The Quarterly Review, Volume 50William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1834 |
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... carry with them a force of conviction as strong as any de- monstration in mathematics - and stronger than most of the evi- dence upon which the history of human transactions is founded . The stamp of mortality , the finger of death ...
... carry with them a force of conviction as strong as any de- monstration in mathematics - and stronger than most of the evi- dence upon which the history of human transactions is founded . The stamp of mortality , the finger of death ...
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... carried to its close . We know it will be said , that these , after all , are but the re- cords of astronomy , a science which deals with objects that can- not be subjected to the touch , or compelled to go through the ordeal of ...
... carried to its close . We know it will be said , that these , after all , are but the re- cords of astronomy , a science which deals with objects that can- not be subjected to the touch , or compelled to go through the ordeal of ...
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... fringed with feelers , which it throws out and retracts with a rapidity that at the angles gives the appearance of circular motion . the the Brachionus Bakiri ; the females carry their eggs in 14 The Bridgewater Treatises .
... fringed with feelers , which it throws out and retracts with a rapidity that at the angles gives the appearance of circular motion . the the Brachionus Bakiri ; the females carry their eggs in 14 The Bridgewater Treatises .
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... carry their eggs in the same way its shell has six teeth . ' If a portion of water not so large as a drop be thus peopled with a countless host of animalcules of various races , would it not be unphilosophical in the extreme to suppose ...
... carry their eggs in the same way its shell has six teeth . ' If a portion of water not so large as a drop be thus peopled with a countless host of animalcules of various races , would it not be unphilosophical in the extreme to suppose ...
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... carry on their operations . So completely is the ground impregnated with seeds , that if earth is brought to the surface , from the lowest depth at which it is found , some vegetable matter will spring from it . In boring for water ...
... carry on their operations . So completely is the ground impregnated with seeds , that if earth is brought to the surface , from the lowest depth at which it is found , some vegetable matter will spring from it . In boring for water ...
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