The Book of Nature: From the Last London Ed., to which is Now Prefixed, a Sketch of the Author's LifeBelknap and Hamersley, 1837 - 467 sivua |
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... sometimes conceived to be intelligent in many of its corpuscles , and unintelligent in the rest , as was taught by Democritus ; sometimes intelli- gent as a whole , though unintelligent in its separate parts , as taught both by ...
... sometimes conceived to be intelligent in many of its corpuscles , and unintelligent in the rest , as was taught by Democritus ; sometimes intelli- gent as a whole , though unintelligent in its separate parts , as taught both by ...
Sivu 46
... sometimes repelled from each other by concussion , and sometimes adhering to each other from their own jagged or pointed construction , or from the casual interstices which two or more connected atoms must produce , and which may be ...
... sometimes repelled from each other by concussion , and sometimes adhering to each other from their own jagged or pointed construction , or from the casual interstices which two or more connected atoms must produce , and which may be ...
Sivu 47
... sometimes fire , some- times air , sometimes earth , and sometimes water , has been considered as the sole constituent element or source of things . Sometimes two of these sub- stances have been thus denominated , and sometimes three ...
... sometimes fire , some- times air , sometimes earth , and sometimes water , has been considered as the sole constituent element or source of things . Sometimes two of these sub- stances have been thus denominated , and sometimes three ...
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... sometimes of practical utility in the arts ; little ornaments of laminated silver remaining attached to iron or steel , with which they have been made to connect themselves by the powerful pressure of a blow , so as to form one mass ...
... sometimes of practical utility in the arts ; little ornaments of laminated silver remaining attached to iron or steel , with which they have been made to connect themselves by the powerful pressure of a blow , so as to form one mass ...
Sivu 62
... sometimes united with that of light , and hence rendering it at times capable of opacity . In this diffused state he calls every distinct mass a ne- bulosity ; he conceives all its particles to be subject to the common laws of ...
... sometimes united with that of light , and hence rendering it at times capable of opacity . In this diffused state he calls every distinct mass a ne- bulosity ; he conceives all its particles to be subject to the common laws of ...
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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 Lucretius mankind manner material matter means mind Misor 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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Sivu 427 - his bed ; walks up and down with me; Puts on his pretty looks ; repeats his words ; Remembers me of all his gracious parts ; Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form :— Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Sivu 429 - 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 : Ч is but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and see her stores
Sivu 454 - a sheet of white paper, without characters of any kind, becomes furnished with that vast store of ideas, the materials of wisdom and knowledge, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety ? The
Sivu 336 - • comes the mind by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety ? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge ? 1
Sivu 379 - —It is manifest that a great part of common language and of common behaviour over the world is formed upon the supposition of SUCH A MORAL FACULTY; whether called conscience, moral reason, moral sense, or divine reason; whether considered as a sentiment of the understanding or a perception of the heart, or, which seems the truth, as including
Sivu 405 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, With stores of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize.
Sivu 330 - that brings death to the people. His sword is a green meteor half extinguished. His face is without form and dark. He sighed thrice over the hero ; and thrice the winds of the night roared around. Many were his words to Oscar. He slowly vanished, like a mist that melts on the sunny hill.
Sivu xiii - They are sparks which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves. The surest remedy against scandal is, to live it down by perseverance in well-doing ; and by praying to God that he would cure the distempered minds of those who traduce and injure us.
Sivu 447 - peaceful plains ? Do 1 meet thee with a spear on thy cloud, spirit of dismal Loda ? Why then dost thou frown on me ! Why shake thine airy spear? Thou frownest in vain : I never fled from the mighty in war; and shall the sons of the wind frighten the king of Morven ? No—he knows the
Sivu 360 - all minds? I assert as well as they, that since we are affected from without, we must allow powers to be without in a being distinct from ourselves. So far we are agreed. But then we differ as to the kind of this powerful being. I will have it to be spirit: