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... royal 16mo , cloth , 288. Rivington . Weld - Two Months in the Highlands , Orcadia , and Skye . By C. R. Weld . Illustrated . Post 8vo , cloth , 12s . 6d . Longman and Co. Whaleman's ( The ) Adventures . Edited by the Rev. W. Scoresby ...
... royal 16mo , cloth , 288. Rivington . Weld - Two Months in the Highlands , Orcadia , and Skye . By C. R. Weld . Illustrated . Post 8vo , cloth , 12s . 6d . Longman and Co. Whaleman's ( The ) Adventures . Edited by the Rev. W. Scoresby ...
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... Royal Society , and the publication of a series of illustrative papers on the same subject by his brother - in - law , Mr. John Shaw , at last excited the attention he had so long waited for . Roused to animation , he wrote , " I have ...
... Royal Society , and the publication of a series of illustrative papers on the same subject by his brother - in - law , Mr. John Shaw , at last excited the attention he had so long waited for . Roused to animation , he wrote , " I have ...
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... Royal Academy would be determined by the test of " who wore hair powder . " And certainly some such condition as this seems indispensable in the appointment of such officers . Is it not required that the Speaker of the House of Commons ...
... Royal Academy would be determined by the test of " who wore hair powder . " And certainly some such condition as this seems indispensable in the appointment of such officers . Is it not required that the Speaker of the House of Commons ...
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... Royal Academy , in which academicians , associates , and students were alike to be enrolled . But the scheme failed . So Mr Shee joined as a private a corps formed in Bloomsbury , which , from its consisting mainly of members of the ...
... Royal Academy , in which academicians , associates , and students were alike to be enrolled . But the scheme failed . So Mr Shee joined as a private a corps formed in Bloomsbury , which , from its consisting mainly of members of the ...
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... royal sarco- was the seat of the fatal injury , very carefully examined . The phagus and coffin were opened , and the state of the head , which results of this examination , and of a very long discussion which Swedish Society of ...
... royal sarco- was the seat of the fatal injury , very carefully examined . The phagus and coffin were opened , and the state of the head , which results of this examination , and of a very long discussion which Swedish Society of ...
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Стр. 1 - I am fully convinced that species are not immutable; but that those belonging to what are called the same genera are lineal descendants of some other and generally extinct species, in the same manner as the acknowledged varieties of any one species are the descendants of that species. Furthermore, I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.
Стр. 7 - 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. 6 - 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. 7 - Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype. But analogy may be a deceitful guide.
Стр. 14 - And every plant of the field before it was in the earth and every herb of the field before it grew for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth and there was not a man to till the ground...
Стр. 29 - Seeva laid wait for me. I came suddenly upon Isis and Osiris : I had done a deed, they said, which the ibis and the crocodile trembled at.
Стр. 7 - It is satisfactory, as showing how transient such impressions are, to remember that the greatest discovery ever made by man, namely, the law of the attraction of gravity, was also attacked by Leibnitz, "as subversive of natural, and inferentially of revealed, religion.
Стр. 29 - Deeper than ever plummet sounded," I lay inactive. Then, like a chorus, the passion deepened. Some greater interest was at stake ; some mightier cause than ever yet the sword had pleaded, or trumpet had proclaimed. Then came sudden alarms ; hurryings to and fro ; trepidations of innumerable fugitives.
Стр. 29 - ... heartbreaking partings, and then — everlasting farewells! and, with a sigh such as the caves of hell sighed when the incestuous mother uttered the abhorred name of Death, the sound was reverberated — everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated — everlasting farewells! And I awoke in struggles, and cried aloud, "I will sleep no more!
Стр. 11 - Their Superiority in the ART of LANDSCAPE PAINTING to all the Ancient Masters, proved by examples of the True, the Beautiful, and the Intellectual, from the Works of Modern Artists, especially from those of JM Turner, Esq., RA By a GRADUATE of OXFORD.