke, II Il was not
for, idcen IN the TrlmOuniaIn City. and hsng MS
neither hrts cut OF Railroad car i you me, lllh IN
ore ard # he could by possibility lcngthen them so
as contnve 10 dol. or he VIII tell YOU percnahce'
With his tiny squeaking voice, We ar great PEG
pc by thunder the greatest on the alTtn ana csl 10
/ all thrcs double frSt-rate. from blowing up UNI
verse and half Il Il rnisbehaves. 20 blowing hali
soap-bufble. Now well put the Atlantic and me
Pacific N OUT-slde pockets any day, and REFUGE al
EUrCpc 70 10 Hhar and . grease spot, ana 30 iol III
and very soon not only this species Of Boosting, out
/ other uIFTaceful Dragging (Which. though mol 50
broad, IS yet sufficiently eXtravag anti VIII De ehule-
/ s cCLfned 10 this very young American.
As this people progress ard advance more ana
more. trey VII gan more NE hlrnilty OF Uue great
ness They Will feel the vast Responsiveness
tha. resi- upon Their titanic shoulders they VIII
weigh more what stupendous steps they nave yer 20
take-H hat almost InComp7oher great deSt4iles
slowly unfolding before them and these most
/ momenOus and grave conscientious VIII graiuAlIY
produce their effects and al length impress con'ih-
ualy their views. opinions. works, and even words
/ They Will feel more and more that their past anu
present colossal greatness does not MAKE future l
provcmert and pr0greSS-as Napoleon renOWn was
SAID to DO Of future fame-impOSSole. but lmpera-
uye-absolutely indispensable. Nature has cone 50
much FOR them. that 10 be commensurate Win her 20
I keep pace with their giant opportunities, they wHSt
act as giants.
And We must be Just, too FOR. verify what would
/ be boastag and hyperbohcal rhodomontate with
Nature speaks 10 them IN such grandlloquent strains
/ that she sets the example of tall taking But
must return TO "pes mofnnS'
We VIII take glimpse az the fashionable quarter
/ Of the town. Near the Common are a number OF
! verv handsome mansions and IN driving or walking
along the streets IN the nelghborhood of II you Will
see many splendid equPageS Of the merchant princes
/ and Processes of old "Shawmut' You Will often
meet a grOupC Of graceful ladies' perhaps going 10
shop in Washington-street, not only beautiful! but
/ with countenances of the most intellectual express
\ all Hoar arti- haita 70 hp Roe
ladies are particularly accomplished and amlaole
The gentlemen look Ike gentemen-not because
they have emoncolored Aid gloves. or PaTlsan
boots but from their whole air and manner ~ 10
being merely wcl-dresSed IN the neutrality-suspicious.
material sense OF the word. thai almost every BODY
IS \ nor IN the United States is a mob IN orodd-
cloth. II We NAV talk Of q rabblt m Republic, 1t Is
a rabble IN black SIX wal,tcoatS Gne favorie wear
/ among certain classes n Amerca} and well-bruShed
hats Therefore. 20 iooa really Ike a gentlemen IN
the United state, depends ln nowise on The clothes
but entirely on their wearer and the tailor has less
to 90 with manufacturers gentleman here, than IN
perhaps any other part OF the world For IN all other
countries you are t'e assisted 10 the conclusion
unWitunry by the dress but hcre not IN the letst'
and Won must irigc wholly ~ FAR Mote e d's1gfie.
or The reverse, OF the individual
The portions of the work relating to Panama.
Lima. Mexico and Havana viii perhaps be found
still more interesting TO many readers than the
extracts We have quoted. but we have no space
for further selection or remark.
l. COSMOS. AsgErcHoF AND PHysIc,I DESCRIPTION
or TIE UNIvER>E. b ALEXANDER voN HUMBOLDT.
Translated from tAe German by + c Ore, Vol ~,
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2 TIE SAVE WORK, l2no.. up. 2l9 HlperS Brothers
This is the conclusion OF Humboidl'S
great work on the phenomena of the material
universe which IN many respects NAV be regard
ed as thc most valuable contribution to popular
science in modern times. 1t Is equally dls'ln-
gu!shcd for rs profoundness, ITS comprehensive
ness. AMI It's modesty. The author, With the con
sciousness OF impcricctIon that mus, always ac-
company noble ideal, claims little more Tor his
work than It's tendency TO stimulate phiosophca'
research. and maintains that the true Book OF
Nature cannot be written until the science of the
material world, and Of the spiritual world As well,
shall have attained a degree of Advancement
which is not admitted IN the present state OF hui
man knowledge He has, indeed, attempted 70
combine the phenomena OF Nature IN one grand
and harmonious picture. Impelled by the instinct
of unity which. If not an Inseparabe element OF
the philosophical mind, Is awakened by the re-
Elective contemplation of Nature, he has sought
TO trace the universal laws of existence IN indl-
these laws to the primal causality by which they
are yitalised and enforced But he has never lost
sight of our present limitations, by which we are
precluded from resolving all sensuous perceptions
into the unity OF one sole idea OF Nature with
the sublime consciousness of striving toward the
Infinite, and of graspmg all that Is revealed to
the cognisance Of man, amid the boundleSs and
inexhaustIble fulne>s OF creation, development
and being. he has aistained from cherlshlng the
rash presumption that the principle was yet dis
covered which could reduce the phenomena OF
the organic world 10 an exhaustive and harmonic
unity.
The present volume Is devoted to the results OF
observations IN the starry heavens, comprising
both the region of the fixed stars and OF our solar
and planetary systems Under the first division,
which forms the peculiar subject OF this work,
Humboldt engages in some exceedingly curious
sreculatons III regard to the realms Of space IN
general. and the bodies 10y which they appear 10
he filed 1-e then treats OF the properties OF
hgh. and the nature Of vision, the number, DIS
trhution and color Of the stars, the mllAy-way
and the nebulg. in the course OF these admirable
discussions. we find an approaching tribute to
our countryman. Mr. George Bond, assistant As
tronomer at the Observatory of Cambridge, for
his resolution of the ne0ule IN Andromeda's
girdie INTO small stars.
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