The National Review, 10. köideRichard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1860 |
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... hares or rabbits , while another hunts on marshy ground , and almost nightly catches woodcocks or snipes . Recent observations on the Cuckoo have shown that this bird deposits its eggs in the nests 204 Darwin on the Origin of Species .
... hares or rabbits , while another hunts on marshy ground , and almost nightly catches woodcocks or snipes . Recent observations on the Cuckoo have shown that this bird deposits its eggs in the nests 204 Darwin on the Origin of Species .
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Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot. shown that this bird deposits its eggs in the nests of no fewer than twenty - eight different species , and that the cuckoo's egg almost invariably agrees so closely in colour with the eggs among ...
Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot. shown that this bird deposits its eggs in the nests of no fewer than twenty - eight different species , and that the cuckoo's egg almost invariably agrees so closely in colour with the eggs among ...
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... deposits in one locality which fill up breaks in another ; and in thus connecting more and more closely with each other the successive members of the series of stratified deposits . And though we may be as yet very far from realising ...
... deposits in one locality which fill up breaks in another ; and in thus connecting more and more closely with each other the successive members of the series of stratified deposits . And though we may be as yet very far from realising ...
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... deposits took place in that locality during a long series of ages , through which a progressive change of organic ... deposit in the first locality . A geologist who had formed his notions of the succession of strata only from the study ...
... deposits took place in that locality during a long series of ages , through which a progressive change of organic ... deposit in the first locality . A geologist who had formed his notions of the succession of strata only from the study ...
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... deposit has often been interrupted , and as long blank intervals have doubtless intervened between successive deposits , we have no right to expect to find in any one or two of them all the intermediate varieties between the species ...
... deposit has often been interrupted , and as long blank intervals have doubtless intervened between successive deposits , we have no right to expect to find in any one or two of them all the intermediate varieties between the species ...
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Page 413 - And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar. Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea: which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.
Page 103 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory, Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 395 - And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that aught of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
Page 395 - And fear came upon every soul : and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles.
Page 204 - If such do occur, can we doubt (remembering that many more individuals are born than can possibly survive) that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind?
Page 90 - And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul, She all in every part, why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined, So obvious and so easy to be quenched, And not, as feeling, through all parts diffused, That she might look at will through every pore?
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Page 408 - Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John : who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost: (for as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
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