The Edinburgh Review, Volume 111A. and C. Black, 1860 - English literature |
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... Living , on Health and Longevity ; with Suggestions for the Removal of many of the Agents which produce Disease and shorten the Duration of Life . By C. Turner Thakrah , Esq . London : 1832 . 2. Contributions to Vital Statistics , being ...
... Living , on Health and Longevity ; with Suggestions for the Removal of many of the Agents which produce Disease and shorten the Duration of Life . By C. Turner Thakrah , Esq . London : 1832 . 2. Contributions to Vital Statistics , being ...
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... Living , on Health and Longevity ; with Suggestions for the Removal of many of the Agents which produce Disease and shorten the Duration of Life . By C. TURNER THAKRAH , Esq . London : 1832 . 2. Contributions to Vital Statistics , being ...
... Living , on Health and Longevity ; with Suggestions for the Removal of many of the Agents which produce Disease and shorten the Duration of Life . By C. TURNER THAKRAH , Esq . London : 1832 . 2. Contributions to Vital Statistics , being ...
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... living : ' the same spirit rejected Mr. Abraham's mask of magnetised wire , invented many years ago for the same object . There can be no doubt , however , that in- telligence should rule in this matter , and that the Legislature should ...
... living : ' the same spirit rejected Mr. Abraham's mask of magnetised wire , invented many years ago for the same object . There can be no doubt , however , that in- telligence should rule in this matter , and that the Legislature should ...
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... living monkeys as an inverted coffee cup held over and around the flame of a candle is an extinguisher of the candle . Not only the warmth of the fires and the warm air that was allowed to enter by the openings in the floor , but the ...
... living monkeys as an inverted coffee cup held over and around the flame of a candle is an extinguisher of the candle . Not only the warmth of the fires and the warm air that was allowed to enter by the openings in the floor , but the ...
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... living at least six years longer than the coachman , the watchman , and others who are equally exposed to the weather , but whose blood is not equally circulated or sweetened by con- tinual and active exertion . It will be remarked also ...
... living at least six years longer than the coachman , the watchman , and others who are equally exposed to the weather , but whose blood is not equally circulated or sweetened by con- tinual and active exertion . It will be remarked also ...
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Page 504 - Let it be borne in mind how infinitely complex and close-fitting are the mutual relations of all organic beings to each other and to their physical conditions of life. Can it, then, be thought improbable, seeing that variations useful to man have undoubtedly occurred, that other variations useful in some way to each being in the great...
Page 339 - What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread; Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
Page 68 - The Geology of Pennsylvania. A Government Survey, with a General View of the Geology of the United States, essays on the Coal Formation and its Fossils, and a description of the Coal Fields of North America and Great Britain. Illustrated with plates and engravings in the text. 3 vols. 4to, cloth, with portfolio of maps i5 oo ROSE (JOSHUA, ME ) The Pattern-makers
Page 517 - In North America the black bear was seen by Hearne swimming for hours with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water.
Page 161 - By art likewise we make them greater or taller than their kind is, and contrariwise dwarf them and stay their growth; we make them more fruitful and bearing than their kind is, and contrariwise barren and not generative.
Page 495 - I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection, in order to mark its relation to man's power of selection.
Page 506 - ... let these same changes cause the number of rabbits very slowly to decrease, and the number of hares to increase; the effect of this would be that the fox or dog would be driven to try...
Page 161 - ... may take light what may be wrought upon the body of man. Wherein we find many strange effects: as continuing life in them, though divers parts, which you account vital, be perished and taken forth; resuscitating of some that seem dead in appearance, and the like. We try also all poisons, and other medicines upon them, as well of chirurgery as physic.
Page 376 - Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations ; they call their lands after their own names.
Page 504 - In the case of the mistletoe, which draws its nourishment from certain trees, which has seeds that must be transported by certain birds, and which has flowers with separate sexes absolutely requiring the agency of certain insects to bring pollen from one flower to...