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... recognise even dried human blood . A little of such blood is dissolved in normal salt solution , and placed in a tube containing the serum of an animal prepared by means of the injections of human blood . If a precipitate forms in the ...
... recognise even dried human blood . A little of such blood is dissolved in normal salt solution , and placed in a tube containing the serum of an animal prepared by means of the injections of human blood . If a precipitate forms in the ...
Page 95
... recognised as an * Moll , " Untersuch . über die Libido Sexualis , " vol . I. , P. 44 . ↑ " Real - encyclopædie der gesammt . Heilkunde , " vol . XIV . , p . 593 . Second Edition , 1888 . Fürbringer , loc . cit . § " Dictionnaire ...
... recognised as an * Moll , " Untersuch . über die Libido Sexualis , " vol . I. , P. 44 . ↑ " Real - encyclopædie der gesammt . Heilkunde , " vol . XIV . , p . 593 . Second Edition , 1888 . Fürbringer , loc . cit . § " Dictionnaire ...
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... recognise the smell of dead bodies . Those which are accustomed to feed on living creatures refuse all others , detecting the difference by the absence of movement . As in such cases the idea of death is imperfect , it is easy to ...
... recognise the smell of dead bodies . Those which are accustomed to feed on living creatures refuse all others , detecting the difference by the absence of movement . As in such cases the idea of death is imperfect , it is easy to ...
Page 117
... recognised that the old attach a higher value to life than do the young . J. J. Rousseau , for instance , says : " Life becomes dearer to us as its joys pass away . The old cling to it more closely than the young . " " " * This ...
... recognised that the old attach a higher value to life than do the young . J. J. Rousseau , for instance , says : " Life becomes dearer to us as its joys pass away . The old cling to it more closely than the young . " " " * This ...
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... recognised that she was seriously ill , and that she regarded death as the only possible termination to her sufferings . As soon as she found that recovery was possible , she mani- fested intense delight at the prospect of a prolonged ...
... recognised that she was seriously ill , and that she regarded death as the only possible termination to her sufferings . As soon as she found that recovery was possible , she mani- fested intense delight at the prospect of a prolonged ...
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Page 291 - Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Page 161 - For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
Page 291 - ... then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
Page 160 - LORD empty: every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.
Page 278 - Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.
Page 13 - I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
Page 289 - Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion ; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during •which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.
Page 175 - tis not in The harmony of things, — this hard decree, This uneradicable taint of sin, This boundless upas, this all-blasting tree...
Page 82 - Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die...
Page 224 - I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.