Nature, Volumen45Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1892 |
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... fact , and scarcely in harmony with the observations of Schimper , Karsten , and others , so far as mangrove plants are concerned generally . In this connection it may be mentioned that mangrove plants have mostly . very thick leaves ...
... fact , and scarcely in harmony with the observations of Schimper , Karsten , and others , so far as mangrove plants are concerned generally . In this connection it may be mentioned that mangrove plants have mostly . very thick leaves ...
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... fact that capital is subject to such replacements enables us to assert that , in the long run , there is a tendency to some equality of reward be- tween indirect labour ( i.e. labour embodied in capital ) and direct labour . Thus in a ...
... fact that capital is subject to such replacements enables us to assert that , in the long run , there is a tendency to some equality of reward be- tween indirect labour ( i.e. labour embodied in capital ) and direct labour . Thus in a ...
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... fact , the travelled Frenchman seems to have been a person somewhat illiterate , as he had to call in extraneous aid in putting his memoirs into shape . He must be supposed to have picked up some colloquial Persian , but otherwise seems ...
... fact , the travelled Frenchman seems to have been a person somewhat illiterate , as he had to call in extraneous aid in putting his memoirs into shape . He must be supposed to have picked up some colloquial Persian , but otherwise seems ...
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... fact , that what we call the freezing and boiling - points of a body are the temperatures at which these changes take place at such free surfaces . The dust always present in the atmosphere offers this free surface to the gaseous water ...
... fact , that what we call the freezing and boiling - points of a body are the temperatures at which these changes take place at such free surfaces . The dust always present in the atmosphere offers this free surface to the gaseous water ...
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... fact that many unprotected animals render themselves inconspicuous by covering themselves with materials which resemble their environ- ment . Thus certain Lepidopterous larvæ form cases for themselves out of the fragments of the ...
... fact that many unprotected animals render themselves inconspicuous by covering themselves with materials which resemble their environ- ment . Thus certain Lepidopterous larvæ form cases for themselves out of the fragments of the ...
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Página 187 - English. has two separate sounds, the one hard as in the English word finger, the other as in singer. As these two sounds are rarely employed in the same locality, no attempt is made to distinguish between them. As in English.
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Página 31 - If it could be proved that any part of the structure of any one species had been formed for the exclusive good of another species, it would annihilate my theory, for such could not have been produced through natural selection.
Página 225 - ... the habit of contemplating its anatomical structure is not only a hindrance, but a degradation ; and farther yet, that even the study of the external form of the human body, more exposed than it may be healthily and decently in daily life, has been essentially destructive to every school of art in which it has been practised.
Página 187 - One accent only is used, the acute, to denote the syllable on which stress is laid. This is very important, as the sounds of many names are entirely altered by the misplacement of this
Página 227 - Yet in each soul is born the pleasure Of yearning onward, upward and away. When o'er our heads, lost in the vaulted azure. The lark sends down his flickering lay, When over crags and piny highlands The poising eagle slowly soars, And over plains and lakes and islands The crane sails by to other shores.
Página 187 - ... is the sound of the two Italian vowels, but is frequently slurred over, when it is scarcely to be distinguished from ey in the English they, or ei in eight.
Página 187 - Accents should not generally be used, but where there is a very decided emphatic syllable or stress, which affects the sound of the word, it should be marked by an acute accent.