The Book of NatureHarper & Brothers, 1834 - 467 pages |
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... heat from the sun . Thus emanating , he conceived it to be the immediate region or reservoir of ideas or intellectual forms , of the archetypes or patterns of things , subsisting by themselves as real beings -- rà vτws övra - in this ...
... heat from the sun . Thus emanating , he conceived it to be the immediate region or reservoir of ideas or intellectual forms , of the archetypes or patterns of things , subsisting by themselves as real beings -- rà vτws övra - in this ...
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... heat . We can , hence , it is said , form no conception of perfect solidity ; and every phenomenon in nature appears to disprove its existence . The minutest cor- puscle we can operate upon is still capable of a minuter division , and ...
... heat . We can , hence , it is said , form no conception of perfect solidity ; and every phenomenon in nature appears to disprove its existence . The minutest cor- puscle we can operate upon is still capable of a minuter division , and ...
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... heat are compounds of them ; and so solid , that they cannot possibly be broken or abraded by any concussion or violence whatever . The express figure of these primary atoms is various : there are round , square , pointed , jagged , as ...
... heat are compounds of them ; and so solid , that they cannot possibly be broken or abraded by any concussion or violence whatever . The express figure of these primary atoms is various : there are round , square , pointed , jagged , as ...
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... Heat . " It is a doctrine , also , peculiarly coincident with Dr. Herschel's recent theory of nebulæ , or milky ways in the heavens , which , contrary to his own earlier opinions , and those of former astronomers , who ascribed such ...
... Heat . " It is a doctrine , also , peculiarly coincident with Dr. Herschel's recent theory of nebulæ , or milky ways in the heavens , which , contrary to his own earlier opinions , and those of former astronomers , who ascribed such ...
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... heat or fire , mankind are just as uninformed now as they were then . In the process , however , of destroying these supposed elements , chemistry has occasionally seemed to detect others ; and hence , instead of air , fire , earth ...
... heat or fire , mankind are just as uninformed now as they were then . In the process , however , of destroying these supposed elements , chemistry has occasionally seemed to detect others ; and hence , instead of air , fire , earth ...
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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.