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... seen in the case of ants ) neuters also , the young and the old , varieties of all shades , and even monstrosities , -into one specific group , the principle of descent is always and of necessity employed . Varieties themselves are also ...
... seen in the case of ants ) neuters also , the young and the old , varieties of all shades , and even monstrosities , -into one specific group , the principle of descent is always and of necessity employed . Varieties themselves are also ...
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... seen one of the finest of West's pictures ( his Lear in the Storm ) , and I was to see and know the great artist himself . All this to a boy of sixteen , and of such tastes as I have described , could not but afford anticipations of the ...
... seen one of the finest of West's pictures ( his Lear in the Storm ) , and I was to see and know the great artist himself . All this to a boy of sixteen , and of such tastes as I have described , could not but afford anticipations of the ...
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... seen in the Cena ; Titian only in the Assumption ; but Rubens only in the Battle of the Amazons ; and Vandyck only at court ; " and he adds , his indignation mounting as he proceeds , " absolutely now at last we find ourselves without ...
... seen in the Cena ; Titian only in the Assumption ; but Rubens only in the Battle of the Amazons ; and Vandyck only at court ; " and he adds , his indignation mounting as he proceeds , " absolutely now at last we find ourselves without ...
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... seen falsehood veil'd by the virginal cheek Of a child ; I have seen the immaculate , meek Desdemona false ; Imogen wanton ; have seen Juliet faithless ; and she , the chaste Ithacan Queen , Choose a swine from her suitors , and from ...
... seen falsehood veil'd by the virginal cheek Of a child ; I have seen the immaculate , meek Desdemona false ; Imogen wanton ; have seen Juliet faithless ; and she , the chaste Ithacan Queen , Choose a swine from her suitors , and from ...
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... seen in his sublimer creations . To the Orleans family he proved his attachment ( after his own heart ) by redoubling his attentions to them in their ad- versity ; and on the death of Louis Philippe , in 1850 , he hastened to attend the ...
... seen in his sublimer creations . To the Orleans family he proved his attachment ( after his own heart ) by redoubling his attentions to them in their ad- versity ; and on the death of Louis Philippe , in 1850 , he hastened to attend the ...
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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.