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... look through a paper tube at the moon when on the horizon , the paper being folded so as to make the aperture of its exact size , and then look again at it when it reaches the zenith , we shall find there is no difference . On the other ...
... look through a paper tube at the moon when on the horizon , the paper being folded so as to make the aperture of its exact size , and then look again at it when it reaches the zenith , we shall find there is no difference . On the other ...
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... look at , but that it is in the light itself which falls upon and is reflected from the object . Each object , having a particular reflecting sur- face of its own , throws back light at its own angle , absorbing some rays and dis ...
... look at , but that it is in the light itself which falls upon and is reflected from the object . Each object , having a particular reflecting sur- face of its own , throws back light at its own angle , absorbing some rays and dis ...
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... look there was no mistaking , - A look which the courtiers never saw Without a sudden desire to draw Away from the sweep of the lion's paw Before their bones were aching . He caught the herald , - ' twas by the 18 [ July , Treasure - Trove ...
... look there was no mistaking , - A look which the courtiers never saw Without a sudden desire to draw Away from the sweep of the lion's paw Before their bones were aching . He caught the herald , - ' twas by the 18 [ July , Treasure - Trove ...
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... look around the neighborhood , which , being the scene of much historical interest in our older annals , presented a pleasant temptation to our excursion . Our friend- ly guide , Mr. Carberry , took us to Drum Point , the southern ...
... look around the neighborhood , which , being the scene of much historical interest in our older annals , presented a pleasant temptation to our excursion . Our friend- ly guide , Mr. Carberry , took us to Drum Point , the southern ...
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... looks like vainglory , but it is not such . The memoirs show a mor- tal dread of calumny or misrepresenta- tion . Mr ... look ; he might also have puz- zled and bewildered Mr. Hogg , being , perhaps , puzzled and bewildered him- self ...
... looks like vainglory , but it is not such . The memoirs show a mor- tal dread of calumny or misrepresenta- tion . Mr ... look ; he might also have puz- zled and bewildered Mr. Hogg , being , perhaps , puzzled and bewildered him- self ...
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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.