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Pagina 6
... greater and more rapid , and exhibit a wider difference between those found above and below the chalk than is observable in the case of molluscs . For fuller particulars on this head we refer our readers to the paper “ On recent ...
... greater and more rapid , and exhibit a wider difference between those found above and below the chalk than is observable in the case of molluscs . For fuller particulars on this head we refer our readers to the paper “ On recent ...
Pagina 25
... greater part had arrived at the imago state some time after the process of embalming was completed . The head was not always filled with linen , for Mr. P. found in another specimen a large quantity of bituminous matter , and the same ...
... greater part had arrived at the imago state some time after the process of embalming was completed . The head was not always filled with linen , for Mr. P. found in another specimen a large quantity of bituminous matter , and the same ...
Pagina 58
... greater extent in the present article . We have been kindly favoured with a copy of the Bulletin of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Brussels , containing the detailed proceedings of the public Séance of Dec. 16th , 1835 ; and shall ...
... greater extent in the present article . We have been kindly favoured with a copy of the Bulletin of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Brussels , containing the detailed proceedings of the public Séance of Dec. 16th , 1835 ; and shall ...
Pagina 59
... greater part of the props of the ancient social edifice , and renewed the political constitution of many states , also changed our destinies . " 6 The Academy of Brussels was suppressed ; its members were dispersed ; and when , at a ...
... greater part of the props of the ancient social edifice , and renewed the political constitution of many states , also changed our destinies . " 6 The Academy of Brussels was suppressed ; its members were dispersed ; and when , at a ...
Pagina 61
... greater ardour the novel and brilliant discoveries of the physical sciences ; nor were they rendered less useful by the applica- bility of their knowledge to the study of our own country , with which they were occupied with the greatest ...
... greater ardour the novel and brilliant discoveries of the physical sciences ; nor were they rendered less useful by the applica- bility of their knowledge to the study of our own country , with which they were occupied with the greatest ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 82 - The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
Pagina 484 - And, lastly, We do hereby, for Us, our heirs and successors, grant and declare that these our Letters Patent, or the enrolment or exemplification thereof, shall be in and by all things valid and effectual in the law, according to the true intent and meaning of the same, and shall be...
Pagina 13 - Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end
Pagina 275 - I do not now maintain, I think it right, as one of my last acts before I quit this Chair, thus publicly to read my recantation. We ought, indeed, to have paused before we first adopted the diluvian theory, and referred all our old superficial gravel to the action of the Mosaic flood.
Pagina 275 - Our errors were, however, natural, and of the same kind which led many excellent observers of a former century to refer all the secondary formations of geology to the Noachian deluge.
Pagina 484 - AND LASTLY, WE do hereby, for Us, our Heirs, and Successors, grant and declare, That these our Letters Patent, or the enrolment or exemplification thereof, shall be in and...
Pagina 328 - ... have so far affected the rays of Light, that a corresponding difference from the eyes of existing Crustaceans would have been found in the organs on which the impressions of such rays were then received. Regarding Light itself also, we learn from the resemblance of these most ancient...
Pagina 484 - ... proficiency in that department of knowledge in which he is about to graduate ; and he shall receive from the said Chancellor a certificate, under the seal of the said University of Bombay, and signed by the said Chancellor or ViceChancellor, in which the particulars so stated shall be declared.
Pagina 275 - We ought, indeed, to have paused, before we first adopted the diluvial theory, and referred all our old superficial gravel to the action of the Mosaic Flood. For of man, and the works of his hands, we have not yet found a single trace among the remnants of a former world entombed in these ancient deposits.
Pagina 81 - ... an education in which the individual is cultivated, not as an instrument towards some ulterior end, but as an end unto himself alone ; in other words, an education, in which his absolute perfection as a man, and not merely his relative dexterity as a professional man, is the scope immediately in view.