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... cause of increasing small - pox suggested above , is the alleged imperfect performance of the slight but important operation of vaccination . It is very difficult not to be- lieve that , to some extent , this has been the occasion of ...
... cause of increasing small - pox suggested above , is the alleged imperfect performance of the slight but important operation of vaccination . It is very difficult not to be- lieve that , to some extent , this has been the occasion of ...
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... cause antithesis to be taken for wisdom . They prove nothing , except that their authors have a certain com . mand of words , and the power of placing these words in the most glittering position . Charles Lamb has given us much for ...
... cause antithesis to be taken for wisdom . They prove nothing , except that their authors have a certain com . mand of words , and the power of placing these words in the most glittering position . Charles Lamb has given us much for ...
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... cause of art , but he accomplished much for the Academy . combinations and unfoldings of her activities and instruments , Ready , fluent , sagacious , active , and a courtier , he fought its for his enjoyment and improvement . In the ...
... cause of art , but he accomplished much for the Academy . combinations and unfoldings of her activities and instruments , Ready , fluent , sagacious , active , and a courtier , he fought its for his enjoyment and improvement . In the ...
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... cause of their downfall ,, which was a parliamentary decree , pro- hibiting soldiers , pages , lacqueys , and livery servants from riding in them . When made by law the sole luxury of the rich , they soon ceased to exist . As the ...
... cause of their downfall ,, which was a parliamentary decree , pro- hibiting soldiers , pages , lacqueys , and livery servants from riding in them . When made by law the sole luxury of the rich , they soon ceased to exist . As the ...
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... caused by her raising the prices to what was deemed an exorbitant height . 66 To our friends the doctors we must ... cause him to sleep so soundly that his arms and legs might be cut off without his feeling it . Still more remotely ...
... caused by her raising the prices to what was deemed an exorbitant height . 66 To our friends the doctors we must ... cause him to sleep so soundly that his arms and legs might be cut off without his feeling it . Still more remotely ...
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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.