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... result of this brief inquiry , we may say that the ethnical composition of modern Britain is somewhat after the following fashion . First , there is a substratum or oldest stage of dark , non- Aryan people , whom we call Euskarians for ...
... result of this brief inquiry , we may say that the ethnical composition of modern Britain is somewhat after the following fashion . First , there is a substratum or oldest stage of dark , non- Aryan people , whom we call Euskarians for ...
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... result if the whole earth were fluid . The cohesion even of a granite stratum , of whatever thickness , small or great , does not prevent the whole stratum from pressing downwards , and communicating downwards the pressure it receives ...
... result if the whole earth were fluid . The cohesion even of a granite stratum , of whatever thickness , small or great , does not prevent the whole stratum from pressing downwards , and communicating downwards the pressure it receives ...
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... result is the same appreciably as though a ball were drawn at random and returned , the operation being repeated twelve times ; and this chance , again , is exactly the same as though the bag contained only 1 red , 1 white , 1 black ...
... result is the same appreciably as though a ball were drawn at random and returned , the operation being repeated twelve times ; and this chance , again , is exactly the same as though the bag contained only 1 red , 1 white , 1 black ...
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... result are slender , but Professor A. Geikie shows that the removal of one foot of rock occupies in some cases a few centuries ; in others as many chiliads . For example , the Po appears to lower the surface of the area drained by it at ...
... result are slender , but Professor A. Geikie shows that the removal of one foot of rock occupies in some cases a few centuries ; in others as many chiliads . For example , the Po appears to lower the surface of the area drained by it at ...
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... results on plates so preserved are seldom satisfactory . Various methods have been adopted for keeping the plates in a ... result . As compared with collodion , the time of exposure necessary to obtain a picture has been reduced to the ...
... results on plates so preserved are seldom satisfactory . Various methods have been adopted for keeping the plates in a ... result . As compared with collodion , the time of exposure necessary to obtain a picture has been reduced to the ...
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Стр. 27 - Now in building of chaises, I tell you what, There is always somewhere a weakest spot,— In hub, tire, felloe, in spring or thill, In panel, or crossbar, or floor, or sill, In screw, bolt, thoroughbrace,— lurking still, Find it somewhere you must and will,— Above or below, or within or without,— And that's the reason, beyond a doubt, That a chaise breaks down, but doesn't wear out. But the Deacon swore (as Deacons do, With an 'I dew vum...
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.
Стр. 193 - ... laid out and followed up to its original sources. For example : a knowledge of classical antiquity is scientific when the remains of classical antiquity are correctly studied in the original languages.
Стр. 38 - And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and my father's house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me; and the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have. And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation? that ye shall say, Thy servants...
Стр. 194 - ... there will be found to arise an invincible desire to relate this proposition to the sense in us for conduct, and to the sense in us for beauty. But this the men of science will not do for us, and will hardly even profess to do. They will give us other pieces...
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.