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... connection with 99 99 99 the newspaper and reprinted " Darwin among the Machines " and " Lucubratio Ebria . " July 15. The fourth Erewhon dinner at Pagani's Res- taurant ; 75 present : the day was fixed by Sir William Phipson Beale ...
... connection with 99 99 99 the newspaper and reprinted " Darwin among the Machines " and " Lucubratio Ebria . " July 15. The fourth Erewhon dinner at Pagani's Res- taurant ; 75 present : the day was fixed by Sir William Phipson Beale ...
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... connection with , and part outcome of , the force gen- erated when Handel sat in his room at Gopsall and wrote the Messiah . Think of all the forces which that force has con- trolled , and think , also , how small was the amount of ...
... connection with , and part outcome of , the force gen- erated when Handel sat in his room at Gopsall and wrote the Messiah . Think of all the forces which that force has con- trolled , and think , also , how small was the amount of ...
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... connected with money . The father keeps his affairs as closely as he can to himself and is most jealous of letting ... connection unduly and to make people hang together artificially who would never naturally do so . The mischief among ...
... connected with money . The father keeps his affairs as closely as he can to himself and is most jealous of letting ... connection unduly and to make people hang together artificially who would never naturally do so . The mischief among ...
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... connection between memory and heredity is so close that there is no reason for regarding the two as generically ... connections , and find them familiar to us . I say that the immediate antecedent of , and the phenomenon most closely ...
... connection between memory and heredity is so close that there is no reason for regarding the two as generically ... connections , and find them familiar to us . I say that the immediate antecedent of , and the phenomenon most closely ...
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... of its bond - and the rest will follow . Design i There is often connection but no design , as when I stamp my foot with design and shake something down without design , or as when a man runs up against 60 Memory and Design.
... of its bond - and the rest will follow . Design i There is often connection but no design , as when I stamp my foot with design and shake something down without design , or as when a man runs up against 60 Memory and Design.
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Page 203 - Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets; She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying. How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Page 203 - All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
Page 27 - OUT of the deep have I called unto thee, O LORD ; LORD, hear my voice. 0 let thine ears consider well the voice of my complaint. If thou, LORD, wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss; O LORD, who may abide it ? For there is mercy with thee: therefore shalt thou be feared.
Page 162 - What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is preached...
Page 214 - Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed ; Teach me to die, that so I may Rise glorious at the awful day.
Page 264 - Hey, Diddle, Diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed To see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon.
Page 60 - In the moral government of the world, it seems evidently necessary, that the sins of the fathers should be visited upon the children...
Page 220 - The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
Page 393 - if ever there was a sober creetur to be got at eighteen pence a day for working people, and three and six for gentlefolks - night watching,"' said Mrs Gamp with emphasis, '"being a extra charge - you are that inwallable person.
Page 217 - AN APOLOGY FOR THE DEVIL It must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.