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... character , as well as strikingly beautiful and interesting . zance . Polarity of light is another of the won- ders of which Meteorology takes cogni- The celebrated Malus , in 1808 , while looking at the light of the setting sun shining ...
... character , as well as strikingly beautiful and interesting . zance . Polarity of light is another of the won- ders of which Meteorology takes cogni- The celebrated Malus , in 1808 , while looking at the light of the setting sun shining ...
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... character of the air is an- other subject of interest , and a leading one in Meteorology . What can be more magnificent , what more awful , than those storms of lightning and thunder which are witnessed sometimes even in our own ...
... character of the air is an- other subject of interest , and a leading one in Meteorology . What can be more magnificent , what more awful , than those storms of lightning and thunder which are witnessed sometimes even in our own ...
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... character of a people . The following legend furnishes a strik- ing and attractive exemplification of such a growth , in the unfolding of a romantic passage of Maryland history , of which no annalist has ever given more than an ...
... character of a people . The following legend furnishes a strik- ing and attractive exemplification of such a growth , in the unfolding of a romantic passage of Maryland history , of which no annalist has ever given more than an ...
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... character ; and I therefore as- sume him to have been of a brave , frank , and generous nature , capable of attract ing partisans and enlisting the sympathies and service of bold men for his personal defence . So , with the help of a ...
... character ; and I therefore as- sume him to have been of a brave , frank , and generous nature , capable of attract ing partisans and enlisting the sympathies and service of bold men for his personal defence . So , with the help of a ...
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... character of the present day , with all the appurtenances proper to a convenient and pleasant country homestead . Immediately in its neighborhood · so near that it might be said to be almost within the curtilage of the dwelling stood an ...
... character of the present day , with all the appurtenances proper to a convenient and pleasant country homestead . Immediately in its neighborhood · so near that it might be said to be almost within the curtilage of the dwelling stood an ...
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Página 233 - History of New York, from the beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty.
Página 207 - Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.
Página 123 - OF all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well...
Página 606 - THE GLACIERS OF THE ALPS : being a Narrative of Excursions and Ascents. An Account of the Origin and Phenomena of Glaciers, and an Exposition of the Physical Principles to which they are related.
Página 479 - A GLACIER is AN IMPERFECT FLUID, OR A VISCOUS BODY. WHICH IS URGED DOWN SLOPES OF A CERTAIN INCLINATION BY THE MUTUAL PRESSURE OF ITS PARTS.
Página 207 - I can entertain no doubt, after the most deliberate study and dispassionate judgment of which I am capable, that the view which most naturalists until recently entertained, and which I formerly entertained, namely, that each species has been independently created, is erroneous. I am fully convinced that species are not immutable...
Página 207 - ... been stated that I attribute the modification of species exclusively to natural selection, I may be permitted to remark that in the first edition of this work, and subsequently, I placed in a most conspicuous position — namely, at the close of the Introduction the following words : "I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not the exclusive means of modification.
Página 264 - He being thus lorded, Not only with what my revenue yielded. But what my power might else exact, — like one Who having unto truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie...
Página 476 - Netherlands, at the end of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the sixteenth, we find the allegorical drama giving way to more definite and direct personations.
Página 165 - Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent Tobacco, which goes far beyond all their panaceas, potable gold, and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases. A good vomit, I confess, a virtuous herb, if it be well qualified, opportunely taken, and medicinally used, but, as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as Tinkers do Ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, land, health, hellish, devilish, and damned Tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.