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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…
• Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring is termed a new animal, but it is in truth a branch or elongation…
• The great CREATOR of all things has infinitely diversified the works of his hands, but has at the same time stamped a…
• Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which…
• To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense.
• We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay,…
• Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die.
• There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize; and that…
• A fool, Mr, Edgeworth, is one who has never made an experiment.
• Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which…
• The colours of insects and many smaller animals contribute to conceal them from the larger ones which prey upon them. Caterpillars which…
• 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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