 | 1809 - Страниц: 336
...genus, or 'species to another* so faint are the lines that separate even the kingdoms from each other, that It is impossible to say where the one ends and the other begins. " The water polypus," says Buffbn, " may be considered as the " last fcnimal 6r the first vegetable." Yet,... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1856 - Страниц: 604
...and discipline. There was no abrupt transition from the Roman to the Barbarian or Germanic world, and it is impossible to say where the one ends and the other begins. There is scarcely an objectionable feature in mediaeval society that cannot be traced to a... | |
 | Asa Gray - 1857 - Страниц: 264
...regular gradation from the last leaves of the plant (bracts or bractlets) into the leaves of the calyx, that it is impossible to say where the one ends and the other begins. And if sepals are leaves, so also are petals ; for there is no clearly fixed limit between... | |
 | Josiah P. Cooke, Jr. - 1860 - Страниц: 754
...that the distinction between solution and chemical combination is by no means so clearly marked, and that it is impossible to say where the one ends and the other begins. In many cases, what seems to be an example of simple solution can be shown to be a mixed effect,... | |
 | 1860 - Страниц: 350
...new structures may pass almost imperceptibly into each other ; indeed, with a high magnifying power it is impossible to say where the one ends and the other commences ; it is only by using a low power, when the general arrangement of the parts can be seen... | |
 | David Page - 1864 - Страниц: 136
...it not for the paucity of plant-remains and the generally redder colour of the strata, it would be impossible to say where the one ends and the other begins. The following tabulation exhibits the succession of Permian strata as they occur in the areas of Durham... | |
 | Asa Gray - 1868 - Страниц: 660
...regular gradation from the last leaves of the plant (bracts or bractlets) into the leaves of the calyx, that it is impossible to say where the one ends and the other begins. And if sepals are leaves, so also are petals ; for there is no clearly fixed limit between... | |
 | Asa Gray - 1869 - Страниц: 1034
...regular gradation from the last leaves of the 9 plant (bracts or bractlets) into the leaves of the calyx, that it is impossible to say where the one ends and the other begins. And if sepals are leaves, so also are petals ; for there is no clearly fixed limit between... | |
 | 1875 - Страниц: 884
...there Dr. Hooker will tell us of the wondrous fly-catching and fly-devouring power of the Dionsea. No man can say that the feelings of the animal are...impossible to say where the one ends and the other begins. In all such inquiries we are necessarily limited by our own powers : we observe what our senses,... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1876 - Страниц: 656
...there Dr. -Hooker will tell us of the wondrous fly-catching and fly-devouring power of the Dionsea. No man can say that the feelings of the animal are...impossible to say where the one ends and the other begins. In all such enquiries we are necessarily limited by our own powers : we observe what our senses,... | |
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At all events, no line has ever been drawn between the conscious and the unconscious ; for the vegetable shades into the animal by such fine gradations, that it is impossible to say where the one ends and the other begins. 
