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... Vols . Octavo , price 21s . The Punjab and Delhi in 1857 : BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE MEASURES BY WHICH THE PUNJAB WAS SAVED AND DELHI RECOVERED DURING THE INDIAN MUTINY . By the Rev. J. CAVE - BROWNE , Chaplain of the Punjab Movable ...
... Vols . Octavo , price 21s . The Punjab and Delhi in 1857 : BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE MEASURES BY WHICH THE PUNJAB WAS SAVED AND DELHI RECOVERED DURING THE INDIAN MUTINY . By the Rev. J. CAVE - BROWNE , Chaplain of the Punjab Movable ...
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... Vols . , The Sketcher . By the Rev. JOHN EAGLES , A.M. , Oxon . Originally published in Blackwood's Magazine . In ... Vol . Octavo , price 16s . MESSRS BLACKWOOD AND SONS ' PUBLICATIONS . 13 Tales from.
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The Past and Present Life of the Globe, a Sketch of the World's Life-System Co-Director Media South Asia Project Institute of Development Studies David Page Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2016 |
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Side 211 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Side 210 - It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so Complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.
Side 54 - That, chang'd thro' all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth, as in th' ethereal frame ; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze; Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the 'trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Side 210 - These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction ; Inheritance which is almost implied by Reproduction ; Variability from the indirect and direct action of the conditions of life, and from use and disuse...