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Zoonomia, Or, The Laws of Organic Life: In Three Parts - Page 395
by Erasmus Darwin - 1803
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Zoonomia; Or, The Laws of Organic Life ...

Erasmus Darwin - Evolution - 1801 - 602 pages
...propenfities, directed by irritations, fenfations, volitions, and aflbciations ; and thus pofTefling the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent...pofterity, world without end ? ••'•-.. Sixthly^ The cold-blogded animals, as the fifhtribesj which are fnrnifhed with but one ventricle of the heart, and...
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Zoonomia, Volume 1

Erasmus Darwin - 1818 - 616 pages
...propensities, directed by irritations, sensations, volitions, and associations; and thus possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity, and of delivering down those im- f, provements by generation to its posterity, world without end? / Sixthly, The cold-blooded...
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The Torch

412 pages
...propensities, directed by imitations, sensations, volitions, and associations, and that possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity, and of delivering down those improvements by generation to its posterity, world without end ! !" But Mr Weeks and our author...
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Ornamental and Domestic Poultry: Their History, and Management

Edmund Saul Dixon - Poultry - 1848 - 388 pages
...propensities, directed by irritations, sensations, volitions, and associations ; and thus possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity, and of delivering down those improvements by generation to its posterity, world without end ! " — Id. vol. ip 505. These...
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A Treatise on the History and Management of Ornamental and Domestic Poultry

Edmund Saul Dixon - Poultry - 1857 - 544 pages
...propensities, directed by irritations, sensations, volitions, and associations; and thus possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity, and of delivering down those improvements by generation to its posterity, world without end I" — Id. vol. i. p. 505. These...
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The Bibliotheca Sacra, Volume 35

Bible - 1878 - 826 pages
...propensities, directed by irritations, sensations, volitions, and associations ; and thus possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity, and of delivering down those improvements by generation to its posterity, world without end ? " After 'this passage, he further...
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Evolution, old and new; or, The theories of Buffon, dr. Erasmus Darwin, and ...

Samuel Butler - Evolution - 1879 - 436 pages
...propensities, directed by irritations, sensations, volitions, and associations; and thus possessing the faculty of continuing to improve, by its own inherent activity, and of delivering down those improvements by generation to its posterity world without end ! " Sixthly, the cold-blooded animals,...
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Erasmus Darwin

Ernst Krause - Biologists - 1879 - 224 pages
...propensities, " directed by irritations, sensations, volitions, " and associations ; and thus possessing the " faculty of continuing to improve by its own " inherent activity, and of delivering down " those improvements by generation to its " posterity, world without end !" It might be doubted, the...
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Erasmus Darwin, tr. by W.S. Dallas

Ernst Ludwig Krause - 1879 - 230 pages
...propensities, " directed by irritations, sensations, volitions, " and associations ; and thus possessing the " faculty of continuing to improve by its own " inherent activity, and of delivering down " those improvements by generation to its " posterity, world without end !" It might be doubted, the...
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Quarterly Journal of Science, and Annals of Mining, Metallurgy ..., Volume 17

James Samuelson, Sir William Crookes - Science - 1880 - 822 pages
...propensities, directed by irritations, sensations, volitions, and associations ; and thus possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity, and of delivering down those improvements by generation to its posterity, world without end." This idea is by no means unsuitable...
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