Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History SocietyShropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society., 1885 |
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... present day would not write in this way of Erasmus Darwin's poetry , but the price given for the second instalment of the Botanic Garden , a thousand guineas , is sufficient proof of its remarkable popularity at the time , and Horace ...
... present day would not write in this way of Erasmus Darwin's poetry , but the price given for the second instalment of the Botanic Garden , a thousand guineas , is sufficient proof of its remarkable popularity at the time , and Horace ...
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... present his theories to the world until they seemed to be established by the accumulated results of observa- tion and experience . The grandson fell upon happier times , when men's minds were more open to receive new theories , but it ...
... present his theories to the world until they seemed to be established by the accumulated results of observa- tion and experience . The grandson fell upon happier times , when men's minds were more open to receive new theories , but it ...
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... present when the poet's voice " rose like a steam of rich - distilled perfumes , " as he gave out the text , out the text , " And He went up into the Mountain to pray , Himself , Alone . " Coleridge staid with the Tayleurs , who were ...
... present when the poet's voice " rose like a steam of rich - distilled perfumes , " as he gave out the text , out the text , " And He went up into the Mountain to pray , Himself , Alone . " Coleridge staid with the Tayleurs , who were ...
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... present , I have listened to the great men of those days , conversing on all sorts of subjects , with the most varied and brilliant powers . This was no small advantage to some of the younger men , as it stimulated their mental activity ...
... present , I have listened to the great men of those days , conversing on all sorts of subjects , with the most varied and brilliant powers . This was no small advantage to some of the younger men , as it stimulated their mental activity ...
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... present to the past inhabitants of that continent . These facts seemed to throw some light on the origin of species that mystery of mysteries , as it has been called by one 14 Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of H. M. S. Adventure and ...
... present to the past inhabitants of that continent . These facts seemed to throw some light on the origin of species that mystery of mysteries , as it has been called by one 14 Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of H. M. S. Adventure and ...
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Стр. 50 - It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth...
Стр. 50 - 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. 427 - No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it; as thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth...
Стр. 50 - These laws, taken in the largest sense, being growth with reproduction; inheritance, which is almost implied by reproduction; variability from the indirect and direct action of the conditions of life, and from use and disuse...
Стр. 61 - For my own part, I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the life of his keeper, or from that old baboon, who descending from the mountains, carried away in triumph his young comrade from a crowd of astonished dogs — as from a savage...
Стр. 61 - Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his own exertions, to the very summit of the organic scale ; and the fact of his having thus risen, instead of having been aboriginally placed there, may give him hope for a still higher destiny in the distant future.
Стр. 22 - These facts, as will be seen in the latter chapters of this volume, seemed to throw some light on the origin of species —that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers.
Стр. 56 - It is a marvelous reflection that the whole of the superficial mould over any such expanse has passed, and will again pass every few years, through the bodies of worms. The plough is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land...
Стр. 60 - I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one.
Стр. 427 - Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.