The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and Instructive Articles on Scientific Subjects, Volumen10James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas Robert Hardwicke, 1871 |
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... actions , so that an out TO . 1 shows J. ALDERMAN'S Patent Graduating Elastic Spinal and General Invalid Couch , can be adjusted imperceptibly to any position without being touched by the nurse , and free SAME AS SUPPLIED TO GENERAL ...
... actions , so that an out TO . 1 shows J. ALDERMAN'S Patent Graduating Elastic Spinal and General Invalid Couch , can be adjusted imperceptibly to any position without being touched by the nurse , and free SAME AS SUPPLIED TO GENERAL ...
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... action one of those new en- gines of destruction to the invention of which the present war has given so great an impetus . This is an armour- plated locomotive , furnished with two powerful mitrailleurs , also protected by armour , and ...
... action one of those new en- gines of destruction to the invention of which the present war has given so great an impetus . This is an armour- plated locomotive , furnished with two powerful mitrailleurs , also protected by armour , and ...
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... action of natural selection is sufficient to pro- duce all the necessary modifications , but so far as express words go , he has not excluded - at any rate in the passage which I have quoted - the possibility of the co - operation or ...
... action of natural selection is sufficient to pro- duce all the necessary modifications , but so far as express words go , he has not excluded - at any rate in the passage which I have quoted - the possibility of the co - operation or ...
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... action of natural selection . If the primitive flint- chippers had brains not much larger than apes , if those of the modern savages were a little bigger still , and if , as we travelled towards the civilised and intellectual periods of ...
... action of natural selection . If the primitive flint- chippers had brains not much larger than apes , if those of the modern savages were a little bigger still , and if , as we travelled towards the civilised and intellectual periods of ...
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... action of mind , on the one hand , with the highest of the brutes beneath , and , on the other , with the civilised man above him . If the difference in the amount of brain corresponds in these three gradations with the difference in ...
... action of mind , on the one hand , with the highest of the brutes beneath , and , on the other , with the civilised man above him . If the difference in the amount of brain corresponds in these three gradations with the difference in ...
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Página 256 - And taste, to him the gushing of the wave Far far away did seem to mourn and rave On alien shores ; and if his fellow spake, His voice was thin, as voices from the grave ; And deep-asleep he seem'd, yet all awake, And music in his ears his beating heart did make...
Página 116 - WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (Perfected and Exhibited in the Great Exhibitions of 1851 & 1862} Is allowed by upwards of 200 Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective invention in the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is here avoided ; a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the MOC-MAIN PAD and PATENT LEVER, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn...
Página 14 - I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number.
Página 256 - Branches they bore of that enchanted stem, Laden with flower and fruit, whereof they gave To each, but whoso did receive of them, And taste, to him the gushing of the wave Far, far away did seem to mourn and rave On alien shores...
Página 14 - Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth, have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.
Página 116 - ... its effects, is here avoided ; a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the MOC-MAIN PAD and PATENT LEVER, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the Truss (which cannot fail to fit...