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Page 300 - 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.
Page 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...
Page 171 - 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.
Page 204 - Henry VIII. c. 1, declared the king and his successors to be the ' only supreme head on earth of the Church of England.
Page 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?
Page 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.
Page 328 - ... 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
Page 195 - ... 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.
Page 241 - Members of the Senate. The UNIVERSITY COUNSEL are appointed by Grace of the Senate, and are consulted upon various occasions. The SOLICITOR is appointed by the Vice-Chancellor. SYNDICS are the members of special committees of members of the Senate, appointed by Grace from time to time for specific duties.
Page 309 - ... of the tubes and cells, or contained in a minutely divided state in their cavities. The tubes and cells contain, besides the calcareous particles, a colorless fluid, which is probably transuded blood plasma, or liquor tanguinit, and contributes to the nutrition of the dentine.