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... body go to the in the universe for the entirely new world - systems which the bright side of the moon , and remain there until they are Creator is constantly calling into being . The greater number either sent back again into this world ...
... body go to the in the universe for the entirely new world - systems which the bright side of the moon , and remain there until they are Creator is constantly calling into being . The greater number either sent back again into this world ...
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... body , and the delicious emo- tions run through the mind in such rapid succession , that an hour is lengthened out into whole centuries of bliss . This state of rapture is succeeded by one of calm content . There are no depressing ...
... body , and the delicious emo- tions run through the mind in such rapid succession , that an hour is lengthened out into whole centuries of bliss . This state of rapture is succeeded by one of calm content . There are no depressing ...
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... body of information of which the most eminent and highly educated architects would do well to avail themselves . One man we knew in our early years who was pre - eminent in this kind of information . That man was the father of English ...
... body of information of which the most eminent and highly educated architects would do well to avail themselves . One man we knew in our early years who was pre - eminent in this kind of information . That man was the father of English ...
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... body which Heathenism deifies , Poetry sings , and Science studies . No wonder that mere Materialism has ever worshipped the sun , no wonder that Poetry has ever discerned something new in its glories , no wonder that Science is ever ...
... body which Heathenism deifies , Poetry sings , and Science studies . No wonder that mere Materialism has ever worshipped the sun , no wonder that Poetry has ever discerned something new in its glories , no wonder that Science is ever ...
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... body of the great luminary laid bare to our sight by those vast fluctuations in the luminous regions of its atmosphere , to which it seems to be subject . Lalande thought that eminences of the nature of mountains are hereby laid bare ...
... body of the great luminary laid bare to our sight by those vast fluctuations in the luminous regions of its atmosphere , to which it seems to be subject . Lalande thought that eminences of the nature of mountains are hereby laid bare ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 1 - I am fully convinced that species are not immutable; but that those belonging to what are called the same genera are lineal descendants of some other and generally extinct species, in the same manner as the acknowledged varieties of any one species are the descendants of that species. Furthermore, I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.
Página 7 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Página 6 - These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction ; Inheritance which is almost implied by Reproduction ; Variability from the indirect and direct action of the conditions of life, and from use and disuse...
Página 7 - Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype. But analogy may be a deceitful guide.
Página 14 - And every plant of the field before it was in the earth and every herb of the field before it grew for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth and there was not a man to till the ground...
Página 29 - Seeva laid wait for me. I came suddenly upon Isis and Osiris : I had done a deed, they said, which the ibis and the crocodile trembled at.
Página 7 - It is satisfactory, as showing how transient such impressions are, to remember that the greatest discovery ever made by man, namely, the law of the attraction of gravity, was also attacked by Leibnitz, "as subversive of natural, and inferentially of revealed, religion.
Página 29 - Deeper than ever plummet sounded," I lay inactive. Then, like a chorus, the passion deepened. Some greater interest was at stake ; some mightier cause than ever yet the sword had pleaded, or trumpet had proclaimed. Then came sudden alarms ; hurryings to and fro ; trepidations of innumerable fugitives.
Página 29 - ... heartbreaking partings, and then — everlasting farewells! and, with a sigh such as the caves of hell sighed when the incestuous mother uttered the abhorred name of Death, the sound was reverberated — everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated — everlasting farewells! And I awoke in struggles, and cried aloud, "I will sleep no more!
Página 11 - Their Superiority in the ART of LANDSCAPE PAINTING to all the Ancient Masters, proved by examples of the True, the Beautiful, and the Intellectual, from the Works of Modern Artists, especially from those of JM Turner, Esq., RA By a GRADUATE of OXFORD.