The Popular Science Monthly, Volumen37D. Appleton, 1890 |
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... true these laws against the use of tobacco are not so severe as some that have been enacted in other countries , but they were equally inefficacious . Thus , a Sultan of Turkey issued an edict to the effect that any one of his subjects ...
... true these laws against the use of tobacco are not so severe as some that have been enacted in other countries , but they were equally inefficacious . Thus , a Sultan of Turkey issued an edict to the effect that any one of his subjects ...
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... true , and the laws against which the practices in question are directed are essentially sumptuary laws . The laws which several States have enacted relative to the manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors are true sumptuary laws ...
... true , and the laws against which the practices in question are directed are essentially sumptuary laws . The laws which several States have enacted relative to the manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors are true sumptuary laws ...
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... true concerning summer showers , which must fall very heavily , and be driven before a pretty strong wind , in order to batter down a well - constructed orb - web . * Reprinted from Vol . I of American Spiders and their Spinning - Work ...
... true concerning summer showers , which must fall very heavily , and be driven before a pretty strong wind , in order to batter down a well - constructed orb - web . * Reprinted from Vol . I of American Spiders and their Spinning - Work ...
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... true as to all colleges in the United States . Its remedy , in the opinion of President Eliot , is in both shortening and enriching our second- ary school courses of study . As illustrating what other countries have succeeded in doing ...
... true as to all colleges in the United States . Its remedy , in the opinion of President Eliot , is in both shortening and enriching our second- ary school courses of study . As illustrating what other countries have succeeded in doing ...
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... true , and are given perhaps on the general principle entering into the administration of certain family medicines , viz . , that if not of any direct service to the patient , they can do him no pos- sible harm . But in point of fact ...
... true , and are given perhaps on the general principle entering into the administration of certain family medicines , viz . , that if not of any direct service to the patient , they can do him no pos- sible harm . But in point of fact ...
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Página 606 - Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark : and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged ; the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained...
Página 144 - Ancient History, containing the Political History, Geographical Position, and Social State of the Principal Nations of Antiquity, carefully digested from the Ancient Writers and illustrated by the discoveries of Modern Scholars and Travellers.
Página 261 - It seems hard that widows and orphans should be left to struggle for life or death. Nevertheless, when regarded not separately, but in connection with the interests of universal humanity, these harsh fatalities are seen to be full of the highest beneficence — the same beneficence which brings to early graves the children of diseased parents, and singles out the low-spirited, the intemperate, and the debilitated as the victims of an epidemic.
Página 76 - I am fully convinced that species are not immutable ; but that those belonging to what are called the same genera are lineal descendants of some other and generally extinct species, in the same manner as the acknowledged varieties of any one species are the descendants of that species. Furthermore, I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the most important, but not the exclusive, means of modification.
Página 599 - But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark. And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Página 288 - Principles of Monocular and Binocular Vision, By JOSEPH LE CONTE, LL. D. With 132 Illustrations.
Página 480 - ... the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of His indignation : and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb : and the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever : and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
Página 242 - ... it is supposed that a shrew-mouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb.
Página 480 - And if thy hand cause thee to stumble, cut it off: it is good for thee to enter into life maimed, rather than having thy two hands to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.
Página 288 - It has often been vaguely asserted that plants are distinguished from animals by not having the power of movement. It should rather be said that plants acquire and display this power only when it is of some advantage to them...