The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 45William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1882 |
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... kind , it could be packed nowhere , but had to travel , on the seat beside them , like a third passenger . It was labelled , " A trifle from Wallington " ( as if it had been a sixpenny mug ) , and was supposed ( and rightly ) to have ...
... kind , it could be packed nowhere , but had to travel , on the seat beside them , like a third passenger . It was labelled , " A trifle from Wallington " ( as if it had been a sixpenny mug ) , and was supposed ( and rightly ) to have ...
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... kind only on a single day , though they may vary a little from kind to kind as the season advances , and one species replaces another . Müller , the most statistical of naturalists , has noticed that while bees form seventy - five per ...
... kind only on a single day , though they may vary a little from kind to kind as the season advances , and one species replaces another . Müller , the most statistical of naturalists , has noticed that while bees form seventy - five per ...
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... kind as that so often found in leaves . The facts seem to indicate that these various substances may be due to an alteration of the normal constituents of leaves . So far as I have been able to ascertain , their development seems as if ...
... kind as that so often found in leaves . The facts seem to indicate that these various substances may be due to an alteration of the normal constituents of leaves . So far as I have been able to ascertain , their development seems as if ...
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... kind , has highly - modified flowers , with a tube below and spreading lobes above ; in addition to which most of the species possess remarkable and strongly - developed appendages to the corolla , in the way of teeth , crowns , hairs ...
... kind , has highly - modified flowers , with a tube below and spreading lobes above ; in addition to which most of the species possess remarkable and strongly - developed appendages to the corolla , in the way of teeth , crowns , hairs ...
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... kind as to say that she would take an early oppor- tunity of showing it to him and telling him that I had supposed it to be his portrait . However , when he did come , he turned out , like so many things that one has looked forward to ...
... kind as to say that she would take an early oppor- tunity of showing it to him and telling him that I had supposed it to be his portrait . However , when he did come , he turned out , like so many things that one has looked forward to ...
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Página 107 - I can give not what men call love, But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And the Heavens reject not, The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow...
Página 116 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are ; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear...
Página 114 - Sir, you have no reason to be afraid of me. The Irish are not in a conspiracy to cheat the world by false representations of the merits of their countrymen. No, Sir; the Irish are a FAIR PEOPLE ; — they never speak well of one another.
Página 259 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Página 240 - But let me scrape the dirt away That hangs upon your face; And stop and eat, for well you may Be in a hungry case.
Página 282 - It may come one day to be recognized, that the number of the legs, the villosity of the skin, or the termination of the os sacrum, are reasons equally insufficient for abandoning a sensitive being to the same fate.
Página 282 - The day may come, when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. The French have already discovered that the blackness of the skin is no reason why a human being should be abandoned without redress to the caprice of a tormentor. It may...
Página 43 - in the sense of the bright ones," had been applied by the Vedic poets to the stars in general, and more particularly to that constellation which in the northern parts of India was the most prominent. The etymological meaning, "the bright stars," was forgotten; the popular meaning of Riksha (bear) was known to every one.
Página 283 - ... of consciousness or volition, or even contrary to the latter. As actions of a certain degree of complexity are brought about by mere mechanism, why may not actions of still greater complexity be the result of a more refined mechanism? What proof is there that brutes are other than a superior race of marionettes, which eat without pleasure, cry without pain, desire nothing, know nothing, and only simulate intelligence as a bee simulates a mathematician?
Página 487 - The announcement of the comet of 1832 may produce similar effects, unless the authority of the Academy apply a prompt remedy ; and this salutary intervention is at this moment implored by many benevolent persons.