Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, Volumen34American Philosophical Society, 1895 |
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... genus , the maxilla enters largely into the formation of the arch , the jugal is shorter and broader than it is in the other families , and nearly quadrangular , sending up a prolonged postorbital process from its superior border ...
... genus , the maxilla enters largely into the formation of the arch , the jugal is shorter and broader than it is in the other families , and nearly quadrangular , sending up a prolonged postorbital process from its superior border ...
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... genus , as also in some of the other Insectivora , points unmis- takably to the Marsupialia . The horizontal curvature of the arch is sufficient to counteract any inherent weakness due to the vertical curvature with its convexity down ...
... genus , as also in some of the other Insectivora , points unmis- takably to the Marsupialia . The horizontal curvature of the arch is sufficient to counteract any inherent weakness due to the vertical curvature with its convexity down ...
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... genus . " The articular surface of the condyle looks backwards instead of upwards . The angle of the jaw is elongated and thin . The infraorbital is large and bounded pos- teriorly by an osseous bar . The jugal arch in the Rodentia is ...
... genus . " The articular surface of the condyle looks backwards instead of upwards . The angle of the jaw is elongated and thin . The infraorbital is large and bounded pos- teriorly by an osseous bar . The jugal arch in the Rodentia is ...
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... genus Paracetus has been recently proposed by Lydekker * to include members of this family which possess a well - developed series of teeth in the ( ? ) premaxillary and maxillary bones . It is up to the present time represented by one ...
... genus Paracetus has been recently proposed by Lydekker * to include members of this family which possess a well - developed series of teeth in the ( ? ) premaxillary and maxillary bones . It is up to the present time represented by one ...
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... genus is stated by Dr. Lydekker in the text of his description to be as I have cited , but the name Hypocetus stands at the top of the paragraph in which this statement is made , and is also attached to the plate in which it is figured ...
... genus is stated by Dr. Lydekker in the text of his description to be as I have cited , but the name Hypocetus stands at the top of the paragraph in which this statement is made , and is also attached to the plate in which it is figured ...
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Página 232 - Congress, under the pretext of executing its powers pass laws for the accomplishment of objects not intrusted to the government, it would become the painful duty of this tribunal, should a case requiring such a decision come before it, to say that such an act was not the law of the land.
Página 301 - A PERSON is he whose words or actions are considered, either as his own, or as representing the words or actions of another man, or of any other thing to whom they are attributed, whether truly or by fiction.
Página 224 - The final cause, end, or design of men, who naturally love liberty, and dominion over others, in the introduction of that restraint upon themselves, in which we see them live in commonwealths, is the foresight of their own preservation, and of a more contented life thereby...
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Página 224 - The answer will be found in the fact (not less incontestable than either of the others) that, while man is created for the social state and is accordingly so formed as to feel what affects others as well as what affects himself, he is, at the same time, so constituted as to feel more intensely what affects him .directly than what affects him indirectly through others, or, to express it differently, he is so constituted that his direct or individual affections are stronger than his sympathetic or...
Página 223 - It is to be looked on with other reverence ; because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature. It is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.
Página 291 - As when anything is grounded upon the law of nature, they say, that reason will that such a thing be done; and if it be prohibited by the law of nature...
Página 323 - It is good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change, that pretendeth the reformation.