The Popular Science Monthly, 45. köideD. Appleton, 1894 |
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... give still stronger force to the idea of such transforma- tions , he dwells on the biblical account of Nebuchadnezzar , which appears to have taken strong hold upon mediæval thought in science , and declares that other human beings had ...
... give still stronger force to the idea of such transforma- tions , he dwells on the biblical account of Nebuchadnezzar , which appears to have taken strong hold upon mediæval thought in science , and declares that other human beings had ...
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... give rise to new organs . The development of these organs is in proportion to their em- ployment . New developments may be transmitted to offspring . His well - known examples to illustrate these views , such as that of successive ...
... give rise to new organs . The development of these organs is in proportion to their em- ployment . New developments may be transmitted to offspring . His well - known examples to illustrate these views , such as that of successive ...
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... gives the greater influence to environment . In this lies the hope of the educator . We mean to get the best of the dead ... give up these off - hand remedies , these false views of causal relationships , and come to recognize the simple ...
... gives the greater influence to environment . In this lies the hope of the educator . We mean to get the best of the dead ... give up these off - hand remedies , these false views of causal relationships , and come to recognize the simple ...
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... give his children what he is pleased to call an education . To him , this means sending them to school - five hours out of twenty - four , five days out of seven . In this he only illus- trates his supreme faith in machinery . Under ...
... give his children what he is pleased to call an education . To him , this means sending them to school - five hours out of twenty - four , five days out of seven . In this he only illus- trates his supreme faith in machinery . Under ...
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... gives us an excellent illustra- tion of the composition of these vibrations , for by examining with a magnifying glass ... give them optical expression , while their reproduction is the wonderful feature of the whole per- PECULIAR SOUND ...
... gives us an excellent illustra- tion of the composition of these vibrations , for by examining with a magnifying glass ... give them optical expression , while their reproduction is the wonderful feature of the whole per- PECULIAR SOUND ...
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Popular passages
Page 636 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
Page 407 - None knew him but to love him, None named him but to praise.
Page 361 - ... the old woman comes with a nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox, and asks what vein you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that you offer...
Page 638 - It is indifferent for judges and magistrates ; for if they be facile and corrupt, you shall have a servant five times worse than a wife.
Page 361 - There is a set of old women who make it their business to perform the operation every autumn, in the month of September, when the great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the small-pox; they make parties for this purpose, and when they are met (commonly fifteen or sixteen together), the old woman comes with a nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox, and asks what vein you please to have opened.
Page 633 - I cannot blame him : at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets ; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shaked like a coward.
Page 636 - I'm truly sorry man's dominion. Has broken nature's social union, An' justifies that ill opinion, Which makes thee startle At me, thy poor earth-born companion, An...
Page 576 - WHEN I was sick and lay a-bed, I had two pillows at my head, And all my toys beside me lay To keep me happy all the day. And sometimes for an hour or so I watched my leaden soldiers go, With different uniforms and drills, Among the bed-clothes, through the hills. And sometimes sent my ships in fleets All up and down among the sheets; Or brought my trees and houses out, And planted cities all about.
Page 361 - The smallpox, so fatal and so general amongst us, is here entirely harmless by the invention of ingrafting, which is the term they give it. There is a set of old women who make it their business to perform the operation every autumn, in the month of September, when the great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the smallpox...
Page 819 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.