THE PHRENOLOGICAL MAGAZINE: A JOURNAL OF EDUCATION AND MENTAL SCIENCE.1882 |
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Page 96 - And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.
Page 364 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind : and it was BO.
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Page 381 - Solenopsis fugax, which makes its chambers and galleries in the walls of the nests of larger species, is the bitter enemy of its hosts. The latter cannot get at them, because they are too large to enter the galleries. The little Solenopsis, therefore, are quite safe, and, as it appears, make incursions into the nurseries of the larger ant, and carry off the larvae as food.
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Page 95 - And when the sun was up, they were scorched: and because they had no root, they withered away. And some fell among thorns: and the thorns sprung up and choked them. But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
Bibliographic information
| Title | THE PHRENOLOGICAL MAGAZINE: A JOURNAL OF EDUCATION AND MENTAL SCIENCE. |
| Author | ALFRED T. STORY |
| Published | 1882 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 9 Nov 2006 |
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