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Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which…
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To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense.
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From the sexual, or amatorial, generation of plants new varieties, or improvements, are frequently obtained; as many of the young plants from…
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Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring is termed a new animal, but it is in truth a branch or elongation…
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The great CREATOR of all things has infinitely diversified the works of his hands, but has at the same time stamped a…
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We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay,…
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Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die.
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There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize; and that…
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