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... animal . We find it in one region depressing , and in another elevating his various attributes : here it seems to endue his person with capacity for excessive delight , there it blunts his nerves and reduces his psychical sensibility ...
... animal . We find it in one region depressing , and in another elevating his various attributes : here it seems to endue his person with capacity for excessive delight , there it blunts his nerves and reduces his psychical sensibility ...
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... animal and vegetable life of this globe . How one continent differs from another in its fauna ! and in the case of ... animals CLIMATOLOGY . 7.
... animal and vegetable life of this globe . How one continent differs from another in its fauna ! and in the case of ... animals CLIMATOLOGY . 7.
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... animals of the zone - its cloudless sky , its glowing sun , the perfume of the flowers in the air , and the activity of life - with the dull , grey , monotonous north , where vegetation is at its lowest ebb , and man with his attendant ...
... animals of the zone - its cloudless sky , its glowing sun , the perfume of the flowers in the air , and the activity of life - with the dull , grey , monotonous north , where vegetation is at its lowest ebb , and man with his attendant ...
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... animals . " In the year 1779 , mumps assumed an epidemic character in a village in France , and is thus recorded by M. Rossignoly , in his Observations sur plusieurs fièvres d'une nature particulière , Journal de Médecine , t . lxv . p ...
... animals . " In the year 1779 , mumps assumed an epidemic character in a village in France , and is thus recorded by M. Rossignoly , in his Observations sur plusieurs fièvres d'une nature particulière , Journal de Médecine , t . lxv . p ...
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... animal juices ; and , secondly , to the moisture , which not only did not admit of exhalation of the redundant humours from the surface , but actually increased their amount ; consequently an accumulation took place in the system , for ...
... animal juices ; and , secondly , to the moisture , which not only did not admit of exhalation of the redundant humours from the surface , but actually increased their amount ; consequently an accumulation took place in the system , for ...
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