Things You Ought to Know about Yourself: Or, Sketches of Human Physiology1877 - 104 sivua |
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... sense of taste and smell , are located and protected as in a citadel . The bones of the head are twenty - two in number . Of these , eight form the cranium , and fourteen the face . In shape it has been compared to an egg in an ...
... sense of taste and smell , are located and protected as in a citadel . The bones of the head are twenty - two in number . Of these , eight form the cranium , and fourteen the face . In shape it has been compared to an egg in an ...
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... senses ; it fills the mind with a great variety of ideas , converses with its objects at the greatest distance . " The sense of feeling can indeed give us the idea of extension , figure , and all other properties of matter which are ...
... senses ; it fills the mind with a great variety of ideas , converses with its objects at the greatest distance . " The sense of feeling can indeed give us the idea of extension , figure , and all other properties of matter which are ...
Sivu 58
... sense of beauty is almost universal . Had creation contained no colours at all , the world's affairs could still have gone on . Or while colours existed , they might have been of a kind to give us no gratification . But , as if for no ...
... sense of beauty is almost universal . Had creation contained no colours at all , the world's affairs could still have gone on . Or while colours existed , they might have been of a kind to give us no gratification . But , as if for no ...
Sivu 64
... - trumpet , to catch and collect the sounds which are to be sent into the interior . It has been remarked that those whose ears have been cut off have a comparative indistinct sense of hearing 64 Things you Ought to Know .
... - trumpet , to catch and collect the sounds which are to be sent into the interior . It has been remarked that those whose ears have been cut off have a comparative indistinct sense of hearing 64 Things you Ought to Know .
Sivu 65
... sense of hearing , and are obliged either to form a cavity with their own hands , or else to make use of an ear - trum- pet , in order to receive the agitated air . It is like- wise observed that persons whose ears jut out have a ...
... sense of hearing , and are obliged either to form a cavity with their own hands , or else to make use of an ear - trum- pet , in order to receive the agitated air . It is like- wise observed that persons whose ears jut out have a ...
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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.