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... better for scholastic disputations , Natural Science has civilized man , elevat- ed his condition , increased the circle of his exertions , and , by the development of some of its simplest principles , united the intelligent , the ...
... better for scholastic disputations , Natural Science has civilized man , elevat- ed his condition , increased the circle of his exertions , and , by the development of some of its simplest principles , united the intelligent , the ...
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... better numbered with the dead ! Now , relenting , late repenting , Richard turns to Marcadee , Saying , " Haste , before I waver , bring the captive youth to me . " He is brought , his feet in fetters , heavy shackles on his hands , And ...
... better numbered with the dead ! Now , relenting , late repenting , Richard turns to Marcadee , Saying , " Haste , before I waver , bring the captive youth to me . " He is brought , his feet in fetters , heavy shackles on his hands , And ...
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... better adornment in the form of its presentation to the world , and ought to have a title more suggestive of its anti- quarian lore . I should call it " Fossil Remains of Old Maryland Law , with Notes by an Antiquary . " - It fell into ...
... better adornment in the form of its presentation to the world , and ought to have a title more suggestive of its anti- quarian lore . I should call it " Fossil Remains of Old Maryland Law , with Notes by an Antiquary . " - It fell into ...
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... better , as a puzzle for fledgling antiqua- ries . Six miles beyond the Rio Sirama we came to another stream , called the Sira- mita or Little Sirama , for the reason , probably , as H. suggested , that it is four times as large as the ...
... better , as a puzzle for fledgling antiqua- ries . Six miles beyond the Rio Sirama we came to another stream , called the Sira- mita or Little Sirama , for the reason , probably , as H. suggested , that it is four times as large as the ...
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... better and more philosophic spirit were wanting . We should have better and more instructive autobiographies , if distinguished men were not deterred by the self - denying ordinance so general- ly accepted , that it is not becoming in ...
... better and more philosophic spirit were wanting . We should have better and more instructive autobiographies , if distinguished men were not deterred by the self - denying ordinance so general- ly accepted , that it is not becoming in ...
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Page 233 - History of New York, from the beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty.
Page 207 - Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.
Page 123 - OF all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well...
Page 606 - THE GLACIERS OF THE ALPS : being a Narrative of Excursions and Ascents. An Account of the Origin and Phenomena of Glaciers, and an Exposition of the Physical Principles to which they are related.
Page 479 - A GLACIER is AN IMPERFECT FLUID, OR A VISCOUS BODY. WHICH IS URGED DOWN SLOPES OF A CERTAIN INCLINATION BY THE MUTUAL PRESSURE OF ITS PARTS.
Page 207 - I can entertain no doubt, after the most deliberate study and dispassionate judgment of which I am capable, that the view which most naturalists until recently entertained, and which I formerly entertained, namely, that each species has been independently created, is erroneous. I am fully convinced that species are not immutable...
Page 207 - ... been stated that I attribute the modification of species exclusively to natural selection, I may be permitted to remark that in the first edition of this work, and subsequently, I placed in a most conspicuous position — namely, at the close of the Introduction the following words : "I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not the exclusive means of modification.
Page 264 - He being thus lorded, Not only with what my revenue yielded. But what my power might else exact, — like one Who having unto truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie...
Page 476 - Netherlands, at the end of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the sixteenth, we find the allegorical drama giving way to more definite and direct personations.
Page 165 - Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent Tobacco, which goes far beyond all their panaceas, potable gold, and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases. A good vomit, I confess, a virtuous herb, if it be well qualified, opportunely taken, and medicinally used, but, as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as Tinkers do Ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, land, health, hellish, devilish, and damned Tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.