The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 144Atlantic Monthly Company, 1929 - American essays |
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The size of birds ' eggs , in fact , does not increase as fast as the size of the birds that lay them . A humming bird lays an egg 15 per cent of its own weight ; that of a thrush is 9 per cent , that of a goose some 4 per cent ...
The size of birds ' eggs , in fact , does not increase as fast as the size of the birds that lay them . A humming bird lays an egg 15 per cent of its own weight ; that of a thrush is 9 per cent , that of a goose some 4 per cent ...
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Therefore it is a fact germane to the present theme that the great preservers of wild animals are chiefly recruited from the ranks of sportsmen . It is a second essential fact , in another field of activity , that those who spend the ...
Therefore it is a fact germane to the present theme that the great preservers of wild animals are chiefly recruited from the ranks of sportsmen . It is a second essential fact , in another field of activity , that those who spend the ...
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IV By an odd freak of fact , the men in our day who are nearest to the spirit and mind of Jesus in their method and approach are men of science . Long ago Huxley - the elder Huxley , not his descendant who shows us in an exquisite art ...
IV By an odd freak of fact , the men in our day who are nearest to the spirit and mind of Jesus in their method and approach are men of science . Long ago Huxley - the elder Huxley , not his descendant who shows us in an exquisite art ...
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