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... John Leech 33 8 The Death - Wound of Charles XII .. 35 4 The late Solar Eclipse 30 The Garden that Paid the Rent 8 The Coal and Guano Dyes . - Mauve , Magenta , etc ...... ... 36 The Life and Discoveries of Sir Charles Bell .. 9 ...
... John Leech 33 8 The Death - Wound of Charles XII .. 35 4 The late Solar Eclipse 30 The Garden that Paid the Rent 8 The Coal and Guano Dyes . - Mauve , Magenta , etc ...... ... 36 The Life and Discoveries of Sir Charles Bell .. 9 ...
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... JOHN if you will prove an exception to the aforesaid editorial foes of the HOLLINGSHEAD , author of " Under Bow Bells . " Mr. HoL - liberty of utterance and the press , of which they palm themselves land , which , for the sake of its ...
... JOHN if you will prove an exception to the aforesaid editorial foes of the HOLLINGSHEAD , author of " Under Bow Bells . " Mr. HoL - liberty of utterance and the press , of which they palm themselves land , which , for the sake of its ...
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... John- in the new issue of that periodical , - —are specimens of clear , pure , graceful narrative poems that no English poet has ever surpassed . His verses about children will bear comparison for tenderness , and poetic feeling , and ...
... John- in the new issue of that periodical , - —are specimens of clear , pure , graceful narrative poems that no English poet has ever surpassed . His verses about children will bear comparison for tenderness , and poetic feeling , and ...
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... John [ his brother ] said , ' Let of the book . Especially does the author insist upon the it be a pleasure to you to reflect that you were always her importance of the young ladies of our time devoting them- consolation . " " selves to ...
... John [ his brother ] said , ' Let of the book . Especially does the author insist upon the it be a pleasure to you to reflect that you were always her importance of the young ladies of our time devoting them- consolation . " " selves to ...
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... John Shaw , most admirably and luminously established the accuracy of his beautiful dis- covery . shown that the functions of the supposed distinct respiratory system are not in any way peculiar , but form part of what are now termed ...
... John Shaw , most admirably and luminously established the accuracy of his beautiful dis- covery . shown that the functions of the supposed distinct respiratory system are not in any way peculiar , but form part of what are now termed ...
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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.