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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... supposed absurdity in conceiving that any thing could be created out of nothing . The Epicureans , and many other schools of philosophers , who borrowed it from them , perpetually appeal to this position . It was current , however ...
... supposed absurdity in conceiving that any thing could be created out of nothing . The Epicureans , and many other schools of philosophers , who borrowed it from them , perpetually appeal to this position . It was current , however ...
Sivu 32
... supposed , and which we cannot otherwise contemplate or charac terize than by the negative term Spirit , as it is from matter , which is more im- mediately submitted to our eyes , and constitutes the substrate of our own being and ...
... supposed , and which we cannot otherwise contemplate or charac terize than by the negative term Spirit , as it is from matter , which is more im- mediately submitted to our eyes , and constitutes the substrate of our own being and ...
Sivu 33
... supposed stars to have preceded planets in the order of creation ; and that the earth was at first a star , and continued so till rendered opaque by having its bright surface incrusted with grosser and untransparent matter , and drawn ...
... supposed stars to have preceded planets in the order of creation ; and that the earth was at first a star , and continued so till rendered opaque by having its bright surface incrusted with grosser and untransparent matter , and drawn ...
Sivu 34
... supposed habitations of other kinds or orders of intelligent beings , together with the different planets by which it is probable they were sur- rounded , and to which they may have given light and fructifying seasons , as the sun gives ...
... supposed habitations of other kinds or orders of intelligent beings , together with the different planets by which it is probable they were sur- rounded , and to which they may have given light and fructifying seasons , as the sun gives ...
Sivu 35
... supposed to have triumphed over the deluge itself . While there is little doubt that the hard and closely crystallized granitic mountains of every country in which they occur , " the everlasting hills , " to copy a cor- rect and ...
... supposed to have triumphed over the deluge itself . While there is little doubt that the hard and closely crystallized granitic mountains of every country in which they occur , " the everlasting hills , " to copy a cor- rect and ...
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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: