Proceedings of the Literary & Philosophical Society of Liverpool, 第 14~15 巻The Society, 1860 |
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... . But there is slight need for apprehension that these externals of science will receive too little attention ; such has never been the common fault . The melancholy fruits of an opposite course are manifest , and 23.
... . But there is slight need for apprehension that these externals of science will receive too little attention ; such has never been the common fault . The melancholy fruits of an opposite course are manifest , and 23.
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Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool. melancholy fruits of an opposite course are manifest , and form what may be justly termed the opprobrium of science in many of its eminent professors . What arrogance , what impatience of ...
Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool. melancholy fruits of an opposite course are manifest , and form what may be justly termed the opprobrium of science in many of its eminent professors . What arrogance , what impatience of ...
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... fruit tree is too much manured it runs into leaf , and produces little blossom or fruit ; but if the same tree , which has thus become almost barren , is deprived of manure and the branches pruned , the leaves diminish in number and ...
... fruit tree is too much manured it runs into leaf , and produces little blossom or fruit ; but if the same tree , which has thus become almost barren , is deprived of manure and the branches pruned , the leaves diminish in number and ...
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... fruit- ful , and bears seeds , of which before it was destitute . That is to say , " starve a double flower and the petals change into stamens and seed vessels . " This conversion of petals into stamens is readily seen in the water lily ...
... fruit- ful , and bears seeds , of which before it was destitute . That is to say , " starve a double flower and the petals change into stamens and seed vessels . " This conversion of petals into stamens is readily seen in the water lily ...
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... fruit is the ordinary one ; for instead of the flower ending in a cherry , it produces two distinct green leaves in its centre , and never bears any fruit at all . In the pear , represented in pl . 1 , fig . 4 , the stalk which has ...
... fruit is the ordinary one ; for instead of the flower ending in a cherry , it produces two distinct green leaves in its centre , and never bears any fruit at all . In the pear , represented in pl . 1 , fig . 4 , the stalk which has ...
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95 ページ - Genuine and innocent wit like this, is surely the flavour of the mind! Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food ; but God has given us wit, and flavour, and brightness, and laughter, and perfumes, to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to " charm his pained steps over the burning marie.
105 ページ - Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar...
168 ページ - The situation in which these weapons were found may tempt us to refer them to a very remote period indeed ; even beyond that of the present world...
84 ページ - Under changed conditions of life, it is at least possible that slight modifications of instinct might be profitable to a species; and if it can be shown that instincts do vary ever so little, then I can see no difficulty in natural selection preserving and continually accumulating variations of instinct to any extent that was profitable. It is thus, as I believe, that all the most complex and wonderful instincts have originated.
82 ページ - I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype.
171 ページ - At the first the piles which bear np the platforms were fixed in their places by the whole body of the citizens, but since that time the custom which has prevailed about fixing them is this:^ They are brought from a hill called Orbelus, and every man drives in three for each wife that he marries. Now the men have all many wives apiece, and this is the way in which they live. Each has his own hut, wherein he dwells, upon one of the...
82 ページ - Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth, have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.
167 ページ - Somme, in an area fifteen miles in length. I infer that a tribe of savages, to whom the use of iron was unknown, made a long sojourn in this region ; and I am reminded of a large Indian mound, which I saw in St. Simond's...
121 ページ - Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished! Reply, reply. It is engendered in the eyes. With gazing fed ; and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies. Let us all ring fancy's knell : I'll begin it, — Ding, dong, bell.
229 ページ - ... without an aim. I myself am one of these images ; nay, I am not even thus much, but only a confused image of images.