 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Evolution (Biology) - 1870 - 448 pages
...up the head at one end, the tail at the other, and fashioning flank and limb into due salamandrine proportions, in so artistic a way, that, after watching...some more subtle aid to vision than an achromatic, would show the hidden artist, with his plan before him, striving with skilful manipulation to perfect... | |
 | 1899 - 998 pages
...the head at one end and the tail at the other, and fashioning flank and limb into due salamandrine proportions, in so artistic a way that, after watching...some more subtle aid to vision than an achromatic would show the hidden artist, with his plan before him, striving with skillful manipulation to perfect... | |
 | Criticism - 1873 - 808 pages
...the marks of apparent design at each successive step of the process, he closes with the remark : " One is almost involuntarily possessed by the notion,...some more subtle aid to vision, than an achromatic, would show the hidden artist, with his plan before him, striving with skillful manipulation to perfect... | |
 | Borden Parker Bowne - 1874 - 294 pages
...the language. Mr. Huxley, too, in speaking of the development of a salamander from the egg, says : " After watching the process, hour by hour, one is almost...some more subtle aid to vision than an achromatic would show the hidden artist, with his plan before him, striving with skillful manipulation to perfect... | |
 | Borden Parker Bowne - 1874 - 300 pages
...the language. Mr. Huxley, too, in speaking of the development of a salamander from the egg, says : " After watching the process, hour by hour, one is almost...some more subtle aid to vision than an achromatic would show the hidden artist, with his plan before him, striving with skillful manipulation to perfect... | |
 | Robert Watts - Biology - 1875 - 84 pages
...head at the one end and the tail at the other, and fashioning flank and limb into due salamandrine proportions in so artistic a way, that, after watching...some more subtle aid to vision than an achromatic would show the hidden artist, with his plan before him, striving with skilful manipulation to perfect... | |
 | Sabine Baring-Gould - Good and evil - 1875 - 200 pages
...the other, and fashioning flank and limb into due salamandrine proportions, in so artistic a fashion, that, after watching the process hour by hour, one...some more subtle aid to vision than an achromatic lens would show the hidden artist, with his plan before him, striving with skilful manipulation to... | |
 | Sabine Baring Gould - 1875 - 210 pages
...the other, and fashioning flank and limb into due salamandrine proportions, in so artistic a fashion, that, after watching the process hour by hour, one...some more subtle aid to vision than an achromatic lens would show the hidden artist, with his plan before him, striving with skilful manipulation to... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - English periodicals - 1885 - 524 pages
...occupied by the spinal column, and moulded the contour of the body .... fashioning flank and limb into due proportions in so artistic a way, that, after watching...almost involuntarily possessed by the notion that the Duke of Argyll does not introduce the comparison is perhaps due to a desire to avoid the semblance... | |
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... of the nascent organism. And, then, it is as if a delicate finger traced out the line to be occupied by the spinal column, and moulded the contour of the body ; pinching up the head at one end, the tail at the other, and fashioning flank and limb... 
