The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts, 11. köideA. and C. Black, 1860 |
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... object on the present occasion to bring forward certain distinctions which have impressed themselves on my mind as of fundamental import- ance , depending principally on the period in the life - history of the species , at which a ...
... object on the present occasion to bring forward certain distinctions which have impressed themselves on my mind as of fundamental import- ance , depending principally on the period in the life - history of the species , at which a ...
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... objects of such primâ facie diversity - objects more unlike than even the large Medusa and the ovarian cysts of the Hydra - ought not , I conceive , to be adopted , ex- cept on the most convincing evidence . But there is no such cogency ...
... objects of such primâ facie diversity - objects more unlike than even the large Medusa and the ovarian cysts of the Hydra - ought not , I conceive , to be adopted , ex- cept on the most convincing evidence . But there is no such cogency ...
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... object which might not have been produced by float- ing ice , until we arrive within half a mile of its upper extre- mity . Indeed , the ascent of this valley is so very gradual that it is improbable glacial ice could have moved along ...
... object which might not have been produced by float- ing ice , until we arrive within half a mile of its upper extre- mity . Indeed , the ascent of this valley is so very gradual that it is improbable glacial ice could have moved along ...
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... object almost unique in its kind , and which the tourist frequently notices without being aware of its true meaning . At about the centre of the tarn , a smooth , oval boss of rock , about twelve feet in length , rises about two feet ...
... object almost unique in its kind , and which the tourist frequently notices without being aware of its true meaning . At about the centre of the tarn , a smooth , oval boss of rock , about twelve feet in length , rises about two feet ...
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... objects are regulated , might worthily and profitably exercise the faculties of some of our deeper thinkers . It is a ... object . These we may take up separately . Not that I wish it to be thereby in- ferred that they differ from each ...
... objects are regulated , might worthily and profitably exercise the faculties of some of our deeper thinkers . It is a ... object . These we may take up separately . Not that I wish it to be thereby in- ferred that they differ from each ...
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