Proceedings of the Literary & Philosophical Society of Liverpool, 第 14~15 巻The Society, 1860 |
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... true cleavage , which would represent the effect of crystalisation . This was proved by the experiments made by Professors Tyndal and Huxley , in their endeavours to ascertain the cause of the curious ribbon lines in glaciers . They ...
... true cleavage , which would represent the effect of crystalisation . This was proved by the experiments made by Professors Tyndal and Huxley , in their endeavours to ascertain the cause of the curious ribbon lines in glaciers . They ...
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... True it is , that even here science can to some extent control the march of death , and bridle seemingly the irresistible career of the invisible Azrael . But it could not do so unless the constitution of man was so framed , as to be ...
... True it is , that even here science can to some extent control the march of death , and bridle seemingly the irresistible career of the invisible Azrael . But it could not do so unless the constitution of man was so framed , as to be ...
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... true , " that what is one man's meat is another man's poison , " and that one individual can exist and be in health , in an atmosphere which would kill another . This immunity is brought about by a gradual change of circumstances , and ...
... true , " that what is one man's meat is another man's poison , " and that one individual can exist and be in health , in an atmosphere which would kill another . This immunity is brought about by a gradual change of circumstances , and ...
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... true in the main , it is always with some degree of reluctance ; for it is said , with truth , " a flower is a flower , as much as a leaf is a leaf ; and what right have we to call the flower a modified leaf , any more than the leaf a ...
... true in the main , it is always with some degree of reluctance ; for it is said , with truth , " a flower is a flower , as much as a leaf is a leaf ; and what right have we to call the flower a modified leaf , any more than the leaf a ...
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... true type of the plant must be sought for in the simplest perfect organ , rather than in one so complicated in its structure as a leaf is in its ordinary acceptation . The progress of investigation , both in animal and vegetable phy ...
... true type of the plant must be sought for in the simplest perfect organ , rather than in one so complicated in its structure as a leaf is in its ordinary acceptation . The progress of investigation , both in animal and vegetable phy ...
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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.