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It reminds one a little of Charles Kingsley's accomplished pupil-teacher, with his glib derivation of amphibious, 'from two Greek words, amphi, the land, and bios, the water. A detailed history of the root 'Chester' in its various British usages may serve to show how far such a rough-and-ready solution as the pupil-teacher's falls short of complete accuracy and comprehensiveness.
"Delicious, by Jove!" ejaculated Clayey, tugging away at the major's flask. "Come, Captain, try it." "Thank you," I replied, eagerly grasping the welcome flask. "But where is old Bios? killed, wounded, or missing?" "I believe the major is not far off, and still uninjured." I despatched a man for the major, who presently came up, blowing and swearing like a Flanders trooper.
Leslie again took her departure, leaving them together, and Lizzie allowed her friend to go, although the last words that Lopez had spoken had been, as he thought, a fair prelude to the words he intended to speak to-day. "And what do you think of it?" he said, taking both her hands in his. "Think of what?" "Of our Spanish venture." "Have you given up Bios, my friend?"
"It will be rectified in London, you know. Some English spirit will perhaps be mixed. But I must not tell you the secrets of the trade till you join us. That Bios is distilled from the bark of the Duffer-tree is a certainty." "Have you drank any?" "I've tasted it." "Is it nice?" "Very nice; rather sweet, you know, and will be the better for mixing." "Gin?" suggested her ladyship.
If a certain new spirit which had just been concocted from the bark of trees in Central Africa, and which was called Bios, could only be made to go up in the market, everything might be satisfactorily arranged. The hoardings of London were already telling the public that if it wished to get drunk without any of the usual troubles of intoxication it must drink Bios.
Aristotle, the rationalist, tells in his Ethics of the superior happiness of the contemplative life, bios theôrêtikos; and all rationalists are wont to place happiness in knowledge.
I get no sleep with these cursed gally-nippers and things; but, stay how many men have you got?" "In my company eighty; but my order is to take only fifty." "There again! I told you so; want me killed they want old Bios killed! Fifty men, when a thousand of the leather-skinned devils have been seen not ten miles off! Fifty men! great heavens! fifty men!
Field of Norwich, with a disquisition, in which he endeavourved to prove that, from a philological point of view, neither Treviranus nor Lamarck had any right to coin this new word "Biology" for their purpose; that, in fact, the Greek word "Bios" had relation only to human life and human affairs, and that a different word was employed by the Greeks when they wished to speak of the life of animals and plants.
Campos, meantime, to prevent Gomez moving eastward, placed 10,000 troops on the border between the provinces of Puerto Principe and Santiago, but Gomez crossed the line on May 19th, after a battle at Boca del Dos Bios, where a loss was suffered in the death of General Marti, which was so great a blow to Cuba that Campos announced that the "death blow to the bandits had been struck."
Field of Norwich, with a disquisition, in which he endeavoured to prove that, from a philological point of view, neither Treviranus nor Lamarck had any right to coin this new word "Biology" for their purpose; that, in fact, the Greek word "Bios" had relation only to human life and human affairs, and that a different word was employed by the Greeks when they wished to speak of the life of animals and plants.
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