The Quarterly Review, 211. köideWilliam Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1909 |
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... Complete Works of Count Tolstoy . Translated and Abed by Leo Wiener . Twenty - four vols . Lon- don Dent , 1904 3 . And other works . Axe @ RscaNE STATE FINANCE AND THE Budget Spooch by the Rt Hon . David Lloyd George on intro- ducers ...
... Complete Works of Count Tolstoy . Translated and Abed by Leo Wiener . Twenty - four vols . Lon- don Dent , 1904 3 . And other works . Axe @ RscaNE STATE FINANCE AND THE Budget Spooch by the Rt Hon . David Lloyd George on intro- ducers ...
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... complete gradation from geo- graphically separate varieties of a species which are very distinct from one another in colour , pattern and structure in all individuals , to geographically separate portions of a species which do not ...
... complete gradation from geo- graphically separate varieties of a species which are very distinct from one another in colour , pattern and structure in all individuals , to geographically separate portions of a species which do not ...
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... complete over a long piece of geological history , a great deal is known of the gradual modification of species in the successive strata of a single formation or an important section of a formation . During a recent visit to America ...
... complete over a long piece of geological history , a great deal is known of the gradual modification of species in the successive strata of a single formation or an important section of a formation . During a recent visit to America ...
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... complete . Any larger expectation appears to be based on a miscon- ception of the criteria which lead to success or failure in the struggle for existence . A crude and extreme form of this misconception , published in the North American ...
... complete . Any larger expectation appears to be based on a miscon- ception of the criteria which lead to success or failure in the struggle for existence . A crude and extreme form of this misconception , published in the North American ...
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... complete . Equally clear proof of continuous evolution is provided by the study of the belemnite Actinocamax . Although this genus reaches at definite zonal levels a sufficiently accentuated degree of variation in its intrinsic ...
... complete . Equally clear proof of continuous evolution is provided by the study of the belemnite Actinocamax . Although this genus reaches at definite zonal levels a sufficiently accentuated degree of variation in its intrinsic ...
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Page 425 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Page 481 - Whereas, however, the contracting Powers have been unable to come to an agreement on the question whether the conversion of a merchant ship into a war-ship may take place upon the high seas, it is understood that the question of the place where such conversion is effected remains outside the scope of this agreement and is in no way affected by the following rules...
Page 492 - And therefore when any one of these pantomimic gentlemen, who are so clever that they can imitate anything, comes to us, and makes a proposal to exhibit himself and his poetry, we will fall down and worship him as a sweet and holy and wonderful being; but we must also inform him that in our State such as he are not permitted to exist; the law will not allow them. And so when we have anointed him with myrrh, and set a garland of wool upon his head, we shall send him away to another city. For we mean...
Page 178 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Page 91 - And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.
Page 474 - A blockade is not regarded as raised if the blockading force is temporarily withdrawn on account of stress of weather.
Page 404 - ... forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called genius. The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great painter of the present age, had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's treatise.
Page 475 - ARTICLE 37 A vessel carrying goods liable to capture as absolute or conditional contraband may be captured on the high seas or in the territorial waters of the belligerents throughout the whole of her voyage, even if she is to touch at a port of call before reaching the hostile destination.
Page 91 - So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water...
Page 405 - Being exposed in the picture gallery, along with his other works, it was seen either by Mr Edmund Burke or Dr Goldsmith (I am not certain which), who immediately exclaimed, that it struck him as being the precise person, countenance, and expression of the Count Ugolino, as described by Dante in his "Inferno.