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... matter of the pigmies , also confirms Ptolemy , who attributes the source of the Nile to a mountain country , in which the moun- tains are constantly covered with snow . The humble missionary has thus accomplished a great geographical ...
... matter of the pigmies , also confirms Ptolemy , who attributes the source of the Nile to a mountain country , in which the moun- tains are constantly covered with snow . The humble missionary has thus accomplished a great geographical ...
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... matter thoroughly . " The result of this determina- tion is to be seen in the volume before us , which contains SPIRITUALISM is making converts on all sides every day . With- 528 pages of deeply interesting matter . It is not possible ...
... matter thoroughly . " The result of this determina- tion is to be seen in the volume before us , which contains SPIRITUALISM is making converts on all sides every day . With- 528 pages of deeply interesting matter . It is not possible ...
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... matter with you ? ' " The matter , sir ? Who is that at your desk ? ' " No one that I know of . ' " But there is , sir : there is a stranger there . ' " A stranger ! Why , man , you must be dreaming . You must have seen the steward ...
... matter with you ? ' " The matter , sir ? Who is that at your desk ? ' " No one that I know of . ' " But there is , sir : there is a stranger there . ' " A stranger ! Why , man , you must be dreaming . You must have seen the steward ...
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... matter had long been practised in China and Hindoostan , when in 1721 the operation was introduced into this country by the celebrated Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , who caused her daughter to be Afterwards , the experiment inoculated in ...
... matter had long been practised in China and Hindoostan , when in 1721 the operation was introduced into this country by the celebrated Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , who caused her daughter to be Afterwards , the experiment inoculated in ...
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... matter , and he succeeded in obtaining vaccine vesicles in the cow . These experiments have been repeated by others , but by none with more success , and with the exhibition of greater care , acumen , and knowledge of the sub- ject ...
... matter , and he succeeded in obtaining vaccine vesicles in the cow . These experiments have been repeated by others , but by none with more success , and with the exhibition of greater care , acumen , and knowledge of the sub- ject ...
Términos y frases comunes
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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.