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There are, however, other kinds of monstrous births, which neither depend on deficiency of parts, or supernumerary ones; nor are owing to the conjunction of animals of different species; but which appear to be new conformations, or new dispositions of parts in respect to each other, and which, like the variation of colours and forms of our domesticated animals, and probably the sexual parts of all animals, may depend on the imagination of the male parent, which we now come to consider.
— from Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I by Erasmus Darwin
The introduction of numbers, by this construction, offers no difficulties of principle—except, indeed, those which always attend the application of number to continua—and may be studied satisfactorily in Klein's Nicht-Euklid (I. p. 337 ff.).
— from An essay on the foundations of geometry by Bertrand Russell
Defective or irregular blood-supply to the bone a cause of navicular disease Definition of acute laminitis of acute simple coronitis of brittle hoof of canker of chronic coronitis of chronic laminitis of club-foot of contracted foot of corn of coronary contraction of the foot of crooked foot of curved hoof of false quarter of flat-foot of keraphyllocele of nail-bound of navicular disease of pumiced foot of punctured foot of pyramidal disease of quittor of ringed hoof of sand-crack of seedy-toe of side-bone of simple chronic coronitis of specific coronitis of spongy hoof of sub-horny quittor of thrush of weak heels Development of the hoof Diagnosis of acute laminitis of canker of foot lameness by injections of cocaine of navicular disease of punctured foot of pyramidal disease of side-bone of sub-horny quittor Differential diagnosis in canker in navicular disease Diseases arising from faulty conformation Dislocation of the os coronæ recorded case of Dislocations Dry corn Einsiedel's expansion shoe
— from Diseases of the Horse's Foot by H. Caulton (Harry Caulton) Reeks
We might soon become like spoiled children, or nerveless drones, or pampered aristocrats.
— from Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. by G. S. (George Sumner) Weaver
He was opposed to the increase of taxation and creation of new debts, on principle.
— from The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes by J. Q. (James Quay) Howard
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