The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 45William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1882 |
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... petals . All this , as I say , we have each of us heard long ago . So the specific question which I wish to attack to - day is not why the harebell is coloured , but why it is coloured blue . And , in getting at the answer to this one ...
... petals . All this , as I say , we have each of us heard long ago . So the specific question which I wish to attack to - day is not why the harebell is coloured , but why it is coloured blue . And , in getting at the answer to this one ...
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... petals may be blue , red , pink , orange , lilac , or even green . But as the central organs are com- paratively small , whereas the petals are large and conspicuous , we naturally speak of flowers in everyday talk as having the colour ...
... petals may be blue , red , pink , orange , lilac , or even green . But as the central organs are com- paratively small , whereas the petals are large and conspicuous , we naturally speak of flowers in everyday talk as having the colour ...
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William Makepeace Thackeray. the original colour of all petals . * But as I am personally somewhat here- tical in believing , contrary to the general run of existing scientific opinion , that petals are derived from flattened stamens ...
William Makepeace Thackeray. the original colour of all petals . * But as I am personally somewhat here- tical in believing , contrary to the general run of existing scientific opinion , that petals are derived from flattened stamens ...
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... petals at all , and the petals of modern flowers have been produced at some later period . I believe , also , they have been produced by a modification of certain external stamens , not by a modification of true leaves . Instead of ...
... petals at all , and the petals of modern flowers have been produced at some later period . I believe , also , they have been produced by a modification of certain external stamens , not by a modification of true leaves . Instead of ...
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... petals they are sterilised stamens , set apart for the special function of attracting insects on behalf of the entire flower . But to ask which came first , the petals or the stamens , is as absurd as to ask which came first , the male ...
... petals they are sterilised stamens , set apart for the special function of attracting insects on behalf of the entire flower . But to ask which came first , the petals or the stamens , is as absurd as to ask which came first , the male ...
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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...
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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?
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