The Review of Reviews, Volume 12William Thomas Stead Office of the Review of Reviews, 1895 |
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... published in the Journal des Savants an account of an experiment made by one of his friends , named Wilde , who caused flowers to grow instantaneously . The secret lay in the preparation of the ground , but it was not revealed . 66 ...
... published in the Journal des Savants an account of an experiment made by one of his friends , named Wilde , who caused flowers to grow instantaneously . The secret lay in the preparation of the ground , but it was not revealed . 66 ...
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... published by Mr. Watkins on Holy Matrimony and Dr. Luckock on the history of marriage to a close examina- tion into which we need not follow him . The following passage , however , puts the arguments as to the fallibility of the Church ...
... published by Mr. Watkins on Holy Matrimony and Dr. Luckock on the history of marriage to a close examina- tion into which we need not follow him . The following passage , however , puts the arguments as to the fallibility of the Church ...
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... published newspapers in many languages , and who , by his reforms , which were not always mercifully carried out , earned for himself a great historical name . The rough soldier who had survived many a bloody struggle became in mature ...
... published newspapers in many languages , and who , by his reforms , which were not always mercifully carried out , earned for himself a great historical name . The rough soldier who had survived many a bloody struggle became in mature ...
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... published , are to be found in the Russian Imperial archives , and they show that the redoubtable Empress had , when writing even to unknown friends , a pretty wit , and that the Russian Court , even in those far off days , took a keen ...
... published , are to be found in the Russian Imperial archives , and they show that the redoubtable Empress had , when writing even to unknown friends , a pretty wit , and that the Russian Court , even in those far off days , took a keen ...
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... published at 1s . 6d . , contains one coloured plate which had better have been left out . The frontispiece , how- ever , is charming , and the illustrations are up to the usual high standard . Mr. Rider Haggard's story , “ Joan Haste ...
... published at 1s . 6d . , contains one coloured plate which had better have been left out . The frontispiece , how- ever , is charming , and the illustrations are up to the usual high standard . Mr. Rider Haggard's story , “ Joan Haste ...
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Page 367 - 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 364 - the degrees of difference, so produced, are often, as in dogs, greater than those on which distinctions of species are in other cases founded. They can show that it is a matter of dispute whether some of these modified forms are varieties or modified species. They can show too that the changes daily
Page 364 - differences, an influence, which, though slow in its action, does in time, if the circumstances demand it, produce marked changes; an influence which, to all appearance, would produce in the millions of years, and under the great varieties of condition which geological records imply, any amount of change.
Page 317 - Hundred and seventeenth psalm," says Mr. Carlyle, " at the foot of the Doon Hill ; there we uplift it, to the tune of Bangor, or some still higher score, and roll it strong and great against the sky :— О give ye praise unto the Lord,
Page 318 - in time past Forbids me to think He'll leave me at last In trouble to sink. Each sweet Ebenczer I have in review, Confirms His
Page 308 - common cause and ground of all,—yet that knowledge is of most worth which stands in closest relation to the highest forms of the activity of that Spirit which is created in the image of Him who holds Nature and Man alike in the hollow of his hand.
Page 365 - besides minor fragments, one large division ("The Principles of Psychology") is already, in great part, executed. And a further reply is, that impossible though it may prove to execute the whole, yet nothing can be said against an attempt to set forth the " First Principles,
Page 155 - no thrill, no stir, no seeming of reality ; its characters are confusedly drawn, and by their acts and words they prove that they are not the sort of people the author claims that they are; its humour is pathetic; its pathos
Page 292 - implacable smiting of the black waves, provoking each other on, endlessly, all the infinite march of the Atlantic rolling on behind them to their help and still to strike them back into a wreath of smoke and futile foam, and win its way against them, and keep its charge of life from them; does any other soulless thing do
Page 288 - than the advantage held by this Japanese race in the struggle of life ; it shows also the real character of some weaknesses in our own civilisation. It forces reflection upon the useless multiplicity of our daily wants. We must have meat and bread and butter; glass windows and