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... thought of value put forth from 11 time to time in the world's literature ; it will seek to inform 14 15 17 24 them ... thoughts they may enunciate , and with the nature of what - parent form . These variations have been attributed to ...
... thought of value put forth from 11 time to time in the world's literature ; it will seek to inform 14 15 17 24 them ... thoughts they may enunciate , and with the nature of what - parent form . These variations have been attributed to ...
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... thought it wonderful , and one of them carried it to the Exchange Coffee- house , at the hour when it was most frequented by the mer- chants . " The attempt , " says the autobiography , thought surprising for a boy , and in a few hours ...
... thought it wonderful , and one of them carried it to the Exchange Coffee- house , at the hour when it was most frequented by the mer- chants . " The attempt , " says the autobiography , thought surprising for a boy , and in a few hours ...
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... Thought attacks Thought . And the dread battle - plain Of that war is the soul , now , herself . And again The Immortals take part in the battle ; and Heaven And Hell to the conflict their counsels have given , See ! stern Torquemada ...
... Thought attacks Thought . And the dread battle - plain Of that war is the soul , now , herself . And again The Immortals take part in the battle ; and Heaven And Hell to the conflict their counsels have given , See ! stern Torquemada ...
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... thought ! to those who compare the story of the reality with the romance . Be this as it may , the settled ... thoughts that soared sublime , My purpose brave ; The hopeful glow and fervour of my prime ? - Low in her grave . Most little ...
... thought ! to those who compare the story of the reality with the romance . Be this as it may , the settled ... thoughts that soared sublime , My purpose brave ; The hopeful glow and fervour of my prime ? - Low in her grave . Most little ...
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... thought , the captain busy writing on his slate . Still no answer . Thereupon he rose ; and , as he fronted the cabin door , the figure he had mistaken for the captain raised its head , and disclosed to the astonished mate the features ...
... thought , the captain busy writing on his slate . Still no answer . Thereupon he rose ; and , as he fronted the cabin door , the figure he had mistaken for the captain raised its head , and disclosed to the astonished mate the features ...
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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.