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... given birth to the genera , and families , and orders , and even to the classes , of plants and animals . The process of natural selection , Mr. Darwin admits , might , under certain circumstances , be interfered with by intercross- ing ...
... given birth to the genera , and families , and orders , and even to the classes , of plants and animals . The process of natural selection , Mr. Darwin admits , might , under certain circumstances , be interfered with by intercross- ing ...
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... given , - " have been modified directly preserved through the advantages possessed by their into perfectly - winged animals . " Again : equally well - known more and more specially endowed neuter offspring ; and thus structural and ...
... given , - " have been modified directly preserved through the advantages possessed by their into perfectly - winged animals . " Again : equally well - known more and more specially endowed neuter offspring ; and thus structural and ...
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... given him some lessons in oils during his last few weeks in Philadelphia , and had also given him letters to Mr. West , Sir William Beechey , Mr. Charles King , and other artists . Says Leslie : - " I entered London with such feelings ...
... given him some lessons in oils during his last few weeks in Philadelphia , and had also given him letters to Mr. West , Sir William Beechey , Mr. Charles King , and other artists . Says Leslie : - " I entered London with such feelings ...
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... given to court notoriety or publicity , and rather shrinking from than provoking conflict ; asking only leave to pursue the even tenor of his way in the practice of the art he loved , among the quiet friends he valued ; equable ...
... given to court notoriety or publicity , and rather shrinking from than provoking conflict ; asking only leave to pursue the even tenor of his way in the practice of the art he loved , among the quiet friends he valued ; equable ...
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... given to the world . Then 1860 , and the present final volume . Not , as the author avows , that his subject is concluded , for " he has been led by it into fields of infinite inquiry , where it is only possible to break off with such ...
... given to the world . Then 1860 , and the present final volume . Not , as the author avows , that his subject is concluded , for " he has been led by it into fields of infinite inquiry , where it is only possible to break off with such ...
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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.