The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 40D. Appleton, 1892 - Science |
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... species of plants known to botanical science and the number of those which are employed by man . The species of flowering plants already described and named are about one hundred and seven thousand . Acquisitions from unexplored or ...
... species of plants known to botanical science and the number of those which are employed by man . The species of flowering plants already described and named are about one hundred and seven thousand . Acquisitions from unexplored or ...
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... species . If we should add to this short catalogue all the species which , without cultivation , can be used by man , we should find it considerably lengthened . A great many products of the classes just referred to are derived in com ...
... species . If we should add to this short catalogue all the species which , without cultivation , can be used by man , we should find it considerably lengthened . A great many products of the classes just referred to are derived in com ...
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... species of flowerless plants also . Of the five hundred ferns and their allies we employ for other than decorative pur- poses only five ; the mosses and liverworts , roughly estimated at five hundred species , have only four which are ...
... species of flowerless plants also . Of the five hundred ferns and their allies we employ for other than decorative pur- poses only five ; the mosses and liverworts , roughly estimated at five hundred species , have only four which are ...
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... species of grasses which yield these seed - like fruits , or , as we might call them for our purpose , seeds , are ... species of Graminea are counted as food - plants under cultivation , while the number of species in this order which ...
... species of grasses which yield these seed - like fruits , or , as we might call them for our purpose , seeds , are ... species of Graminea are counted as food - plants under cultivation , while the number of species in this order which ...
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... species of cereals is certainly known in the wild state . Now and then speci- mens have been gathered in the East which can be referred to the probable types from which our varieties have sprung , but doubt has been thrown upon every ...
... species of cereals is certainly known in the wild state . Now and then speci- mens have been gathered in the East which can be referred to the probable types from which our varieties have sprung , but doubt has been thrown upon every ...
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Page 443 - The property which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
Page 205 - And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.
Page 438 - No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or disseised, or outlawed, or banished, or any ways destroyed, nor will we pass upon him, nor will we send upon him, unless by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
Page 205 - And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee, in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
Page 52 - Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.
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Page 587 - ... wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred Scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.
Page 205 - And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin ; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you...
Page 435 - The liberty mentioned in that amendment means not only the right of the citizen to be free from the mere physical restraint of his person, as by incarceration, but the term is deemed to embrace the right of the citizen to be free in the enjoyment of all his faculties; to be free to use them in all lawful ways ; to live and work where he will ; to earn his livelihood by any lawful calling ; to pursue any livelihood or avocation, and for that purpose to enter into all contracts which may be proper,...
Page 203 - Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them...