The Quarterly Review, Volume 244John Murray, 1925 |
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... effect , " no man who has been rejected by one lady ( A ) should make a proposal to any other lady ( B ) in less than one full year after the rejection . If he does make the second proposal sooner , he will certainly propose to B either ...
... effect , " no man who has been rejected by one lady ( A ) should make a proposal to any other lady ( B ) in less than one full year after the rejection . If he does make the second proposal sooner , he will certainly propose to B either ...
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... effect has been well described as a ' mosaic of legislation . ' More than one judge has confessed his despair of finding any consistent intelligible meaning in them . The house- owner himself cannot hope to understand their effect : he ...
... effect has been well described as a ' mosaic of legislation . ' More than one judge has confessed his despair of finding any consistent intelligible meaning in them . The house- owner himself cannot hope to understand their effect : he ...
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... effects of departmental - judicial jurisdiction will find a typical and , many will think , a startling example in the powers exercised by the Minister of Health under the National Insurance Act , 1911 , in regard to removing the names ...
... effects of departmental - judicial jurisdiction will find a typical and , many will think , a startling example in the powers exercised by the Minister of Health under the National Insurance Act , 1911 , in regard to removing the names ...
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... effect on the attacking organism or the prey . The whole of the sea - anemone and jellyfish group possess similar but more elaborate stinging hairs which cause very great trouble to those intrepid people who insist on trying to swim ...
... effect on the attacking organism or the prey . The whole of the sea - anemone and jellyfish group possess similar but more elaborate stinging hairs which cause very great trouble to those intrepid people who insist on trying to swim ...
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... effect on the prey varies according to what kind of animal is bitten and also on what kind of poison is injected . ( 1 ) The dominant toxin of the poisons of members of the family Colubrida - which includes the extremely venomous sea ...
... effect on the prey varies according to what kind of animal is bitten and also on what kind of poison is injected . ( 1 ) The dominant toxin of the poisons of members of the family Colubrida - which includes the extremely venomous sea ...
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Page 212 - This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit, full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions: these are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater; and deliver'd upon the mellowing of occasion: But the gift is good in those in whom it is acute, and I am thankful for it.
Page 295 - Sense of past Youth, and Manhood come in vain. And Genius given, and Knowledge won in vain; And all which I had culled in wood-walks wild, And all which patient toil had reared, and all, Commune with thee had opened out — but flowers Strewed on my corse, and borne upon my bier In the same coffin, for the self-same grave!
Page 288 - This lime-tree bower my prison! I have lost Beauties and feelings, such as would have been Most sweet to my remembrance even when age Had dimmed mine eyes to blindness! They, meanwhile, Friends, whom I never more may meet again, On springy heath, along the hill-top edge...
Page 289 - Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, Whether the summer clothe the general earth With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch Of mossy apple-tree...
Page 295 - Thou in bewitching words, with happy heart, Didst chaunt the vision of that Ancient Man, The bright-eyed Mariner, and rueful woes Didst utter of the Lady Christabel...
Page 289 - mid cloisters dim, And saw nought lovely but the sky and stars. But thou, my babe ! shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds, Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores And mountain crags...
Page 291 - Returning that same evening, I got into a metaphysical argument with Wordsworth, while Coleridge was explaining the different notes of the nightingale to his sister, in which we neither of us succeeded in making ourselves perfectly clear and intelligible.
Page 59 - There is no exception to the rule that every organic being naturally increases at so high a rate that, if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair.
Page 286 - O the one life within us and abroad, Which meets all motion and becomes its soul, A light in sound, a sound-like power in light Rhythm in all thought, and joyance...
Page 286 - And what if all of animated nature Be but organic Harps diversely fram'd. That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze. At once the Soul of each, and God of all?