 | 1849 - 768 lehte
...the life of each of these is so much subtracted from national wealth—even were all moral sense or religious feeling dead in us, we must confess that...knowledge which is capable of averting them " is of use." The ships that bear the treasures produced by this industry through the world are lost to a fearful... | |
 | 1870 - 668 lehte
...; and, when we think that the victims of the deadly influences which are there revealed are chieBy found among the people whose industry is the foundation...desire to measure exactly the amount of organic matter. Not to detail all the attempts, I may come to the report to the Cattle Plague Commission in ii>66,... | |
 | Bowdoin College - 1870 - 428 lehte
...well known : •' For instance, the causes which, in our great cities, hasten the death and debase aud embitter the life of so many, have at last been forced...desire to measure exactly the amount of organic matter. Not to detail all the attempts, I may come to the report to the Cattle Plague Commission in 1866, iu... | |
 | 1870 - 586 lehte
...every year cut off from the life of each of these is so much subtracted from national wealth,—even were all moral sense and religious feeling dead in...desire to measure exactly the amount of organic matter. Not to detail all the attempts, I may come to the report to the Cattle Plague Commission in 1866, in... | |
 | 1870 - 414 lehte
...national wealth, — even were all moral senses and religious feeling dead in u.=, we must confers that the knowledge which is capable of averting them...changed. Still, the subject was a continued study, and itwa* my strong desire to measure exactly the amount of organic matter. Not to detail ah1 the attempts,... | |
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Smith's report on the air and water of towns, in this volume ; and when we think that the victims of the deadly influences which are there revealed are chiefly found among the people whose industry is the foundation of our greatness, — that every year... 