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الصفحة vii
... appears to me to be a reductio ad absurdum of his argument . The Thirdly , the essay " On the Physical Basis of Life " was intended to contain a plain and untechnical statement of one of the great tendencies of modern biological thought ...
... appears to me to be a reductio ad absurdum of his argument . The Thirdly , the essay " On the Physical Basis of Life " was intended to contain a plain and untechnical statement of one of the great tendencies of modern biological thought ...
الصفحة 102
... appears to me , that , as with other sciences , the common facts of Biology - the uses of parts of the body — the names and habits of the living creatures which surround us - may be taught with advantage to the youngest child . Indeed ...
... appears to me , that , as with other sciences , the common facts of Biology - the uses of parts of the body — the names and habits of the living creatures which surround us - may be taught with advantage to the youngest child . Indeed ...
الصفحة 107
... appears to be the most striking character it presents ? Why , I observe that this part which we call the tail of the lobster , is made up of six distinct hard rings and a seventh terminal piece . If I separate one of the middle rings ...
... appears to be the most striking character it presents ? Why , I observe that this part which we call the tail of the lobster , is made up of six distinct hard rings and a seventh terminal piece . If I separate one of the middle rings ...
الصفحة 108
... appears that the lobster's tail is composed of a series of segments which are fundamentally similar , though each presents peculiar modifications of the plan common to all . But when I turn to the fore part of the body I see , at first ...
... appears that the lobster's tail is composed of a series of segments which are fundamentally similar , though each presents peculiar modifications of the plan common to all . But when I turn to the fore part of the body I see , at first ...
الصفحة 110
... appears again and the outer vanishes ; while , on the other hand , in the foremost jaw , the so - called mandible , the inner division only is left ; and , in the same way , the parts of the feelers and of the eye - stalks can be ...
... appears again and the outer vanishes ; while , on the other hand , in the foremost jaw , the so - called mandible , the inner division only is left ; and , in the same way , the parts of the feelers and of the eye - stalks can be ...
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الصفحة 29 - BACON'S ESSAYS AND COLOURS OF GOOD AND EVIL. With Notes and Glossarial Index. By W. ALDIS WRIGHT, MA THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS from this World to that which is to come.
الصفحة 13 - As when in heaven the stars about the moon Look beautiful, when all the winds are laid, And every height comes out, and jutting peak And valley, and the immeasurable heavens Break open to their highest, and all the stars Shine, and the Shepherd gladdens in his heart...
الصفحة 19 - THE PRINCE'S PROGRESS, AND OTHER POEMS. With two Designs by DG ROSSETTI. Fcap. 8vo. 6s. " Miss Rossetti' 's poems are of the kind which recalls Shelley's definition of Poetry as the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds.
الصفحة 37 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of...
الصفحة 38 - Such an one and no other, I conceive, has had a liberal education; for he is, as completely as a man can be, in harmony with nature. He will make the best of her, and she of him. They will get on together rarely; she as his ever beneficent mother; he as her mouthpiece, her conscious self, her minister and interpreter.
الصفحة 154 - In itself it is of little moment whether we express the phenomena of matter in terms of spirit, or the phenomena of spirit in terms of matter; matter may be regarded as a form of thought, thought may be regarded as a property of matter ; each statement has a certain relative truth. But with a view to the progress of science the materialistic terminology is in every way to be preferred...
الصفحة 8 - Wilson. — A MEMOIR OF GEORGE WILSON, MD, FRSE, Regius Professor of Technology in the University of Edinburgh. By his SISTER. New Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s.
الصفحة 30 - The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Edited from the Original Edition by JW CLARK, MA Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
الصفحة 28 - Messrs. Macmillan have, in their Golden Treasury Series, especially provided editions of standard works, volumes of selected poetry, and original compositions, which entitle this series to be called classical. Nothing can be better than the literary execution, nothing more elegant than the material workmanship"—BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW.
الصفحة 375 - PREFACE. French (George Russell). — SHAKSPEAREANA GENEALOGICA. 8vo. cloth extra, 15^. Uniform with the "Cambridge Shakespeare." Part I. — Identification of the dramatis personse in the historical plays, from King John to King Henry VIII. ; Notes on Characters in Macbeth and Hamlet ; Persons and Places belonging to Warwickshire alluded to. Part II. — The Shakspeare and Arden families and their connexions, with Tables of descent. The present is the first attempt to give a detailed description,...