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Chance has preserved to us the notes of this first course; the MS. is now in the British Museum and was published in facsimile by the college in 1886. William Harvey: Prelectiones Anatomiae Universalis, London, J. & A. Churchill, 1886.
My Historia Stirpium Plantarum Utriusque Orbis stands as a grand fragment of the Flora Universalis Terrae, and as a branch of my Systema Naturae. I believe that I have therein not merely augmented, at a moderate calculation, the amount of known species, more than one-third, but have done something for the Natural System, and for the Geography of Plants. I shall labor diligently at my Fauna.
Thus, while the ash bears no fruit, the Eddas describe the stars as the fruit of Yggdrasil." Mr. Thorpe, again, considers it identical with the "Robur Jovis," or sacred oak of Geismar, destroyed by Boniface, and the Irminsul of the Saxons, the Columna Universalis, "the terrestrial tree of offerings, an emblem of the whole world."
Cranly turned his pale face to Stephen and said blandly and bitterly: PER PAX UNIVERSALIS. Stephen pointed to the Tsar's photograph and said: He has the face of a besotted Christ. The scorn and anger in his voice brought Cranly's eyes back from a calm survey of the walls of the hall. Are you annoyed? he asked. No, answered Stephen. Are you in bad humour? No.
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