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... Living Artists - Mr . Holman Hunt Small - Pox and Vaccination ..... Profitable Employment of Women - Lady Physicians Building Stones , -why they Decay , and how to Preserve them . Progress of Astronomy - Spots on the Sun and Solar ...
... Living Artists - Mr . Holman Hunt Small - Pox and Vaccination ..... Profitable Employment of Women - Lady Physicians Building Stones , -why they Decay , and how to Preserve them . Progress of Astronomy - Spots on the Sun and Solar ...
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... living , for they are all kindred by descent ; the facts , that fossil species fill up apparent gaps in the ranks of existing plants and animals , and that " the more ancient a form is the more it generally differs from the living ...
... living , for they are all kindred by descent ; the facts , that fossil species fill up apparent gaps in the ranks of existing plants and animals , and that " the more ancient a form is the more it generally differs from the living ...
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... Living- stone's narrative , though less remarkable as a literary effort . With the deepest interest we follow the author through a series of adventurous journeys extending over 3,000 leagues of territory , and ranging along a coast line ...
... Living- stone's narrative , though less remarkable as a literary effort . With the deepest interest we follow the author through a series of adventurous journeys extending over 3,000 leagues of territory , and ranging along a coast line ...
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... living , and not of the dead , cof Sweet minister , pour out yet further the healing Of that balmy voice ; if it may be , revealing Thy mission of mercy ! whence art thou ? " " O son Of Matilda and Alfred , it matters not ! One Who is ...
... living , and not of the dead , cof Sweet minister , pour out yet further the healing Of that balmy voice ; if it may be , revealing Thy mission of mercy ! whence art thou ? " " O son Of Matilda and Alfred , it matters not ! One Who is ...
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... living , and is evidently the work of one who desired to write a useful as well as an interesting book . It is composed of seventeen biographical sketches of the boyhood of eminent men , some of them living , others lately deceased ...
... living , and is evidently the work of one who desired to write a useful as well as an interesting book . It is composed of seventeen biographical sketches of the boyhood of eminent men , some of them living , others lately deceased ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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!
Page 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.