The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 24D. Appleton, 1884 |
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... called the " humanities . " But when your system comes to its present results , and demands of the physician , the chemist , and the engineer - whose birthright is a certain social status , which by accident you tempo- rarily control ...
... called the " humanities . " But when your system comes to its present results , and demands of the physician , the chemist , and the engineer - whose birthright is a certain social status , which by accident you tempo- rarily control ...
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... called into play . Wherever , by conquest , intermarriage of princes , or treaties of alliance , two or more small states are thoroughly merged into a larger , there a coalescence of their gods and diminution of the number of the ...
... called into play . Wherever , by conquest , intermarriage of princes , or treaties of alliance , two or more small states are thoroughly merged into a larger , there a coalescence of their gods and diminution of the number of the ...
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... called a kind of primi- tive philosophy . So , full - fledged philosophy has been the constant pioneer of a purer theology , and the diverse speculations of the intel- lect , from the days of Ptah - hotep and Lao - Tsee down to those of ...
... called a kind of primi- tive philosophy . So , full - fledged philosophy has been the constant pioneer of a purer theology , and the diverse speculations of the intel- lect , from the days of Ptah - hotep and Lao - Tsee down to those of ...
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... called physical section of this As- sociation . Fain would I speak pleasant words to you on this subject ; fain would I recount to you the progress made in this subject by my countrymen , and their noble efforts to understand the order ...
... called physical section of this As- sociation . Fain would I speak pleasant words to you on this subject ; fain would I recount to you the progress made in this subject by my countrymen , and their noble efforts to understand the order ...
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... called colleges and universities- 206 had 0 to 10 in the faculty . 99 17 66 10 " 20 " 20 or over 66 66 66 66 If the statistics were forthcoming - and possibly they may exist― we might also get an idea of the standing of these ...
... called colleges and universities- 206 had 0 to 10 in the faculty . 99 17 66 10 " 20 " 20 or over 66 66 66 66 If the statistics were forthcoming - and possibly they may exist― we might also get an idea of the standing of these ...
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Page 659 - And the bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
Page 523 - I hereby appoint sole executrix of this my last will and testament ; hereby revoking all former wills by me made.
Page 351 - Amid the mysteries which become the more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the ONE absolute certainty, that he is ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed.
Page 659 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Page 62 - A mass of living protoplasm is simply a molecular machine of great complexity, the total results of the working of which or its vital phenomena depend on the one hand on its construction and on the other on the energy supplied to it ; and to speak of vitality as anything but the name for a series of operations is as if one should talk of the horologity of a clock.
Page 348 - Consequently, the final outcome of that speculation commenced by the primitive man, is that the Power manifested throughout the Universe distinguished as material, is the same Power which in ourselves wells up under the form of consciousness.
Page 474 - Thus there is no escape from the admission that in calling good the conduct which subserves life, and bad the conduct which hinders or destroys it, and in so implying that life is a blessing and not a curse, we are inevitably asserting that conduct is good or bad according as its total effects are pleasurable or painful.
Page 226 - I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character ; that which tends to form a friend, a companion, and a wife.
Page 796 - Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants? The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.
Page 345 - ... they did not commit ; the damning of all men who do not avail themselves of an alleged mode of obtaining forgiveness, which most men have never heard of; and the effecting a reconciliation by sacrificing a son who was perfectly innocent, to satisfy the assumed necessity for a propitiatory victim, are modes of action which, ascribed to a human ruler, would call forth expressions of abhorrence...