The Popular Science Monthly, Volumen23D. Appleton, 1883 |
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... object ; the regulation - walk on gener ciples is too apt to be shirked on very slight pretexts . If you garden of your own , fence off a digging corner and prospect f logical specimens . If you have a wood - shed , import an old stu ...
... object ; the regulation - walk on gener ciples is too apt to be shirked on very slight pretexts . If you garden of your own , fence off a digging corner and prospect f logical specimens . If you have a wood - shed , import an old stu ...
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... objects of interest to lit- erature and art . The discovery was made gradually and almost simultaneously in literature and politics , that the aristocracy had no monopoly of importance . In short , toward the end of the last century ...
... objects of interest to lit- erature and art . The discovery was made gradually and almost simultaneously in literature and politics , that the aristocracy had no monopoly of importance . In short , toward the end of the last century ...
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... objects of his study . It would be singular if religion remained untouched by these move- ments . There would be no precedent for its escape from the common fate of all branches of thought . The Reformation was a democratic revolution ...
... objects of his study . It would be singular if religion remained untouched by these move- ments . There would be no precedent for its escape from the common fate of all branches of thought . The Reformation was a democratic revolution ...
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... object is accomplished satisfac- torily . In order to study the germs in the air , we must not only possess a sensitive and wholly pure liquid , but must have means of arranging it for the cultivation of the organisms , under such ...
... object is accomplished satisfac- torily . In order to study the germs in the air , we must not only possess a sensitive and wholly pure liquid , but must have means of arranging it for the cultivation of the organisms , under such ...
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... object to attained and of the means to accomplish it . On one occasion , in ty up a large elephant , he contrived , before he could be hauled clos to the tree , to walk once or twice round it , carrying the rope him ; the decoy ...
... object to attained and of the means to accomplish it . On one occasion , in ty up a large elephant , he contrived , before he could be hauled clos to the tree , to walk once or twice round it , carrying the rope him ; the decoy ...
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Página 252 - And, having dropped the expected bag, pass on. He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch ! Cold and yet cheerful : messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some ; To him indifferent whether grief or joy.
Página 411 - This must have been the curriculum for their celibates," we may fancy him concluding. " I perceive here an elaborate preparation for many things: especially for reading the books of extinct nations and of co-existing nations (from which indeed it seems clear that these people had very little worth reading in their own tongue) ; but I find no reference whatever to the bringing up of children. They could not have been so absurd as to omit all training for this gravest of responsibilities. Evidently...
Página 533 - Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth; even these of them ye may eat ; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
Página 340 - IT is done ! Clang of bell and roar of gun Send the tidings up and down. How the belfries rock and reel ! How the great guns, peal on peal, Fling the joy from town to town • Ring, O bells ! Every stroke exulting tells Of the burial hour of crime.
Página 668 - States shall have the same right in every state and territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses and exactions of every kind, and none other, any law, statute, ordinance, regulation or custom to the contrary notwithstanding...
Página 353 - Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength, Or curb his swiftness in the forward race...
Página 668 - all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every State and Territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses, and exactions of every kind, and to no other.
Página 194 - Now that moral injunctions are losing the authority given by their supposed sacred origin, the secularization of morals is becoming imperative. Few things can happen more disastrous than the decay and death of a regulative system no longer fit, before another and fitter regulative system has grown up to replace it.
Página 411 - If by some strange chance not a vestige of us descended to the remote future save a pile of our schoolbooks or some college examination papers, we may imagine how puzzled an antiquary of the period would be on finding in them no indication that the learners were ever likely to be parents. "This must have been the curriculum for their celibates,
Página 739 - Not where he eats, but where he is eaten : a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet : we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots : your fat king, and your lean beggar, is but variable service ; two dishes, but to one table : that's the end.