The Canadian Journal of Science, Literature and History, Volume 12Canadian Institute., 1870 |
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Pagina 29
... knowledge for the arrangement of Gasteropod Mollusks , and how far we can determine their comparative importance . One of the most obvious characters is derived from the shell itself , its presence or absence , its form , its sub ...
... knowledge for the arrangement of Gasteropod Mollusks , and how far we can determine their comparative importance . One of the most obvious characters is derived from the shell itself , its presence or absence , its form , its sub ...
Pagina 30
... knowledge does not enable us to connect them with any structural peculiarity or special habit of the animal . Monoceros is scarcely now admitted as a genus , and its supposed species hardly even all belong to the same genus . Curious ...
... knowledge does not enable us to connect them with any structural peculiarity or special habit of the animal . Monoceros is scarcely now admitted as a genus , and its supposed species hardly even all belong to the same genus . Curious ...
Pagina 32
... knowledge on the subject has rapidly increased would no longer be thought of . Greater characters taken from the brain and the absence of placentation , separate the Opossums from the Carnivora , but their dentition establishes an ...
... knowledge on the subject has rapidly increased would no longer be thought of . Greater characters taken from the brain and the absence of placentation , separate the Opossums from the Carnivora , but their dentition establishes an ...
Pagina 33
... knowledge of the animal , the operculum and the odontophore must always be united with that of the shell before we can be satisfied as to its systematic relations in a natural arrangement . This last principle is not always convenient ...
... knowledge of the animal , the operculum and the odontophore must always be united with that of the shell before we can be satisfied as to its systematic relations in a natural arrangement . This last principle is not always convenient ...
Pagina 57
... knowledge of a nonego or matter as existing in space . That we possess such an immediate knowledge , he maintains , is the natural or unbiassed testi- mony of human consciousness ; and accordingly he names his own system Natural Realism ...
... knowledge of a nonego or matter as existing in space . That we possess such an immediate knowledge , he maintains , is the natural or unbiassed testi- mony of human consciousness ; and accordingly he names his own system Natural Realism ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 229 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Pagina 319 - Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Pagina 397 - There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts. " Not such as Europe breeds in her decay ; Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. " Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Pagina 73 - Self is that conscious thinking thing (whatever substance made up of, whether spiritual or material, simple or compounded, it matters not) which is sensible or conscious of pleasure and pain, capable of happiness or misery, and so is concerned for itself, as far as that consciousness extends.
Pagina 83 - If. therefore, we speak of the mind as a series of feelings, we are obliged to complete the statement by calling it a series of feelings which is aware of itself as past and future...
Pagina 492 - Muses' anvil, turn the same (And himself with it) that he thinks to frame, Or for the laurel he may gain a scorn, For a good poet's made as well as born; And such wert thou. Look how the father's face Lives in his issue; even so, the race Of Shakespeare's mind and manners brightly shines In his well-turned and true-filed lines, In each of which he seems to shake a lance, As brandished at the eyes of ignorance.
Pagina 379 - Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton ; and the peculiar happiness of my life will ever consist in promoting the welfare of a people, whose loyalty and warm affection to me I consider as the greatest and most permanent security of my throne...
Pagina 397 - He hath seduced several of the hopefullest young clergymen and others here, many of them well provided for, and all of them in the fairest way of preferment ; but in England his conquests are greater, and I doubt will spread very far this winter.
Pagina 58 - I do not pretend to be a setter-up of new notions. My endeavours tend only to unite and place in a clearer light that truth, which was before shared between the vulgar and the philosophers...
Pagina 405 - The king to Oxford sent his troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal care to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument.