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... called upon to rake up the nursery anecdotes of a contemporary's childhood . Suffice it to say , that I believe Mr. Hunt is sprung from that great middle class of England which , neither so over rich as to be inane or idle , nor so over ...
... called upon to rake up the nursery anecdotes of a contemporary's childhood . Suffice it to say , that I believe Mr. Hunt is sprung from that great middle class of England which , neither so over rich as to be inane or idle , nor so over ...
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... called silicon with oxygen , and by chemists is also called silicic acid , although its acid properties are very weak . If flint , or silica , be subjected , at steam pressure , and at a temperature of 300 deg . or 400 deg . Fahr . , to ...
... called silicon with oxygen , and by chemists is also called silicic acid , although its acid properties are very weak . If flint , or silica , be subjected , at steam pressure , and at a temperature of 300 deg . or 400 deg . Fahr . , to ...
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... called ) and two hundred thousand riflemen , all imperial foes of Protestant England will be kept at bay , or soundly thrashed , and , if needs be , destroyed , should they venture to leave their gory lair for this THE LATE ROBERT B ...
... called ) and two hundred thousand riflemen , all imperial foes of Protestant England will be kept at bay , or soundly thrashed , and , if needs be , destroyed , should they venture to leave their gory lair for this THE LATE ROBERT B ...
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... called the Liverpool Lion . In this publication he had the assistance of his brother William , and also in the production of his first burlesque , the Enchanted Isle . He tried acting , and succeeded , particularly in the characters of ...
... called the Liverpool Lion . In this publication he had the assistance of his brother William , and also in the production of his first burlesque , the Enchanted Isle . He tried acting , and succeeded , particularly in the characters of ...
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... called marowskying , under which , by a slight transpo- sition of the initial letters of each word , a pint of stout becomes a " stint of pout , " and a mutton chop a " chutton mop . " This perversion of language originated with a class ...
... called marowskying , under which , by a slight transpo- sition of the initial letters of each word , a pint of stout becomes a " stint of pout , " and a mutton chop a " chutton mop . " This perversion of language originated with a class ...
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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.