Essays Contributed to the 'Quarterly Review.".J. Murray, 1874 |
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... passage . Mr. Knox maintains that these migrations are not confined to those birds which from their insectivorous habits are com- monly reputed birds of passage , but extend very widely amongst the conirostral tribes also , including ...
... passage . Mr. Knox maintains that these migrations are not confined to those birds which from their insectivorous habits are com- monly reputed birds of passage , but extend very widely amongst the conirostral tribes also , including ...
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... passage from the Falconidae to the Strigidæ , which may be observed amongst our own birds . From the proper falcons , which fly only by day , and obtain their food by the rapidity and boldness of their assaults , we are led ...
... passage from the Falconidae to the Strigidæ , which may be observed amongst our own birds . From the proper falcons , which fly only by day , and obtain their food by the rapidity and boldness of their assaults , we are led ...
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... passages , I found it impossible to touch the further ex- tremity , while a few cavities of smaller dimensions were within reach of my hand , and contained nests constructed of short dry sticks , some of which were incomplete , while in ...
... passages , I found it impossible to touch the further ex- tremity , while a few cavities of smaller dimensions were within reach of my hand , and contained nests constructed of short dry sticks , some of which were incomplete , while in ...
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... passage from Mr. Gould's ' Birds of Great Britain , ' now in course of publication : - ' Among fishermen , the water ouzel , or Cinclus aquaticus , has a bad character , from their belief that it feeds on the ova of the trout and salmon ...
... passage from Mr. Gould's ' Birds of Great Britain , ' now in course of publication : - ' Among fishermen , the water ouzel , or Cinclus aquaticus , has a bad character , from their belief that it feeds on the ova of the trout and salmon ...
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... passage , indeed , of his whole volume is that in which he describes his chase , not of the ' travelling Salmo , ' but of the solemnly reposing ichthyolites of the Tynet burn . For a whole day he pecks , and hammers , and wades , and ...
... passage , indeed , of his whole volume is that in which he describes his chase , not of the ' travelling Salmo , ' but of the solemnly reposing ichthyolites of the Tynet burn . For a whole day he pecks , and hammers , and wades , and ...
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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.