Things You Ought to Know about Yourself: Or, Sketches of Human Physiology1877 - 104 sivua |
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... delicate in struc- ture , and not very well understood . Its surface is composed of grey matter , folded or convoluted , and copiously supplied with blood . Within this grey pulpy substance is a white mass of similar character . The ...
... delicate in struc- ture , and not very well understood . Its surface is composed of grey matter , folded or convoluted , and copiously supplied with blood . Within this grey pulpy substance is a white mass of similar character . The ...
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... delicate film all other parts of the eye would be perfectly useless . That we should have two eyes is a most admirable provision , because it enables us to take in a larger angle or space , being nearly as good as having one eye of ...
... delicate film all other parts of the eye would be perfectly useless . That we should have two eyes is a most admirable provision , because it enables us to take in a larger angle or space , being nearly as good as having one eye of ...
Sivu 57
... delicate and diffusive kind of touch , which spreads itself over an infinite multitude of bodies , comprehends the largest figures , and brings within our reach some of the remotest parts of the universe . E We cannot , indeed , have a ...
... delicate and diffusive kind of touch , which spreads itself over an infinite multitude of bodies , comprehends the largest figures , and brings within our reach some of the remotest parts of the universe . E We cannot , indeed , have a ...
Sivu 61
... delicate machinery of these two organs affords abundant proof of design and in- telligence . All bodies giving forth sound are in a state of vibration , and produce in the air a series of waves , by which the sound is carried to a great ...
... delicate machinery of these two organs affords abundant proof of design and in- telligence . All bodies giving forth sound are in a state of vibration , and produce in the air a series of waves , by which the sound is carried to a great ...
Sivu 64
... delicate fibrils of a nerve spread out on a thin membrane lining the cavity . When the admirable workmanship of the eye was described , it was comparatively easy to point out the use of every part . The ear is a contrivance scarcely ...
... delicate fibrils of a nerve spread out on a thin membrane lining the cavity . When the admirable workmanship of the eye was described , it was comparatively easy to point out the use of every part . The ear is a contrivance scarcely ...
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Sivu 98 - For take an example of a dog, and mark what a generosity and courage he will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God, or melior natura, which courage is manifestly such as that creature, without that confidence, of a better nature than his own could never attain. i io OF ATHEISM. So man, when he resteth and assureth himself upon divine protection and favour, gathereth a force and faith which human nature in itself could not obtain.
Sivu 59 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me...
Sivu 60 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Sivu 97 - They that deny a God destroy man's nobility ; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body ; and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.
Sivu 60 - How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them ! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand : When I awake, I am still with thee.
Sivu 97 - God, but those for whom it maketh that there were no God. It appeareth in nothing more, that atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man, than by this, that atheists will ever be talking of that their opinion,. as if they fainted in it within themselves...
Sivu 98 - Being, whose justice, goodness, wisdom, and veracity, are all concerned in this great point. But among these and other excellent arguments for the immortality of the soul, there is one drawn from the perpetual progress of the soul to its perfection, without a possibility of ever arriving at it...
Sivu 98 - Are such abilities made for no purpose ? A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is...
Sivu 13 - Twas a skull Once of ethereal spirit full. This narrow cell was Life's retreat, This space was Thought's mysterious seat. What beauteous visions filled this spot, What dreams of pleasure long forgot? Nor hope, nor joy, nor love, nor fear, Have left one trace of record here.