The Cornhill Magazine, Volumen 45William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1882 |
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... soon as Dr. Cooper saw him he expressed to me the gravest anxiety about his state of mind . There was only one thing , as I told you , which betrayed this - when the least allusion was made to little Davey he was not himself . But after ...
... soon as Dr. Cooper saw him he expressed to me the gravest anxiety about his state of mind . There was only one thing , as I told you , which betrayed this - when the least allusion was made to little Davey he was not himself . But after ...
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... soon afterwards . " " Then you were my first patron , Mr. Fortescue ? " " Nay ; I had only the happiness of convincing Messrs . Pater and Son of your genius . " " Oh , you flatterer ! " " & c . " Here ensued again what ancient writers ...
... soon afterwards . " " Then you were my first patron , Mr. Fortescue ? " " Nay ; I had only the happiness of convincing Messrs . Pater and Son of your genius . " " Oh , you flatterer ! " " & c . " Here ensued again what ancient writers ...
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... Soon afterwards , thanks to Felspar , who has been our good genius all along , Mr. Aird became aware of - of - what I have just told you . You know how tenderly attached he was to you , and how he strove to show it in his lifetime ...
... Soon afterwards , thanks to Felspar , who has been our good genius all along , Mr. Aird became aware of - of - what I have just told you . You know how tenderly attached he was to you , and how he strove to show it in his lifetime ...
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... soon as you make money by your profession , which I hear you are in a fair way to do , you will , of course , leave them . I was sorry to learn how shamefully Mr. Aird - or rather Mr. Vernon - had behaved to you . The idea of his coming ...
... soon as you make money by your profession , which I hear you are in a fair way to do , you will , of course , leave them . I was sorry to learn how shamefully Mr. Aird - or rather Mr. Vernon - had behaved to you . The idea of his coming ...
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... soon began to produce an outer row of barren and specialised stamens , adapted by their size and colour for attracting the fertilising insects ; and these barren and specialised stamens are what we commonly call petals . Any flowers ...
... soon began to produce an outer row of barren and specialised stamens , adapted by their size and colour for attracting the fertilising insects ; and these barren and specialised stamens are what we commonly call petals . Any flowers ...
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Página 43 - in the sense of the bright ones," had been applied by the Vedic poets to the stars in general, and more particularly to that constellation which in the northern parts of India was the most prominent. The etymological meaning, "the bright stars," was forgotten; the popular meaning of Riksha (bear) was known to every one.
Página 283 - ... of consciousness or volition, or even contrary to the latter. As actions of a certain degree of complexity are brought about by mere mechanism, why may not actions of still greater complexity be the result of a more refined mechanism? What proof is there that brutes are other than a superior race of marionettes, which eat without pleasure, cry without pain, desire nothing, know nothing, and only simulate intelligence as a bee simulates a mathematician?
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