The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen65A. Constable, 1837 |
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... important fact , that we find a starting point , on this side of which all forms , both of animal and vegetable beings , must have had a beginning . ' As in the consideration of other strata we find abundant evidence in the presence of ...
... important fact , that we find a starting point , on this side of which all forms , both of animal and vegetable beings , must have had a beginning . ' As in the consideration of other strata we find abundant evidence in the presence of ...
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... importance among the sources of benefit to mankind ; and this benefit is the direct result of physical changes which ... important uses of coal and iron , in administering to the supply of our daily wants , give to every individual ...
... importance among the sources of benefit to mankind ; and this benefit is the direct result of physical changes which ... important uses of coal and iron , in administering to the supply of our daily wants , give to every individual ...
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... important office of producing food . Hence it happens , that the great corn fields , and the greatest population of the world , are placed on strata of the secondary and tertiary forma- tions , or on their detritus , composing still ...
... important office of producing food . Hence it happens , that the great corn fields , and the greatest population of the world , are placed on strata of the secondary and tertiary forma- tions , or on their detritus , composing still ...
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... important and popular branch of his subject , -- to give a description of the most interesting fossil organic remains , and to show that the extinct species of plants and animals which formerly occupied our planet , display , even in ...
... important and popular branch of his subject , -- to give a description of the most interesting fossil organic remains , and to show that the extinct species of plants and animals which formerly occupied our planet , display , even in ...
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... important part of this land lizard yet found , is a frag- ment of the lower jaw , containing many teeth , whose mechanism combines the properties of the knife , the sabre , and the saw . The genus Iguanodon , or the gigantic terrestrial ...
... important part of this land lizard yet found , is a frag- ment of the lower jaw , containing many teeth , whose mechanism combines the properties of the knife , the sabre , and the saw . The genus Iguanodon , or the gigantic terrestrial ...
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Página 363 - Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
Página 363 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Página 344 - It has lengthened life ; it has mitigated pain ; it has extinguished diseases ; it has increased the fertility of the soil ; it has given new securities to the mariner ; it has furnished new arms to the warrior ; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth...
Página 363 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Página 278 - His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Página 363 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Página 466 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Página 325 - My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place, or honours : but I have and do reverence him, for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed, that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want.
Página 343 - But it is possible to make laws which shall, to a very great extent, secure property. And we do not understand how any motives which the ancient philosophy furnished could extinguish cupidity. We know indeed that the philosophers were no better than other men. From the testimony of friends as well as of foes, from the confessions of Epictetus and Seneca, as well as from the sneers of Lucian and the fierce invectives of Juvenal, it is plain that these teachers of virtue had all the vices of their...
Página 343 - An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. The smallest actual good is better than the most magnificent promises of impossibilities. The wise man of the Stoics would, no doubt, be a grander object than a steam-engine. But there are steamengines. And the wise man of the Stoics is yet to be born.