Essays Contributed to the 'Quarterly Review.".J. Murray, 1874 |
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... caused by the great diminution already created in their favourite food of the Tipulida and ephemeral flies by the draining of our wet and marshy lands . For it is evident that the same causes must be producing the same effects upon our ...
... caused by the great diminution already created in their favourite food of the Tipulida and ephemeral flies by the draining of our wet and marshy lands . For it is evident that the same causes must be producing the same effects upon our ...
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... causing them to circulate far more widely and freely over the earth . than other animals , give us the additional interest of detecting from time to time the presence of rare sojourners who com- monly haunt warmer climates or colder ...
... causing them to circulate far more widely and freely over the earth . than other animals , give us the additional interest of detecting from time to time the presence of rare sojourners who com- monly haunt warmer climates or colder ...
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... cause that birds are of swifter motion than beasts , ' not in the strength of their muscles , the projecting processes of their bones , and the mar- vellous provisions for their specific lightness , but in ' the greater proportion of ...
... cause that birds are of swifter motion than beasts , ' not in the strength of their muscles , the projecting processes of their bones , and the mar- vellous provisions for their specific lightness , but in ' the greater proportion of ...
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... cause of one of its great charms in the eyes of the sportsman . The great height of its spring head , 1200 feet above the sea , and the vastness of the mountain ridges which it drains give it at once its unequalled rapidity of flow and ...
... cause of one of its great charms in the eyes of the sportsman . The great height of its spring head , 1200 feet above the sea , and the vastness of the mountain ridges which it drains give it at once its unequalled rapidity of flow and ...
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... causes or effects ; can embrace no theory of the affections nor rationale of gratitude ; but owes its in- fallible certainty to the very simplicity of the single move- ment with which it acts . Even an observer so accurate as our author ...
... causes or effects ; can embrace no theory of the affections nor rationale of gratitude ; but owes its in- fallible certainty to the very simplicity of the single move- ment with which it acts . Even an observer so accurate as our author ...
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Стр. 99 - 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.
Стр. 130 - O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
Стр. 152 - But I have greater witness than that of John : for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me that the Father hath sent me.
Стр. 146 - Times, a series of anonymous publications, purporting to be written by members of the University, but which are in no way sanctioned by the University itself: " Resolved, that modes of interpretation such as are suggested in the said tract, evading rather than explaining the sense of the Thirty-nine Articles, and reconciling subscription to them with the adoption of errors which they were designed to counteract, defeat the object, and are inconsistent with the due observance of the above-mentioned...
Стр. 253 - Will you be ready with all faithful diligence to banish and drive away all erroneous and strange doctrines contrary to God's word...
Стр. 152 - Go and show John again those things which ye do hear and see : The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the Gospel preached to them.
Стр. 97 - Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows.
Стр. 211 - Whosoever shall offend one of these little ones, it were better for him that a mill-stone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Стр. 58 - Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype. But analogy may be a deceitful guide.
Стр. 345 - Froude, — in his intellectual aspect, — as a man of high genius, brimful and overflowing with ideas and views, in him original, which were too many and strong even for his bodily strength, and which crowded and jostled against each other in their effort after distinct shape and expression. And he had an intellect as critical and logical as it was speculative and bold.