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... popular books , and not imaginations standing on their own legs at all . It was not till 1850 , that Mr. Hunt stood forward , and art people threw up their hats and said , " Here at last is a ruler of men ; let the crown be got ready ...
... popular books , and not imaginations standing on their own legs at all . It was not till 1850 , that Mr. Hunt stood forward , and art people threw up their hats and said , " Here at last is a ruler of men ; let the crown be got ready ...
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... popular readings . If a man chooses to collect and print these , he may easily produce such a book as Mr. Ansted has just issued under the truly appro- priate title of Geological Gossip , or Stray Chapters on Earth and Ocean . Stray ...
... popular readings . If a man chooses to collect and print these , he may easily produce such a book as Mr. Ansted has just issued under the truly appro- priate title of Geological Gossip , or Stray Chapters on Earth and Ocean . Stray ...
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... popular and valuable Art of Illumi- nating . Each one of the 54 pages presenting a fund of fresh and tasteful illumination . The binding of the work will be designed by Owen Jones . The price , com- plete , will be £ 2 2s .; or , in ...
... popular and valuable Art of Illumi- nating . Each one of the 54 pages presenting a fund of fresh and tasteful illumination . The binding of the work will be designed by Owen Jones . The price , com- plete , will be £ 2 2s .; or , in ...
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... popular Periodical : - " Cassell's Illustrated Family Paper began this year with a sale of THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND . The Tales composed for working men's hours of relaxation are of a kind that address themselves both to the understanding ...
... popular Periodical : - " Cassell's Illustrated Family Paper began this year with a sale of THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND . The Tales composed for working men's hours of relaxation are of a kind that address themselves both to the understanding ...
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... Popular | Chapters on Ethnography . With Index . By Joux KENNEDY , A.M. 12mo , cloth , THE WONDERS of the HEAVENS . By FREDERICK S. WILLIAMS . With Diagrams . New Edition , 12mo , boards , 1s .; cloth , 1s . 6d . A POPULAR ACCOUNT of ...
... Popular | Chapters on Ethnography . With Index . By Joux KENNEDY , A.M. 12mo , cloth , THE WONDERS of the HEAVENS . By FREDERICK S. WILLIAMS . With Diagrams . New Edition , 12mo , boards , 1s .; cloth , 1s . 6d . A POPULAR ACCOUNT of ...
Términos y frases comunes
2nd edit Abbé admirable amongst animals appear artist beautiful birds Blackwood British called character Charles church cloth colour commenced containing DUDLEY COSTELLO Edinburgh England English Engravings fact feet French friends George GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA gilt glacier Guillemot hand History human hundred Illustrated interesting James James Blackwood John labour lady land Leonard light literary living London Longman Lord Brougham Lord Cochrane Lord Gambier Magazine Malinska Marshall murexide nature never observed origin of species original Otley OWEN JONES painter paper Paternoster-row persons picture Pike's Peak country Plates poem popular Post 8vo Practical present published readers remarkable Routledge Royal Scheffer Schools Series sewed Simpkin Society species story thousand tion vols volume William writing young
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.