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... admitted , are equally unsuited for the amusement and instruction of the public and for the purposes of the scientific student . VOL . II B Public museums of natural objects being such entirely modern institutions CHAPTER.
... admitted , are equally unsuited for the amusement and instruction of the public and for the purposes of the scientific student . VOL . II B Public museums of natural objects being such entirely modern institutions CHAPTER.
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... admitted that not only is there no ante- cedent improbability in these new discoveries , but that the theory of evolution if it is worth anything , demands that the origin of man be placed very far back in the tertiary period . While ...
... admitted that not only is there no ante- cedent improbability in these new discoveries , but that the theory of evolution if it is worth anything , demands that the origin of man be placed very far back in the tertiary period . While ...
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... admitting of greater detail , while variety would be obtained by the view at different distances and under various kinds of illumina- tion . One other consideration may be adduced in this con- nection , which is , that even the outer ...
... admitting of greater detail , while variety would be obtained by the view at different distances and under various kinds of illumina- tion . One other consideration may be adduced in this con- nection , which is , that even the outer ...
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... admitting of free access to every part of it , would probably be even more attractive than the forest of Eastern America . For many of these trees are exquisitely beautiful objects in their young state , the varying colours of the under ...
... admitting of free access to every part of it , would probably be even more attractive than the forest of Eastern America . For many of these trees are exquisitely beautiful objects in their young state , the varying colours of the under ...
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... admitting air and sunshine , and forming agreeable contrasts . Trees which are any way remarkable for their age , size , or picturesque beauty should be cleared of surrounding thicket , so that they may be properly seen and admired ...
... admitting air and sunshine , and forming agreeable contrasts . Trees which are any way remarkable for their age , size , or picturesque beauty should be cleared of surrounding thicket , so that they may be properly seen and admired ...
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Page 453 - The land shall not be sold for ever; for the land is mine, for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
Page 455 - His watchmen are blind : they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark ; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand : they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
Page 452 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 454 - And again I say unto you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Page 368 - This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. 9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Page 434 - They are clothed in velvet and warm in their furs and their ermines, while we are covered with rags. They have wine and spices and fair bread; and we oat-cake and straw, and water to drink. They have leisure and fine houses; we have pain and labour, the rain and the wind in the fields. And yet it is of us and of our toil that these men hold their state.
Page 322 - Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Page 435 - Therefore I must say that, as I hope for mercy, I can have no other notion of all the other governments that I see or know, than that they are a conspiracy of the rich, who on pretence of managing the public only pursue their private ends, and devise all the ways and arts they can find out; first, that they may, without danger, preserve all that they have so ill acquired, and then that they may engage the poor to toil and labor for them at as low rates as possible, and oppress them as much as they...
Page 343 - has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other...
Page 342 - And as before so here, we see that, ethically considered, this law implies that each individual ought to receive the benefits and the evils of his own nature and consequent conduct : neither being prevented from having whatever good his actions normally bring to him, nor allowed to shoulder off on to other persons whatever ill is brought to him by his actions.