The Atlantic Monthly, 6. köideAtlantic Monthly Company, 1860 |
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... present in the atmosphere , on being subjected to a decrease of temper- ature , begins to be precipitated or con- densed . It is the same as the point of saturation . Daniell calls it " the constit- uent temperature of atmospheric vapor ...
... present in the atmosphere , on being subjected to a decrease of temper- ature , begins to be precipitated or con- densed . It is the same as the point of saturation . Daniell calls it " the constit- uent temperature of atmospheric vapor ...
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... tation of boulders , and as an article of luxury ; but we are compelled to leave them for the present . Snow , which , in its crystallization , sur- passes the most perfect gems , is invari- ably found 12 [ July , Meteorology .
... tation of boulders , and as an article of luxury ; but we are compelled to leave them for the present . Snow , which , in its crystallization , sur- passes the most perfect gems , is invari- ably found 12 [ July , Meteorology .
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... present day , with all the appurtenances proper to a convenient and pleasant country homestead . Immediately in its neighborhood · so near that it might be said to be almost within the curtilage of the dwelling stood an old brick ruin ...
... present day , with all the appurtenances proper to a convenient and pleasant country homestead . Immediately in its neighborhood · so near that it might be said to be almost within the curtilage of the dwelling stood an old brick ruin ...
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... present generation , and to be fast falling a prey to the tooth of time and the visit of the worm . A few years more of neg- lect and the ill usage of careless custo- dians , and it would have passed to that depository of things lost ...
... present generation , and to be fast falling a prey to the tooth of time and the visit of the worm . A few years more of neg- lect and the ill usage of careless custo- dians , and it would have passed to that depository of things lost ...
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... present generation a becoming pride at having fallen heirs to such a princi- pality ; albeit Benedict Leonard's more recent successors to these princely pre- rogatives may have reason to complain of that relentless spirit of democracy ...
... present generation a becoming pride at having fallen heirs to such a princi- pality ; albeit Benedict Leonard's more recent successors to these princely pre- rogatives may have reason to complain of that relentless spirit of democracy ...
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Page 233 - History of New York, from the beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty.
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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.
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