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...in scientific literature and arguably the pivotal work in evolutionary biology. The book’s full title is On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. It introduced the theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. It was controversial because i...

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...dinner, consented to say it was good, without specifying a dish, because a selection of this or that would have seemed to italicize, and commit, them,... ...ed by mama; and we are to have a feast of literary celebrities.’ ‘Colney’s selection of them! And Simeon Fenellan, I hope. Perhaps Dartrey. Perhaps … ... ... of this last cruel stroke to the divine scourge, recognized divine by the selection of the mor- tal spot for chastisement. She clasped her breast, an...

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...te as spokes- man, as soon as the consul should see fit to address us. The selection was made contrary to mine and the doctor’s advice; however, all a... ...he most promising subjects for conversion, and which led, moreover, to the selection of their island as the very first field for missionary labour, ev...

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...e hinted at his having more and more given way to a different principle of selection; the moral of which seemed to be that he went about little in the... ...dly as picked. Nu- merous as was the company, it had still been made so by selection, and what was above all rare for Strether was that, by no fault o... ...lt him softly round, it roofed him warmly over, it rested, all so firm, on selection. And what ruled selection was beauty and knowledge. It was awkwar...

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...er I am mistaken in believing that I have any talent at all, or you in the selection of the specimens of it. Yet, after all, I cannot but be conscious...

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... various genteel forms and elegant turns of expression, with a view to the selection of the very best in which to couch her communication, she cogitat... ...ication.’ ‘Yes,’ drawled Mrs Wititterly again. ‘If you have already made a selection—’ ‘Oh dear no,’ interrupted the lady , ‘I am not so easily suited... ...f at home; and if Mrs Nickleby was not quite so felicitous at times in the selection of topics of discourse, or if she did seem, as Mrs Browdie expres...

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...result is, it must be confessed, neither fascinating nor artistic.” “A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a realistic ef fect... ...deed, it was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your newspaper selections.” “Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the per...

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...d to say. Ah! ah! what pretty faces!” A bevy of young girls at this moment entered the salon, conducted by Madame de Navailles, and to Manicamp’s cred... ...test atten- tion. Never, until now, had she bestowed such close atten- tion upon riches in which women take so much pride; never, until now, had she l...

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... imprisoned in this cell. On the right wall, near the door-end, was a long selection from Goethe, laboriously copied. Near the other end of this wall ... ... something which he shouldn’t. B. intro- duced me, whereupon the smile and selection was repeated. “He thinks I’m a German,” B. explained in a whisper...

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...back was half turned, winking. I had no time for verification, no time for selection, no time for anything, for I had no time to 15 Charles Dickens s...

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...nguage sources, giving many of these tales their first appearance in English. As acknowledged in the prefaces, although Lang himself made most of the selections, his wife and other translators did a large portion of the translating and telling of the actual stories. The irony of Lang's life and work is that although he wrote for a profession—literary criticism; fiction; po...

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... out at intervals to Madame Ratignolle. That lady seemed at a loss to make a selection, but finally settled upon a stick of nougat, wondering if it we... ...re to choose, and begged that Mademoiselle Reisz would please herself in her selections. Edna was what she herself called very fond of music. Musical ... ...s part and always formed a central figure. Nor was the Doctor happier in his selection, when he told the old, ever new and curious story of the waning... ...le went into the drawing room near by and talked. Miss Highcamp played some selections from Grieg upon the piano. She seemed to have apprehended all ...

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...eased Pillow, Worth and Duncan from arrest. If a change was to be made the selection of General Butler 91 U. S. Grant was agreeable to every one conc... ...by me at Mattoon, refused to go into the service with the colonel of their selection in any position. While I was still absent Governor Yates appointe... ...nstitution Commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy, is responsible for the selection of commanders. He should not be embar- rassed in making his selec... .... Meade interfered with this. Burnside then took Ledlie’s division—a worse selection than the first could have been. In fact, Potter and Willcox were ...

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...qualifies them the more for their other office—namely, that they are not a selection of the greatest political minds in the country, from whose opinio... ...o did not like the local candidates would fill up their voting papers by a selection from all the persons of national reputation on the list of candid... ... is, if the primary electors did to any extent leave to their nominees the selection of their Parliamentary representative, the voter would be prevent... ...terary eminence are too in definite and disputable: they imply a power of selection, whereas the other qualifications speak for themselves; if the wr... ... good rule that all who hold high appointments to which they have risen by selection, and not by the ordinary course of promotion, should retain their... ...e place, as it usually does at present, on a mixed system of seniority and selection. Those whose duties are of a routine character should 181 J S Mi... ...ected from the body on the discretion of the chief of the office. And this selection will generally be made honestly by him if the original appointmen... ...any citizens in turn have the chance of being elected, and many, either by selection or by rotation, fill one or other of the numerous local executive...

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...nt of India, and teach Indian officials to understand their business. If a selection of them were pub lished, they would, I am convinced, place his c... ...e the other, though right in adopting a deductive method, had made a wrong selection of one, having taken as the type of deduction, not the appropriat... ... the pub lication of its second volume. And I carried through the press a selection of my minor writings, forming the first two vol umes of Dissert... ...s, forming the first two vol umes of Dissertations and Discussions . The selection had been made during my wife’s lifetime, but the revision, in con...

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...some timid purpose instead of pro- ceeding authoritatively from the living selection of his hereditary taste.” This extract is a fair sample of the bo...