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... matter , while den- sity is the relation of mass to volume , or the quotient resulting from the division of the one by the other . Those empty spaces which render the volume larger than the mass are technically called its pores . Has ...
... matter , while den- sity is the relation of mass to volume , or the quotient resulting from the division of the one by the other . Those empty spaces which render the volume larger than the mass are technically called its pores . Has ...
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... matter , is worthy of better adornment in the form of its presentation to the world , and ought to have a title more suggestive of its anti- quarian lore . I should call it " Fossil Remains of Old Maryland Law , with Notes by an ...
... matter , is worthy of better adornment in the form of its presentation to the world , and ought to have a title more suggestive of its anti- quarian lore . I should call it " Fossil Remains of Old Maryland Law , with Notes by an ...
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... matter rested again for some years . But after this lapse , chance brought me upon the highway of further development , which led me in due time to a strange realization of the old prov- erb that " Murder will out , " though , in this ...
... matter rested again for some years . But after this lapse , chance brought me upon the highway of further development , which led me in due time to a strange realization of the old prov- erb that " Murder will out , " though , in this ...
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... matter to aid the future chronicler in supplying the defi- ciency of past attempts to trace the path of our modest annals through these silent intervals . Incidentally the Librarian's work has assisted my story ; for , although the ...
... matter to aid the future chronicler in supplying the defi- ciency of past attempts to trace the path of our modest annals through these silent intervals . Incidentally the Librarian's work has assisted my story ; for , although the ...
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... matter of course . The unhappy wife recklessly broke the bond which she had as recklessly formed , and which the poet would have honorably and truly re- spected all his life ; and then her passion- ate regret reacted fatally on herself ...
... matter of course . The unhappy wife recklessly broke the bond which she had as recklessly formed , and which the poet would have honorably and truly re- spected all his life ; and then her passion- ate regret reacted fatally on herself ...
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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.
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