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... question , glancing over his shoulder and perceiving , as he 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 ...
... question , glancing over his shoulder and perceiving , as he 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 ...
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... question is , as we have said , comparatively little known and feebly supported , and yet its aims are well worthy of consideration in a political point of view . The time appears to be approaching when , if Great Britain is to preserve ...
... question is , as we have said , comparatively little known and feebly supported , and yet its aims are well worthy of consideration in a political point of view . The time appears to be approaching when , if Great Britain is to preserve ...
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... questions suggest themselves to us on a number of adhere as tenaciously to any kind of stone , Kuhlman suggested ... question which astronomers address to each other . Have they seen the actual feeding of the sun with a sudden in ...
... questions suggest themselves to us on a number of adhere as tenaciously to any kind of stone , Kuhlman suggested ... question which astronomers address to each other . Have they seen the actual feeding of the sun with a sudden in ...
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... question is more frequently addressed in cultivated society to known and professed geologists than this : " What books would you recommend as the best for a beginner in the study of your science ? " At least fifty times has this very ...
... question is more frequently addressed in cultivated society to known and professed geologists than this : " What books would you recommend as the best for a beginner in the study of your science ? " At least fifty times has this very ...
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... question . The principal argument relied upon in support of the commonly accepted theory , has been the entire absence of human fossils even from the most recently formed deposits . Bones of human beings , it is admitted , have been ...
... question . The principal argument relied upon in support of the commonly accepted theory , has been the entire absence of human fossils even from the most recently formed deposits . Bones of human beings , it is admitted , have been ...
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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.