The Edinburgh Review, Том 111A. and C. Black, 1860 |
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... write to India for 5000 troops , and to wait for in- structions from England . Such was the state of our affairs in China when the House of Commons engaged in that most dis- creditable debate on Mr. Cobden's motion ; and when , in fact ...
... write to India for 5000 troops , and to wait for in- structions from England . Such was the state of our affairs in China when the House of Commons engaged in that most dis- creditable debate on Mr. Cobden's motion ; and when , in fact ...
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... write a despatch in Japanese ; but give us five years , and we shall be quite competent to correspond with you in English . " This affords a striking contrast to our experience at Tientsin , where we found such difficulty in inducing ...
... write a despatch in Japanese ; but give us five years , and we shall be quite competent to correspond with you in English . " This affords a striking contrast to our experience at Tientsin , where we found such difficulty in inducing ...
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not meet a single native who could speak , read , and write English correctly . ' In Japan , on the other hand , there is a rage for the acquisition of every description of knowledge . A Chinaman thinks that any study but that of the ...
not meet a single native who could speak , read , and write English correctly . ' In Japan , on the other hand , there is a rage for the acquisition of every description of knowledge . A Chinaman thinks that any study but that of the ...
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... writes two distinct narratives of the Eastern Ques- tion of 1840. The first is in vol . v . pp . 543-70 . , the second in vol . vi . pp . 82–110 .; and both are marked by the same fun- damental misconception of the settlement of that ...
... writes two distinct narratives of the Eastern Ques- tion of 1840. The first is in vol . v . pp . 543-70 . , the second in vol . vi . pp . 82–110 .; and both are marked by the same fun- damental misconception of the settlement of that ...
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... writes . The error is so great that it pervades and vitiates his whole work . The cardinal domestic measures which he condemns as ruinous , revolutionary , and without precedent , involve either a mere return to the status quo ante ...
... writes . The error is so great that it pervades and vitiates his whole work . The cardinal domestic measures which he condemns as ruinous , revolutionary , and without precedent , involve either a mere return to the status quo ante ...
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Стр. 504 - Let it be borne in mind how infinitely complex and close-fitting are the mutual relations of all organic beings to each other and to their physical conditions of life. Can it, then, be thought improbable, seeing that variations useful to man have undoubtedly occurred, that other variations useful in some way to each being in the great...
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Стр. 161 - By art likewise we make them greater or taller than their kind is, and contrariwise dwarf them and stay their growth; we make them more fruitful and bearing than their kind is, and contrariwise barren and not generative.
Стр. 495 - I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection, in order to mark its relation to man's power of selection.
Стр. 506 - ... let these same changes cause the number of rabbits very slowly to decrease, and the number of hares to increase; the effect of this would be that the fox or dog would be driven to try...
Стр. 161 - ... may take light what may be wrought upon the body of man. Wherein we find many strange effects: as continuing life in them, though divers parts, which you account vital, be perished and taken forth; resuscitating of some that seem dead in appearance, and the like. We try also all poisons, and other medicines upon them, as well of chirurgery as physic.
Стр. 376 - Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations ; they call their lands after their own names.
Стр. 504 - In the case of the mistletoe, which draws its nourishment from certain trees, which has seeds that must be transported by certain birds, and which has flowers with separate sexes absolutely requiring the agency of certain insects to bring pollen from one flower to...