British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 10Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1821 |
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... matter , motion , structure , and figures of bodies , and their parts , according to the settled laws of na- ture . See MECHANICS . PHYSIOGNOMY , is the peculiar com- bination of features , which designates the feelings and dispositions ...
... matter , motion , structure , and figures of bodies , and their parts , according to the settled laws of na- ture . See MECHANICS . PHYSIOGNOMY , is the peculiar com- bination of features , which designates the feelings and dispositions ...
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... matter , and even to act on sur- rounding objects in a manner quite con- trary to these laws , we employ the ex- pressions of life and vital power to de- signate these at least apparent exceptions to general rules . Our only method of ...
... matter , and even to act on sur- rounding objects in a manner quite con- trary to these laws , we employ the ex- pressions of life and vital power to de- signate these at least apparent exceptions to general rules . Our only method of ...
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... matter . Yet the operation of the latter can be clearly dis- cerned in many instances in the animal economy ; thus the humours of the eye variously affect the rays of light , according to their figure and density : and the me- chanical ...
... matter . Yet the operation of the latter can be clearly dis- cerned in many instances in the animal economy ; thus the humours of the eye variously affect the rays of light , according to their figure and density : and the me- chanical ...
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... matter , each par- ticle has it within itself . When this nature of life was once clearly recognised by the most constant of its effects , physiologists naturally at- tempted to discover its origin , and the mode of its communication to ...
... matter , each par- ticle has it within itself . When this nature of life was once clearly recognised by the most constant of its effects , physiologists naturally at- tempted to discover its origin , and the mode of its communication to ...
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... matter furnished by the animal and vegetable kingdoms . The food of man , and probably of every animal , is derived from organized matter . Nothing seems capable of furnishing nourishment that has not lived : the mi- neral kingdom ...
... matter furnished by the animal and vegetable kingdoms . The food of man , and probably of every animal , is derived from organized matter . Nothing seems capable of furnishing nourishment that has not lived : the mi- neral kingdom ...
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The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ..., Volume 10 William Nicholson Affichage du livre entier - 1818 |
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