Elementary Biology: Plant, Animal, HumanMacmillan Company, 1912 - 593 من الصفحات |
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abdomen adaptations alcohol animals arteries bacteria bees biology birds blood body bones bottle breathing butterfly called capillaries carbon dioxid cavity cells chlorophyll color composed compound corn cotyledons covered crayfish crops Describe develop digestion dishes egg-cell eggs embryo energy epidermis experiment Fehling's solution fertilized filaments fins fish floral envelopes flowers food substances frog fruit gill glass grain grape sugar growth head inches insects intestine jaws kinds known Label Laboratory Study larvæ layer leaf leaves legs lime water liquid living lungs malaria material membrane microscope mosquito moth mouth muscles nucleus nutrients Optional organs outer ovary ovule oxidation oxygen pairs paramecium piece pistil plants pollen produced protein protoplasm region roots salmon seedling seeds side soil sperm-cells spores stamens starch stem stoma stomach structure surface teeth test tube thistle tube tiny tion tissue trees veins wall wings
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الصفحة 163 - I suppose, have thus suffered; and if I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use.
الصفحة 161 - Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.
الصفحة 161 - Well! he may not count it, and a kind Heaven may not count it; but it is being counted none the less. Down among his nerve cells and fibers the molecules are counting it, registering and storing it up to be used against him when the next temptation comes. Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out. Of course, this has its good side as well as its bad one. As we become permanent drunkards by so many separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts...
الصفحة 24 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left; and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
الصفحة 161 - I won't count this time." Well ! he may not count it, and a kind Heaven may not count it ; but it is being counted none the less. Down among his nerve cells and fibers the molecules are counting it, registering and storing it up to be used against him when the next temptation comes.
الصفحة 91 - AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION. An Act for the Protection of Birds and their Nests and Eggs. Section i. No person shall, within the State of- , kill or catch or have in his or her possession, living or dead, any wild bird other than a...
الصفحة 163 - My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts ; but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive.
الصفحة 162 - Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation, in whatever pursuit he may have singled out..
الصفحة 76 - The use of intoxicants by employes while on duty is prohibited. Their habitual use, or the frequenting of places where they are sold, is sufficient cause for dismissal.
الصفحة 161 - There is a story, which is credible enough, though it may not be true, of a practical joker, who, seeing a discharged veteran carrying home his dinner, suddenly called out, 'Attention!' whereupon the man instantly brought his hands down, and lost his mutton and potatoes in the gutter. The drill had been thorough, and its effects had become embodied in the man's nervous structure...