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... direction to Mr. Carrington . From his observations we infer that really isolated spots are of rare occurrence , and that the spots com- monly occur in groups . The components of each group examined by the above - named gentleman have ...
... direction to Mr. Carrington . From his observations we infer that really isolated spots are of rare occurrence , and that the spots com- monly occur in groups . The components of each group examined by the above - named gentleman have ...
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... Directions for the use of the Microscope , cal Terms . By Professor Balfour . Cr . 8vo , cloth , 2s . 6d . A. and C. Black Balfour " Scrub ; " or the Workhouse Boy's First Start in Life . By Mrs. C. L. Balfour . 12mo , sewed 6d . S. W. ...
... Directions for the use of the Microscope , cal Terms . By Professor Balfour . Cr . 8vo , cloth , 2s . 6d . A. and C. Black Balfour " Scrub ; " or the Workhouse Boy's First Start in Life . By Mrs. C. L. Balfour . 12mo , sewed 6d . S. W. ...
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... Directions for Teachers . 12mo , cloth , 18 . ELEMENTS of ARITHMETIC , giving improved Expla nations of all the Rules , on the basis of the " Higher Arithmetic " in the ger.es of American School - books . By Prof. WALLACE , A.M. Cr ...
... Directions for Teachers . 12mo , cloth , 18 . ELEMENTS of ARITHMETIC , giving improved Expla nations of all the Rules , on the basis of the " Higher Arithmetic " in the ger.es of American School - books . By Prof. WALLACE , A.M. Cr ...
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... direction , in the purchase and removal of the adjoining premises , to prevent risk of fire , and towards the restoration of the house . In the same year , by his will , dated 17th November , he bequeathed a further sum of £ 2,500 to ...
... direction , in the purchase and removal of the adjoining premises , to prevent risk of fire , and towards the restoration of the house . In the same year , by his will , dated 17th November , he bequeathed a further sum of £ 2,500 to ...
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... direction . Mrs. Gilpin has not skirmished amongst the dead leaves , warring determinedly with withered vegetation , for a long time . She thinks the garden a great expense , —a hobby of Mr. Gilpin's , in the enjoyment of which he ...
... direction . Mrs. Gilpin has not skirmished amongst the dead leaves , warring determinedly with withered vegetation , for a long time . She thinks the garden a great expense , —a hobby of Mr. Gilpin's , in the enjoyment of which he ...
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Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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!
Страница 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.