The Edinburgh Review, Volume 111A. and C. Black, 1860 |
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... Assyria , and Babylonia . To embody ' the chief results , historical and ethnographical , which have ' been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical ' discovery , ' is one of the professed objects of Mr. Rawlinson's work ...
... Assyria , and Babylonia . To embody ' the chief results , historical and ethnographical , which have ' been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical ' discovery , ' is one of the professed objects of Mr. Rawlinson's work ...
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... Assyrian and Babylonian inscrip- tions . Almost simultaneously with the discovery of the clue to the Persian characters , and before the results had been fully given to the world , the excavations of M. Botta at Khorsabad , and of Mr ...
... Assyrian and Babylonian inscrip- tions . Almost simultaneously with the discovery of the clue to the Persian characters , and before the results had been fully given to the world , the excavations of M. Botta at Khorsabad , and of Mr ...
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... Assyrian and Chaldæan monarchies found in the Old Testament notices of which the historical accuracy has received a striking confirma- tion from the discoveries on the monuments . The result is unquestionable , that , although our ...
... Assyrian and Chaldæan monarchies found in the Old Testament notices of which the historical accuracy has received a striking confirma- tion from the discoveries on the monuments . The result is unquestionable , that , although our ...
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... Assyrian characters . Would that some such bilingual monument had been preserved to our own days ! But though we have not been favoured with the preservation of any such convenient key to the cuneiform inscriptions , yet we possess ...
... Assyrian characters . Would that some such bilingual monument had been preserved to our own days ! But though we have not been favoured with the preservation of any such convenient key to the cuneiform inscriptions , yet we possess ...
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... occupied in suppressing a series of insurrections in the different provinces of his empire , where the Medes , the Babylonians , the Susians , the Assyrians , and even the Persians themselves 1860 . 43 Rawlinson's Herodotus .
... occupied in suppressing a series of insurrections in the different provinces of his empire , where the Medes , the Babylonians , the Susians , the Assyrians , and even the Persians themselves 1860 . 43 Rawlinson's Herodotus .
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Página 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...
Página 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.
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...