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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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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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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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A fool, Mr, Edgeworth, is one who has never made an experiment.
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Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which…
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The colours of insects and many smaller animals contribute to conceal them from the larger ones which prey upon them. Caterpillars which…
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Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of…
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Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.
— Samuel Johnson
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To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.
— Franz Grillparzer
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Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.
— John Flavel
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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…
— Erasmus Darwin
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They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.
— Marquis de Sade
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Bidding the wizard farewell, he turned to his daughter, who held up her finger and said, “Daddy, look — one of the…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do…
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