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... miles ' altitude , 186 Beatrice and Benedick , 440 Beer - drinking , observations on , 221 Bicycle , how kept in a vertical position , 99 Bicycle - riding , remarks on , 82 Bicycling injurious to the spine , 99 Blowpipe beads , change ...
... miles ' altitude , 186 Beatrice and Benedick , 440 Beer - drinking , observations on , 221 Bicycle , how kept in a vertical position , 99 Bicycle - riding , remarks on , 82 Bicycling injurious to the spine , 99 Blowpipe beads , change ...
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... miles . The most densely populated region ( East Flanders ) has a population of about 700 to the square mile . If the whole land surface of the earth were on the average as densely peopled , the earth's population would be ...
... miles . The most densely populated region ( East Flanders ) has a population of about 700 to the square mile . If the whole land surface of the earth were on the average as densely peopled , the earth's population would be ...
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... miles long and 60 miles wide . That is , if we may reckon an average population of 750,000,000 , and 160 generations of 25 years each . Thus- 750,000,000 average population . 160 generations . 120,000,000,000 total population . = 4,000 ...
... miles long and 60 miles wide . That is , if we may reckon an average population of 750,000,000 , and 160 generations of 25 years each . Thus- 750,000,000 average population . 160 generations . 120,000,000,000 total population . = 4,000 ...
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... miles . The minima here were lower than at Valentia on those 21 days as follows :-( The amount is given in whole ... miles to spare . I have taken the present population , as given by the German statisticians , at 1,456 millions ( nearly ) ...
... miles . The minima here were lower than at Valentia on those 21 days as follows :-( The amount is given in whole ... miles to spare . I have taken the present population , as given by the German statisticians , at 1,456 millions ( nearly ) ...
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... mile at a moderate pace without inconvenience . But how many can do this ? We do not invite paterfamilias to try the experiment , unless he is prepared to stop the trial so soon as he is satisfied that he cannot run the mile without ...
... mile at a moderate pace without inconvenience . But how many can do this ? We do not invite paterfamilias to try the experiment , unless he is prepared to stop the trial so soon as he is satisfied that he cannot run the mile without ...
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Стр. 194 - ... period of unsettlement and confusion and false tendency; but letters will not in the end lose their leading place. If they lose it for a time, they will get it back again. We shall be brought back to them by our wants and aspirations.
Стр. 194 - the notions of the beginning and the end of the world entertained by our forefathers are no longer credible. It is very certain that the earth is not the chief body in the material universe, and that the world is not subordinated to man's use. It is even more certain that nature is the expression of a definite order, with which nothing interferes.
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Стр. 144 - Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years. And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years...
Стр. 193 - The great results of the scientific investigation of nature we are agreed upon knowing, but how much of our study are we bound to give to the processes by which those results are reached ? The results have their visible bearing on human life. But all the processes, too, all the items of fact, by which those results are reached and established, are interesting.
Стр. 23 - Into this Universe, and Why not knowing Nor Whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing ; And out of it, as Wind along the Waste, I know not Whither, willy-nilly blowing.
Стр. 194 - Darwin's famous proposition that ' our ancestor was a hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits.