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... turns out to have been a half - waking one , presaging a reality . Ovid foreshadowed the discoveries of the geologist : the Atlantis was an imagination , but Columbus found a western world ; and though the quaint forms of Centaurs and ...
... turns out to have been a half - waking one , presaging a reality . Ovid foreshadowed the discoveries of the geologist : the Atlantis was an imagination , but Columbus found a western world ; and though the quaint forms of Centaurs and ...
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... turns the leg and foot outward , which occasions him to have a waddling gait and to seem bow- legged . ' 99 Dr. Burrough states of another Gibbon , the Horlack or Hooluk : 64 " They walk erect and when placed or the floor , or in an ...
... turns the leg and foot outward , which occasions him to have a waddling gait and to seem bow- legged . ' 99 Dr. Burrough states of another Gibbon , the Horlack or Hooluk : 64 " They walk erect and when placed or the floor , or in an ...
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... turn on her keeper . The Gib- bons eat insects , but appear generally to avoid animal food . A Siamang , however , was seer by Mr. Bennett to seize and devour greedily a live lizard . They commonly drink by dip- ping their fingers in ...
... turn on her keeper . The Gib- bons eat insects , but appear generally to avoid animal food . A Siamang , however , was seer by Mr. Bennett to seize and devour greedily a live lizard . They commonly drink by dip- ping their fingers in ...
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... turns on one side or the other , drawing his limbs up to his body , and resting his head on his hand . When the night is cold , windy , or rainy , he usually covers his body with a heap of pandanus , nipa , or fern leaves , like those ...
... turns on one side or the other , drawing his limbs up to his body , and resting his head on his hand . When the night is cold , windy , or rainy , he usually covers his body with a heap of pandanus , nipa , or fern leaves , like those ...
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... turning over Pigafetta's version of the narrative of Lopez , which I have quoted above , I came upon so curious and unex- pected an anticipation , by some two centu- ries and a half , of one of the most startling parts of M. Du ...
... turning over Pigafetta's version of the narrative of Lopez , which I have quoted above , I came upon so curious and unex- pected an anticipation , by some two centu- ries and a half , of one of the most startling parts of M. Du ...
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Сторінка 41 - Are you really my son Esau, or not?" 22 So Jacob came closer to his father Isaac. When he touched him, he said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
Сторінка 19 - An army without weapons of precision, and with no particular base of operations, might more hopefully enter upon a campaign on the Rhine, than a man, devoid of a knowledge of what physical science has done in the last century, upon a criticism...
Сторінка 1 - The upper valve is almost invariably wanting, though occasionally found in a perfect state of preservation in the white chalk at some distance. In this case, we see clearly that the sea-urchin first lived from youth to age, then died and lost its spines, which were carried away. Then the young Crania, adhered to the bared shell, grew and perished in its turn ; after which, the upper valve was separated from the lower, before the Echinus became enveloped in chalky mud.
Сторінка 259 - That train of reasoning is what logicians call a syllogism, and has all its various parts and terms: its major premise, its minor premise, and its conclusion. And by the help of further reasoning, which, if drawn out, would have to be exhibited in two or three other syllogisms, you arrive at your final determination, "I will not have that apple.
Сторінка 5 - Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not...