The Atlantic Monthly, Том 6Atlantic Monthly Company, 1860 |
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... course of a year , a stratum of ice 46 feet thick , though it covered the whole globe , and as a consequence the amount of unradiated heat would render it uninhabitable . The relative position of the sun affects temperature , rather ...
... course of a year , a stratum of ice 46 feet thick , though it covered the whole globe , and as a consequence the amount of unradiated heat would render it uninhabitable . The relative position of the sun affects temperature , rather ...
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... course it is much light- er , and it floats . This admirable arrange- ment prevents our rivers being frozen up and our lakes becoming solid . Ice thickens because it is porous , and allows the heat of the water to pass up and the cold ...
... course it is much light- er , and it floats . This admirable arrange- ment prevents our rivers being frozen up and our lakes becoming solid . Ice thickens because it is porous , and allows the heat of the water to pass up and the cold ...
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... course , the lords would sneer , — But never sneer before him ! Perhaps it fared with the ladies worse Than it fared with their gallants ; For he broke a vow with as slight remorse As he ever broke a lance . Thus , tilting here and ...
... course , the lords would sneer , — But never sneer before him ! Perhaps it fared with the ladies worse Than it fared with their gallants ; For he broke a vow with as slight remorse As he ever broke a lance . Thus , tilting here and ...
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... course they drank with a right good will , For they never missed a chance " to fill . " And yet a few , I'm sorry to own , Made side - remarks in an undertone , Like those we hear , when , nowadays , Good - natured friends , with ...
... course they drank with a right good will , For they never missed a chance " to fill . " And yet a few , I'm sorry to own , Made side - remarks in an undertone , Like those we hear , when , nowadays , Good - natured friends , with ...
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... course , could not escape our special attention , and , upon inquiry , we were told that it was once , a long time ago , the family home of the Rousbys , the ancestors of the present occupants of the estate ; that several generations of ...
... course , could not escape our special attention , and , upon inquiry , we were told that it was once , a long time ago , the family home of the Rousbys , the ancestors of the present occupants of the estate ; that several generations of ...
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Стр. 207 - I can entertain no doubt, after the most deliberate study and dispassionate judgment of which I am capable, that the view which most naturalists until recently entertained, and which I formerly entertained, namely, that each species has been independently created, is erroneous. I am fully convinced that species are not immutable...
Стр. 207 - ... been stated that I attribute the modification of species exclusively to natural selection, I may be permitted to remark that in the first edition of this work, and subsequently, I placed in a most conspicuous position — namely, at the close of the Introduction the following words : "I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not the exclusive means of modification.
Стр. 264 - He being thus lorded, Not only with what my revenue yielded. But what my power might else exact, — like one Who having unto truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie...
Стр. 476 - Netherlands, at the end of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the sixteenth, we find the allegorical drama giving way to more definite and direct personations.
Стр. 165 - Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent Tobacco, which goes far beyond all their panaceas, potable gold, and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases. A good vomit, I confess, a virtuous herb, if it be well qualified, opportunely taken, and medicinally used, but, as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as Tinkers do Ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, land, health, hellish, devilish, and damned Tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.