Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People ...W. and R. Chambers, 1878 |
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Página 109 - The Christian Hero: an Argument proving that no Principles but those of Religion are sufficient to make a great man.
Página 80 - Cuthbert, round which were displayed those of St. Peter of York, St. John of Beverley, and St. Wilfred of Ripon.
Página 26 - If such do occur, can we doubt (remembering that many more individuals are born than can possibly survive) that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind? On the other hand, we may feel sure that any variation in the least degree injurious would be rigidly destroyed. This preservation of favourable individual differences and variations, and the destruction of those which are injurious, I have called Natural...
Página 220 - VIII. c. 1, declared the king and his successors to be the ' only supreme head on earth of the Church of England.
Página 26 - Creation' appeared in 1844. In the tenth and much improved edition (1853) the anonymous author says (p. 155): — "The proposition determined on after much consideration is, that the several series of animated beings, from the simplest and oldest up to the highest and most recent...
Página 346 - ... every person pretending or professing to tell fortunes, or using any subtle craft, means or device, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose on any of His Majesty's
Página 211 - ... and cursing and swearing in a manner so horrid as to convey to any serious mind an idea of hell rather than any other place.
Página 194 - When it is said that a man was a suicide, this implies that he was in his sensée, for otherwise he committed no crime; hence an insane person, unless when in a lucid interval, cannot commit the crime. The punishment inflicted on a suicide consisted, formerly, in an ignominious burial in the highway, with a stake driven through the body, and without Christian rites; also the legal consequence was forfeiture of the goods and chattels to the crown. The only consequences now are forfeiture of goods,...
Página 27 - ... forming sections and sub-genera, species of distinct genera much less closely related, and genera related in different degrees, forming sub-families, families, orders, sub-classes, and classes. The several subordinate groups in any class cannot be ranked in a single file, but seem rather to be clustered round points, and these round other points, and so on in almost endless cycles.
Página 27 - On our theory the continued existence of lowly organisms offers no difficulty ; for natural selection, or the survival of the fittest, does not necessarily include progressive development — it only takes advantage of such variations as arise and are beneficial to each creature under its complex relations of life.