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... doubt whether the climate of our country has changed its character within the last two hundred years . Jef- ferson and Dr. Rush both contended that it had . Our oldest inhabitants assert that in their day our winters began nearly two ...
... doubt whether the climate of our country has changed its character within the last two hundred years . Jef- ferson and Dr. Rush both contended that it had . Our oldest inhabitants assert that in their day our winters began nearly two ...
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... , If I had been the dying king , About as far as you could sling An elephant by the tail ! GOOD subjects then , as now , no doubt , When a king was dead , were eager to shout In time , " God save " the new one 26 [ July , Treasure - Trove .
... , If I had been the dying king , About as far as you could sling An elephant by the tail ! GOOD subjects then , as now , no doubt , When a king was dead , were eager to shout In time , " God save " the new one 26 [ July , Treasure - Trove .
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... doubt not , it was considered a very creditable piece of Baltimore typography . This unpretend- ing volume was compiled by Chancellor Kilty . It is a very instructive book , con- taining much curious matter , is worthy of better ...
... doubt not , it was considered a very creditable piece of Baltimore typography . This unpretend- ing volume was compiled by Chancellor Kilty . It is a very instructive book , con- taining much curious matter , is worthy of better ...
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... doubt , and give some post- humous fame to the subject of the dis- closure . In the month of May , 1836 , I had a motive and an opportunity to make a visit to the County of St. Mary's . I had been looking into the histories of our early ...
... doubt , and give some post- humous fame to the subject of the dis- closure . In the month of May , 1836 , I had a motive and an opportunity to make a visit to the County of St. Mary's . I had been looking into the histories of our early ...
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... doubt that a portion of the engravings on the rocks above described , but particularly those which seem to record dates , were made by them . From Aramacina to Caridad , the next town on our course , and four leagues dis- tant , the ...
... doubt that a portion of the engravings on the rocks above described , but particularly those which seem to record dates , were made by them . From Aramacina to Caridad , the next town on our course , and four leagues dis- tant , the ...
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Page 233 - History of New York, from the beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty.
Page 207 - 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.
Page 123 - OF all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well...
Page 606 - THE GLACIERS OF THE ALPS : being a Narrative of Excursions and Ascents. An Account of the Origin and Phenomena of Glaciers, and an Exposition of the Physical Principles to which they are related.
Page 479 - A GLACIER is AN IMPERFECT FLUID, OR A VISCOUS BODY. WHICH IS URGED DOWN SLOPES OF A CERTAIN INCLINATION BY THE MUTUAL PRESSURE OF ITS PARTS.
Page 207 - I can entertain no doubt, after the most deliberate study and dispassionate judgment of which I am capable, that the view which most naturalists until recently entertained, and which I formerly entertained, namely, that each species has been independently created, is erroneous. I am fully convinced that species are not immutable...
Page 207 - ... been stated that I attribute the modification of species exclusively to natural selection, I may be permitted to remark that in the first edition of this work, and subsequently, I placed in a most conspicuous position — namely, at the close of the Introduction the following words : "I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not the exclusive means of modification.
Page 264 - He being thus lorded, Not only with what my revenue yielded. But what my power might else exact, — like one Who having unto truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie...
Page 476 - Netherlands, at the end of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the sixteenth, we find the allegorical drama giving way to more definite and direct personations.
Page 165 - Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent Tobacco, which goes far beyond all their panaceas, potable gold, and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases. A good vomit, I confess, a virtuous herb, if it be well qualified, opportunely taken, and medicinally used, but, as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as Tinkers do Ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, land, health, hellish, devilish, and damned Tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.