Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, Том 9

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W. and R. Chambers, 1868
 

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Страница 354 - When all is done, (he concludes,) human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
Страница 314 - Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. 28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you : I am the LORD.
Страница 181 - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.
Страница 164 - Lives of the Queens of Scotland, and English Princesses connected with the Regal Succession of Great Britain.
Страница 109 - The Christian Hero: an Argument proving that no Principles but those of Religion are sufficient to make a great man.
Страница 80 - Cuthbert, round which were displayed those of St. Peter of York, St. John of Beverley, and St. Wilfred of Ripon.
Страница 26 - ... 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 Selection,...
Страница 220 - VIII. c. 1, declared the king and his successors to be the ' only supreme head on earth of the Church of England.
Страница 26 - Can it then be thought improbable, seeing that variations useful to man have undoubtedly occurred, that other variations useful in some way to each being in the great and complex battle of life, should occur in the course of many successive generations? 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?
Страница 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.

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