The Nature of manPutnam's, 1905 - 309 pages |
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... young black slave , Edmond Albius , a native of Réunion , discovered in 1841 a practical method by which the male and female elements of the vanilla could be put in contact ; and from this discovery there came a great extension of the ...
... young black slave , Edmond Albius , a native of Réunion , discovered in 1841 a practical method by which the male and female elements of the vanilla could be put in contact ; and from this discovery there came a great extension of the ...
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... young ones in the fashion of human parents in nurseries . Fossorial wasps act differently ; they never see their young . They lay their eggs in burrows , sunk in the soil and hermetically sealed . The larvæ are hatched under- ground and ...
... young ones in the fashion of human parents in nurseries . Fossorial wasps act differently ; they never see their young . They lay their eggs in burrows , sunk in the soil and hermetically sealed . The larvæ are hatched under- ground and ...
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... young crickets , are attacked , the operation does not present any difficulties . But Coleoptera in general , and the Buprestes and weevils in particular , are furnished with a very. FIG . 3 - Cerceris ( after Buffon ) . FIG . 4 ...
... young crickets , are attacked , the operation does not present any difficulties . But Coleoptera in general , and the Buprestes and weevils in particular , are furnished with a very. FIG . 3 - Cerceris ( after Buffon ) . FIG . 4 ...
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... young rabbits without experience ; but this aberration of instinct is also met with in old rabbits , which once and for all have contracted the habit of aban- doning or eating their young . Some females of other species of mammals and ...
... young rabbits without experience ; but this aberration of instinct is also met with in old rabbits , which once and for all have contracted the habit of aban- doning or eating their young . Some females of other species of mammals and ...
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... young is destructive to the stock . In consequence , individuals affected by it do not have the opportunity of transmitting the perversion . If all rabbits , or a majority of them , left their young to die through neglect , it is ...
... young is destructive to the stock . In consequence , individuals affected by it do not have the opportunity of transmitting the perversion . If all rabbits , or a majority of them , left their young to die through neglect , it is ...
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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 11 - 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.