The Contemporary Review, Том 36A. Strahan, 1879 |
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... becomes the more embarrassing and futile with aggressive foreign Powers pressing on all sides with their irresistible ... become the prey to interminable civil wars . It will be better , moreover , for England and other nations , whose ...
... becomes the more embarrassing and futile with aggressive foreign Powers pressing on all sides with their irresistible ... become the prey to interminable civil wars . It will be better , moreover , for England and other nations , whose ...
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... become apparent later , when the organization of living beings shall have been portrayed as far as the space and the ability at the command of the writer may enable him to portray them . As before said the object now in view is to ...
... become apparent later , when the organization of living beings shall have been portrayed as far as the space and the ability at the command of the writer may enable him to portray them . As before said the object now in view is to ...
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... become extinct . The sub - order of even - toed ungulates , or Artiodactyla , comprises all oxen , sheep , goats , antelopes , giraffes , deer , chevrotains , * llamas , and camels . All these , from their practice of " chewing the cud ...
... become extinct . The sub - order of even - toed ungulates , or Artiodactyla , comprises all oxen , sheep , goats , antelopes , giraffes , deer , chevrotains , * llamas , and camels . All these , from their practice of " chewing the cud ...
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... become extinct , yet the proportion borne by the known extinct forms to the living kinds is much less than amongst reptiles , and that while it is the most highly - organized reptiles which have ceased to exist , the highest mammals ...
... become extinct , yet the proportion borne by the known extinct forms to the living kinds is much less than amongst reptiles , and that while it is the most highly - organized reptiles which have ceased to exist , the highest mammals ...
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... become familiar objects through our aquaria , where their very eccentric forms and remarkable movements naturally attract attention . To this group also belongs Spirula , the coiled and chambered shell of which is found so abundantly ...
... become familiar objects through our aquaria , where their very eccentric forms and remarkable movements naturally attract attention . To this group also belongs Spirula , the coiled and chambered shell of which is found so abundantly ...
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Стр. 72 - Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
Стр. 519 - It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied ; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.
Стр. 575 - Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods And mountains, and of all that we behold From this green earth...
Стр. 516 - They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it. In words a man may pretend to abjure their empire: but in reality he will remain subject to it all the while. The principle of utility...
Стр. 187 - From his late sobbing wet. And I, with moan, Kissing away his tears, left others of my own ; For, on a table drawn beside his head, He had put, within his reach, A box of counters and a...
Стр. 518 - Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals, for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures : no intelligent human being would consent to be a. fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs.
Стр. 86 - We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason, because we suspect that this stock in each man is small and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.
Стр. 563 - With whose beauty if they being delighted took them to be gods; let them know how much better the Lord of them is: for the first author of beauty hath created them.
Стр. 188 - Ah! when at last we lie with tranced breath, Not vexing Thee in death, And Thou rememberest of what toys We made our joys, How weakly understood Thy great commanded good, Then, fatherly not less Than I whom Thou hast moulded from the clay, Thou'lt leave Thy wrath, and say, 'I will be sorry for their childishness.
Стр. 519 - Men often, from infirmity of character, make their election for the nearer good, though they know it to be the less valuable; and this no less when the choice is between two bodily pleasures than when it is between bodily and mental.