The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay: Contributions to the Edinburgh review. Contributions to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Miscellaneous poems, inscriptions, etcLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860 |
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... fecundity varies in different communities and countries . The principle which effects this variation , without the necessity of those cruel and unnatural expedients so fre- quently adverted to , constitutes what I presume to call THE ...
... fecundity varies in different communities and countries . The principle which effects this variation , without the necessity of those cruel and unnatural expedients so fre- quently adverted to , constitutes what I presume to call THE ...
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... fecundity of a marriage in London is , as Mr. Sadler tells us , 2.35 . How many children will the woman in the back settlements bear according to Mr. Sadler's theory ? The solution of the problem is easy . As the population in this ...
... fecundity of a marriage in London is , as Mr. Sadler tells us , 2.35 . How many children will the woman in the back settlements bear according to Mr. Sadler's theory ? The solution of the problem is easy . As the population in this ...
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... fecundity of human beings varies inversely as their numbers . How , I ask , can it be evaded ? would be 50 to 420 as What , we ask , is there to evade ? Is 246 50 to 4000 ? Is 331 to 396 as 100 to 500 ? If the law propounded by Mr ...
... fecundity of human beings varies inversely as their numbers . How , I ask , can it be evaded ? would be 50 to 420 as What , we ask , is there to evade ? Is 246 50 to 4000 ? Is 331 to 396 as 100 to 500 ? If the law propounded by Mr ...
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... fecundity of the human race diminishes as population becomes more condensed , -but that the diminution of fecundity bears a very small ratio to the increase of population , so that , while the population on a square mile is multiplied ...
... fecundity of the human race diminishes as population becomes more condensed , -but that the diminution of fecundity bears a very small ratio to the increase of population , so that , while the population on a square mile is multiplied ...
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... fecundity which will keep the population from multiplying till the whole earth is as thick with human beings as St. Giles's parish . If Mr. Sadler denies this , he must hold that , in places less thickly peopled than London , marriages ...
... fecundity which will keep the population from multiplying till the whole earth is as thick with human beings as St. Giles's parish . If Mr. Sadler denies this , he must hold that , in places less thickly peopled than London , marriages ...
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Seite 385 - When a murmuring sound broke out, and swelled into a shout Among the godless horsemen upon the tyrant's right. And hark! like the roar of the billows on the shore, The cry of battle rises along their charging line! For God! for the cause! — for the Church! for the laws!
Seite 260 - said one of his medical attendants, " than you should be from the degree of fever which you have. Is your mind at ease?" "No; it is not," were the last recorded words of Oliver Goldsmith.
Seite 269 - Hervey," said the old philosopher many years later, " was a vicious man ; but he was very kind to me. If you call a dog Hervey, I shall love him.
Seite 429 - To my true king I offered free from stain Courage and faith ; vain faith, and courage vain. For him, I threw lands, honours, wealth, away, And one dear hope, that was more prized than they. For him I languished in a foreign clime, Grey-haired with sorrow in my manhood's prime ; Heard on Lavernia Scargill's whispering trees, And pined by Arno for my lovelier Tees ; Beheld each night my home in fevered sleep, Each morning started from the dream to weep ; Till God, who saw me tried too sorely, gave...
Seite 431 - Without one envious sigh, one anxious scheme, The nether sphere, the fleeting hour resign. Mine is the world of thought, the world of dream, Mine all the past, and all the future mine.
Seite 272 - I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.
Seite 293 - But, in spite of her murmurs and reproaches, he gave an asylum to another lady who was as poor as herself, Mrs. Desmoulins, whose family he had known many years before in Staffordshire. Room was found for the daughter of Mrs. Desmoulins, and for another destitute damsel, who was generally addressed as Miss Carmichael, but whom her generous host called Polly. An old quack doctor named Levett, who bled and dosed coal-heavers and hackney coachmen, and received for fees crusts of bread, bits of bacon,...
Seite 385 - And hark ! like the roar of the billows on the shore, The cry of battle rises along their charging line! For God! for the Cause! for the Church! for the Laws! For Charles King of England, and Rupert of the Rhine...
Seite 72 - Let them be even as the grass growing upon the housetops, which withereth afore it be plucked up ; 7 Whereof the mower filleth not his hand, neither he that bindeth up the sheaves his bosom. 8 So that they who go by say not so much as, The LORD prosper you, we wish you good luck in the name of the LORD.
Seite 315 - Pitt will be one of the first men in Parliament," said a member of the opposition to Fox.