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And so of generally , and elaborato demonstration , by the aid of many * Cloud Perspective , " -- cleverly set forth and illustrated , but plates , of the infinite superiority of Turner , closing with appealing perhaps too exclusively ...
And so of generally , and elaborato demonstration , by the aid of many * Cloud Perspective , " -- cleverly set forth and illustrated , but plates , of the infinite superiority of Turner , closing with appealing perhaps too exclusively ...
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... the work was purposely chosen to indicate its cha . sion of the butcher's dog in Landseer's Low Lisc , and Cruik . racter , Mr. Hood and Mrs. Broderip disclaiming any merit as sbruk's Noah Claypole in the plates to Oliver Ticist .
... the work was purposely chosen to indicate its cha . sion of the butcher's dog in Landseer's Low Lisc , and Cruik . racter , Mr. Hood and Mrs. Broderip disclaiming any merit as sbruk's Noah Claypole in the plates to Oliver Ticist .
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... from the circumstance that he found struta in substances are the most powerful reustants of hioisture and Oripthing , tom a plate of bread and bntter on the breal - fast decay , fiint will be certain to surrent itself .
... from the circumstance that he found struta in substances are the most powerful reustants of hioisture and Oripthing , tom a plate of bread and bntter on the breal - fast decay , fiint will be certain to surrent itself .
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In all these points it displays suficient acquaintance the result , it was always found that their action on the plate was with observed phenomena ; and , while we do not agree with similar to that of the rays of the sun's disc , viz .
In all these points it displays suficient acquaintance the result , it was always found that their action on the plate was with observed phenomena ; and , while we do not agree with similar to that of the rays of the sun's disc , viz .
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The Work contains 280 4to pages of Text , bound in Cloth , and 103 Coloured Illustrations , arranged in 9 Folio Plates , measuring 15 inches by 78 , in a Limp Cover . Price of the 4to Volume and small folio Atlas , 218 .
The Work contains 280 4to pages of Text , bound in Cloth , and 103 Coloured Illustrations , arranged in 9 Folio Plates , measuring 15 inches by 78 , in a Limp Cover . Price of the 4to Volume and small folio Atlas , 218 .
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Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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!
Сторінка 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.