The Edinburgh Review, Հատոր 48,Հատոր 82A. and C. Black, 1845 |
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... considered as verging on the region of ' ascertained truths , ' ( p . 20. ) It is a splendid vision , and may vanish in mid air ; or , after five hundred years of continued ob- servations , it may pass into a good substantial theory ...
... considered as verging on the region of ' ascertained truths , ' ( p . 20. ) It is a splendid vision , and may vanish in mid air ; or , after five hundred years of continued ob- servations , it may pass into a good substantial theory ...
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... considered by some writers , and perhaps correctly , as a part of the Cretaceous system . - 10. Cretaceous system . In all the preceding subdivisions of the secondary rocks as seen in Britain , calcareous matter formed but a subordinate ...
... considered by some writers , and perhaps correctly , as a part of the Cretaceous system . - 10. Cretaceous system . In all the preceding subdivisions of the secondary rocks as seen in Britain , calcareous matter formed but a subordinate ...
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... considered by Professor E. Forbes identical with T. vitrea . If these views be correct , the chalk is the true Eocene formation , and they would fall in with the opinions of Agassiz founded on fossil fishes . development , and rejects ...
... considered by Professor E. Forbes identical with T. vitrea . If these views be correct , the chalk is the true Eocene formation , and they would fall in with the opinions of Agassiz founded on fossil fishes . development , and rejects ...
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... considered New Holland as one of the oldest countries of the world ; and he might have argued ( from its Flora , its Cestracionts , its Trigoniæ , and its Marsu- pials ) that it was as old as our oolites ; but this would not have served ...
... considered New Holland as one of the oldest countries of the world ; and he might have argued ( from its Flora , its Cestracionts , its Trigoniæ , and its Marsu- pials ) that it was as old as our oolites ; but this would not have served ...
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... considered so mysterious . The eggs are dropped by an insect on the skin - the animal licks them off , and so they pass into the stomach , where they find a proper nidus , and then pass through their first changes . Speaking generally ...
... considered so mysterious . The eggs are dropped by an insect on the skin - the animal licks them off , and so they pass into the stomach , where they find a proper nidus , and then pass through their first changes . Speaking generally ...
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Էջ 106 - Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
Էջ 504 - he is a middle.sized, spare man, about forty years old, of a brown complexion, and dark-brown coloured hair, but wears a wig ; a hooked nose, a sharp chin, grey eyes, and a large mole near his mouth...
Էջ 79 - My substance, was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes, did see my substance, yet being imperfect ; and, in thy book, all my members, were written, which, in continuance, were fashioned, when, as yet, there was none of them.
Էջ 258 - ... that this agreement is not to be construed to the prejudice of any claim which either of the two high contracting parties may have to any part of the said country...
Էջ 202 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Էջ 425 - I was an absolute pedant : when I talked my best, I quoted Horace ; when I aimed at being facetious, I quoted Martial ; and when I had a mind to be a fine gentleman, I talked Ovid.
Էջ 37 - O, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made them and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Էջ 277 - And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire ; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
Էջ 437 - The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.
Էջ 449 - Talk often, but never long ; in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers. Pay your own reckoning, but do not treat the whole company, — this being one of the very few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay.