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Again we read: "Domestic instincts are sometimes spoken of as actions which have become inherited solely from long-continued and compulsory habit, but this, I think, is not true." Ibid., p. 214. I am not aware that Lamarck advanced the doctrine that instinct is inherited habit, but he may have done so in some work that I have not seen.
Branch, in a letter dated May 31st, 1831, addressed to certain citizens of Bertie County, North Carolina, declared that "discord had been introduced into the ranks of the administration by the intrigues of selfish politicians." See Niles' Weekly Register, vol. XL., pp. 129-145. Ibid., pp. 152-3. Niles' Register, vol. XL., p. 201. Ibid., p. 220. Ibid., p. 253. The Attorney-General, Mr.
American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. iii. p. 104. American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. iii. p. 158. Jonathan Russell to the Secretary of State, Nov. 15, 1811. U.S. State Department MSS. American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. iii. pp. 154, 160. Ibid., p. 166. The British Commissioners to Monroe and Pinkney, Nov. 8, 1806. Ibid., p. 140.
Ibid., p. 82. Ibid., p. 83. While these words, to some extent, were the rationalizations of an old man, Bessemer's career showed that his philosophy had a practical foundation; and, if this was indeed his belief, the episode explains in large measure Bessemer's later insistence on the legal niceties of the patent procedure. The effect of this will be seen.
There may be much more mischief in the delicate unrealities of a fashionable preacher, or in many a smooth sentimental treatise on the religious affections. The Ideal, etc., pp. 587, 305. Ibid. p. 305. Ideal, p 286. British Critic October 1841, p. 340. No. 90, with the explanations of it given by Mr.
William Harvey, Anatomical Excercises on the Generation of Animals, trans. Robert Willis, London, 1847, p. 462. Ibid., pp. 336-339. Works of William Harvey, trans. Robert Willis, London, 1847, pp. lxx-lxxi. Harvey, op. cit., pp. 462-463. Ibid., p. 457. F. J. Cole, Early Theories of Sexual Generation, Oxford, 1930, p. 140. Thomas Browne, The Works, ed. Geoffrey Keynes, Chicago, 1964, I, 261-262.
Swift. Odious dog; and so are all his descendants. Duke Hamilton. Swift. An arrant Scot. Ibid. Clarendon. Swift. What! in Scotland? About this time the councils at Westminster lost a principal supporter, by the death of John Pym; who died with great torment and agony of a disease unusual, and therefore the more spoken of, morbus pediculosus, as was reported. Swift.
Ibid. The custom of HELPING ONESELF has its sanction in the remotest antiquity, and has been continued down to the present day in the highest places, and by those whom it especially behoves to set example to the world.
'The maxim of science, he says, 'is that of common-sense simple cases first; begin with seeing how the main force acts when there is as little as possible to impede it, and when you thoroughly comprehend that, add to it in succession the separate effects of each of the encumbering and interfering agencies. Ibid., p. 98.
Before May 15-25, 1669, in fact on April 14, Marsilly had been kidnaped by agents of Louis XIV., and his doom was dight. Here is the account of the matter, written to by Perwich in Paris: Ibid., p. 281. Ibid., p. 285. "W. Perwich to "Paris, May 25, '69. "Honored Sir,
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