The Atlantic Monthly, 6. köideAtlantic Monthly Company, 1860 |
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... comes also under the notice of the meteorologist . The receiv- ed opinion is , that there is no inherent color in any object we look at , but that it is in the light itself which falls upon and is reflected from the object . Each object ...
... comes also under the notice of the meteorologist . The receiv- ed opinion is , that there is no inherent color in any object we look at , but that it is in the light itself which falls upon and is reflected from the object . Each object ...
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... comes only from the Nimbus , which is quite unlike the others . It puts on a dark gray color , has irregular trans- parent edges , and increases rapidly so as to obscure the sky . It appears to absorb the other clouds , to be a union of ...
... comes only from the Nimbus , which is quite unlike the others . It puts on a dark gray color , has irregular trans- parent edges , and increases rapidly so as to obscure the sky . It appears to absorb the other clouds , to be a union of ...
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... comes solid , though its density is actually diminished , and its specific gravity is re- duced to .929 , while that of unfrozen wa ter is 1.000 . Of course it is much light- er , and it floats . This admirable arrange- ment prevents ...
... comes solid , though its density is actually diminished , and its specific gravity is re- duced to .929 , while that of unfrozen wa ter is 1.000 . Of course it is much light- er , and it floats . This admirable arrange- ment prevents ...
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... comes , I hold it still My duty to do thy royal will . If I should fail to serve thee fair , May I be doomed to suffer there ! " I've often met with a fast young friend More ready to borrow than I to lend ; I've heard smooth men in ...
... comes , I hold it still My duty to do thy royal will . If I should fail to serve thee fair , May I be doomed to suffer there ! " I've often met with a fast young friend More ready to borrow than I to lend ; I've heard smooth men in ...
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... comes brattling down the bank , along the base of a hill of some magnitude that yet retains the stately name of Mount Ararat . The visitor of this cavern might approach it by a boat from the river , or by a rugged path along the margin ...
... comes brattling down the bank , along the base of a hill of some magnitude that yet retains the stately name of Mount Ararat . The visitor of this cavern might approach it by a boat from the river , or by a rugged path along the margin ...
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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.