The Edinburgh Review, Том 111A. and C. Black, 1860 |
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... volume on Vital Statistics , gives the following highly interesting table : - Age . EXPECTATION OF LIFE IN In - door occupation , with Out - door occupation , with Little Exercise . Great Exercise . Little Exercise . Great Exercise . 20 ...
... volume on Vital Statistics , gives the following highly interesting table : - Age . EXPECTATION OF LIFE IN In - door occupation , with Out - door occupation , with Little Exercise . Great Exercise . Little Exercise . Great Exercise . 20 ...
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... volume to the illustration of these topics . The long appendices upon Babylonian and Assyrian history and mythology which occupy so large a portion of that volume may seem out of proportion with the place which they assume in the work ...
... volume to the illustration of these topics . The long appendices upon Babylonian and Assyrian history and mythology which occupy so large a portion of that volume may seem out of proportion with the place which they assume in the work ...
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... volumes . The history of Coal affects , in the highest degree , the entire social condition . of our species ; and we propose to consider it in the following pages , not so much with reference to its geological characteristics , as in ...
... volumes . The history of Coal affects , in the highest degree , the entire social condition . of our species ; and we propose to consider it in the following pages , not so much with reference to its geological characteristics , as in ...
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... volume of hydrographic charts , displaying , for a long succession of epochs , the ever - changing relations of the land and waters . Whatever may be the fate of these theories , we have results in the position , form , arrangement ...
... volume of hydrographic charts , displaying , for a long succession of epochs , the ever - changing relations of the land and waters . Whatever may be the fate of these theories , we have results in the position , form , arrangement ...
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... volume entitled ' The Statistics of Coal , ' which we reviewed in the XCth volume of this journal , page 525 , and we refer our readers to that article for an abridgment of Mr. Taylor's interesting calculations and diagrams . The first ...
... volume entitled ' The Statistics of Coal , ' which we reviewed in the XCth volume of this journal , page 525 , and we refer our readers to that article for an abridgment of Mr. Taylor's interesting calculations and diagrams . The first ...
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Стр. 504 - Let it be borne in mind how infinitely complex and close-fitting are the mutual relations of all organic beings to each other and to their physical conditions of life. Can it, then, be thought improbable, seeing that variations useful to man have undoubtedly occurred, that other variations useful in some way to each being in the great...
Стр. 339 - What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread; Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
Стр. 68 - The Geology of Pennsylvania. A Government Survey, with a General View of the Geology of the United States, essays on the Coal Formation and its Fossils, and a description of the Coal Fields of North America and Great Britain. Illustrated with plates and engravings in the text. 3 vols. 4to, cloth, with portfolio of maps i5 oo ROSE (JOSHUA, ME ) The Pattern-makers
Стр. 517 - In North America the black bear was seen by Hearne swimming for hours with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water.
Стр. 161 - By art likewise we make them greater or taller than their kind is, and contrariwise dwarf them and stay their growth; we make them more fruitful and bearing than their kind is, and contrariwise barren and not generative.
Стр. 495 - I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection, in order to mark its relation to man's power of selection.
Стр. 506 - ... let these same changes cause the number of rabbits very slowly to decrease, and the number of hares to increase; the effect of this would be that the fox or dog would be driven to try...
Стр. 161 - ... may take light what may be wrought upon the body of man. Wherein we find many strange effects: as continuing life in them, though divers parts, which you account vital, be perished and taken forth; resuscitating of some that seem dead in appearance, and the like. We try also all poisons, and other medicines upon them, as well of chirurgery as physic.
Стр. 376 - Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations ; they call their lands after their own names.
Стр. 504 - In the case of the mistletoe, which draws its nourishment from certain trees, which has seeds that must be transported by certain birds, and which has flowers with separate sexes absolutely requiring the agency of certain insects to bring pollen from one flower to...