Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, 23. köide;86. köideJohn Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1876 |
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... Effect of Rain on Sea - Waves , 253 - New Method of Hardening Sandstone , 253 - Mercury as a Motive Power , 253 - Action of Frost on Full - grown Trees , 253 - Influence of Feeding over Development of Body , 254 - The House - Fly , 254 ...
... Effect of Rain on Sea - Waves , 253 - New Method of Hardening Sandstone , 253 - Mercury as a Motive Power , 253 - Action of Frost on Full - grown Trees , 253 - Influence of Feeding over Development of Body , 254 - The House - Fly , 254 ...
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... effect is height- ened by his account of the preceding de- liberations in the Council , and the manner in which the train was quietly laid for the grand explosion , so that it should burst upon the surprised legists and bastards like a ...
... effect is height- ened by his account of the preceding de- liberations in the Council , and the manner in which the train was quietly laid for the grand explosion , so that it should burst upon the surprised legists and bastards like a ...
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... effect of this kind on my right reverend and reverend critics of the new mathematical school . Here accord- ingly it is : " Die Schraubenfläche mit ge- neigter Erzeugungslinie , und die Beding- ungen des Gleichgewichts auf solchen ...
... effect of this kind on my right reverend and reverend critics of the new mathematical school . Here accord- ingly it is : " Die Schraubenfläche mit ge- neigter Erzeugungslinie , und die Beding- ungen des Gleichgewichts auf solchen ...
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... effects of tenden- cies received at birth , and of those that were imposed by the circumstances of their after lives ; in other words , between the effects of nature and of nurture . This is a subject of especial importance in its ...
... effects of tenden- cies received at birth , and of those that were imposed by the circumstances of their after lives ; in other words , between the effects of nature and of nurture . This is a subject of especial importance in its ...
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... effect of different nurtures , but that it is quite possible that it may be due to the appearance of qualities inherited at birth , though dormant , like gout , in early life . To this I shall recur . There is a curious feature in the ...
... effect of different nurtures , but that it is quite possible that it may be due to the appearance of qualities inherited at birth , though dormant , like gout , in early life . To this I shall recur . There is a curious feature in the ...
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Page 219 - In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go ; And some thro' wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below.
Page 447 - We only toil, who are the first of things. And make perpetual moan, Still from one sorrow to another thrown : Nor ever fold our wings, And cease from wanderings, Nor steep our brows in slumber's holy balm; Nor harken what the inner spirit sings,
Page 95 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Page 18 - ... the passage from' the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process...
Page 41 - There is no escape from the conclusion that nature prevails enormously over nurture when the differences of nurture do not exceed what is commonly to be found among persons of the same rank of society and in the same country.
Page 213 - The first time I was in company with Foote was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased, and it is very difficult to please a man against his will. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog was so very comical, that I was obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back upon my chair, and fairly laugh it out. No, Sir, he was irresistible.* He upon one occasion experienced, in an extraordinary degree,...
Page 15 - The impregnable position of science may be described in a few words. We claim, and we shall wrest from theology, the entire domain of cosmological theory. All schemes and systems which thus infringe upon the domain of science must, in so far as they do this, submit to its control, and relinquish all thought of controlling it.
Page 171 - Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter.
Page 18 - Were our minds and senses so expanded, strengthened, and illuminated, as to enable us to see and feel the very molecules of the brain ; were we capable of following all their motions, all their groupings, all their...
Page 243 - Hath He marks to lead me to Him, If He be my Guide? " In His Feet and Hands are wound-prints, And His side.