The Book of NatureHarper & Brothers, 1834 - 467 pages |
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... attraction and repulsion . There is such a charm in novelty , that it often leads us captive in despite of the most glaring errors , and intoxicates our judgment as fatally as the cup of Circe . It is upon this ground alone we can ...
... attraction and repulsion . There is such a charm in novelty , that it often leads us captive in despite of the most glaring errors , and intoxicates our judgment as fatally as the cup of Circe . It is upon this ground alone we can ...
Page 45
... attraction and repulsion . But powers must be the powers of something : what is this something to which these powers are thus said to appertain ? If the ultimate and inextended points be- fore us have nothing but these powers , and be ...
... attraction and repulsion . But powers must be the powers of something : what is this something to which these powers are thus said to appertain ? If the ultimate and inextended points be- fore us have nothing but these powers , and be ...
Page 53
... attraction by which bodies of all kinds act upon each other , with a force regulated by the aggregate proportion of their respective quantities of matter , and decreasing as the squares of the distances increase . It is a law impressed ...
... attraction by which bodies of all kinds act upon each other , with a force regulated by the aggregate proportion of their respective quantities of matter , and decreasing as the squares of the distances increase . It is a law impressed ...
Page 54
... attraction of the volcanic sphere from which it has been launched does impede it , and equally so from every point of its surface : the consequence of which must necessarily be , that every step it advances over the parent orb it must ...
... attraction of the volcanic sphere from which it has been launched does impede it , and equally so from every point of its surface : the consequence of which must necessarily be , that every step it advances over the parent orb it must ...
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... attraction , varying like the attraction of gravitation . The hypothesis in connexion with the existence * Dr. Young's Lect . vol . i . p . 612 . † Optics , pref . to the second edition . of a repulsive force in common matter has a ...
... attraction , varying like the attraction of gravitation . The hypothesis in connexion with the existence * Dr. Young's Lect . vol . i . p . 612 . † Optics , pref . to the second edition . of a repulsive force in common matter has a ...
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The Book of Nature: From the Last London Ed., to which is Now Prefixed, a ... John Mason Good Affichage du livre entier - 1837 |
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action adverted already observed animals appears Aristotle birds blood body brain called capable carbonic acid character chiefly colour common consequence consists constitutes Cuvier degree denominated derived distinct doctrine earth Epicurus equally existence external senses fact faculty farther feeling fishes fluid former gastric juice genus glottis Greek happiness heart heat hence hippopotamus human hypothesis ideas important innate ideas insects instances instinct intelligence kind knowledge lacteals language larynx Lect lecture less living Lucretius mankind manner material matter means mind moral muscles nature never objects occasionally organs origin oxygen passions peculiar perfect perhaps perpetually petrifactions philosophers physiologists plants Plato possess present principle produced proof prove Pythagoras quadrupeds racters reason respect sensation solid soul species stomach substance supposed taste term theory thing tion traced tribes truth variety various vegetable ventriloquism whence whole words worms zoophytes
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Page 331 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Page xii - And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked ; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
Page 392 - HAPPINESS ! our being's end and aim ! Good, Pleasure, Ease, Content ! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts th' eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die...
Page 36 - While the particles continue entire, they may compose bodies of one and the same nature and texture in all ages ; but should they wear away or break in pieces, the nature of things depending on them would be changed.
Page 325 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored mind Sees GOD in clouds, or hears Him in the wind ; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Page xxi - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Page 401 - Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe, And in thy right hand lead with thee, The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty...
Page 70 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens...
Page 450 - Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety?
Page 425 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.