The Edinburgh Review, Volume 111A. and C. Black, 1860 - English literature |
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... true , suffers from fever a ratio of 35 per cent . , and the brick - maker 21 per cent . , the scavenger experiences only 8 per cent . of illness from the same cause . This result does seem astonishing when we remember that sani ...
... true , suffers from fever a ratio of 35 per cent . , and the brick - maker 21 per cent . , the scavenger experiences only 8 per cent . of illness from the same cause . This result does seem astonishing when we remember that sani ...
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... true , all scrofulous persons should be warned from the employ- ment as dangerous , and in all cases employers should adopt every precaution in their power to prevent the recurrence of such mischief to the employed . Mr. Stanley says ...
... true , all scrofulous persons should be warned from the employ- ment as dangerous , and in all cases employers should adopt every precaution in their power to prevent the recurrence of such mischief to the employed . Mr. Stanley says ...
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... true , but they lose by a neck . The clergyman , as we should naturally suppose , enjoys a higher standard of health , and attains a greater age , than any member of the community , excepting poor Hodge , the humblest member of his ...
... true , but they lose by a neck . The clergyman , as we should naturally suppose , enjoys a higher standard of health , and attains a greater age , than any member of the community , excepting poor Hodge , the humblest member of his ...
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... true : others are found to have arisen from a misconception , natural and pardonable enough , on the part either of Herodotus himself or his informants . The case has been very much the same with him as with the great Venetian traveller ...
... true : others are found to have arisen from a misconception , natural and pardonable enough , on the part either of Herodotus himself or his informants . The case has been very much the same with him as with the great Venetian traveller ...
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... true . Even the names of the conspirators ( with one single exception ) are correctly given by our historian . On the other hand , they are almost all given wrong by Ctesias ; a conclusive proof of the carelessness and inaccuracy of ...
... true . Even the names of the conspirators ( with one single exception ) are correctly given by our historian . On the other hand , they are almost all given wrong by Ctesias ; a conclusive proof of the carelessness and inaccuracy of ...
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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...