The Book of NatureJ. & J. Harper, 1837 - 467 páginas |
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Página 39
... observed , had been educated in the Platonic school , and had imbibed his notions , regarded this doctrine as of divine origin ; and endeavoured , though preposterously , to blend the trinity of Plato , and that of the Christian ...
... observed , had been educated in the Platonic school , and had imbibed his notions , regarded this doctrine as of divine origin ; and endeavoured , though preposterously , to blend the trinity of Plato , and that of the Christian ...
Página 43
... observed , to lie one within another , like the different tunics of an onion : - These spheres behold : the first in wide embrace Surrounds the lesser orbs of various face ; The EMPYREAN this , the holiest heaven , To the pure spirits ...
... observed , to lie one within another , like the different tunics of an onion : - These spheres behold : the first in wide embrace Surrounds the lesser orbs of various face ; The EMPYREAN this , the holiest heaven , To the pure spirits ...
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... observed , is rather an assumption for the purpose of avoiding seve- ral striking difficulties and absurdities that follow from a denial of these qualities , than an ascertained and established fact . From this unsatisfactory view of it ...
... observed , is rather an assumption for the purpose of avoiding seve- ral striking difficulties and absurdities that follow from a denial of these qualities , than an ascertained and established fact . From this unsatisfactory view of it ...
Página 52
... observed , are immoveable , and cannot , therefore , either approach or recede . IMPENETRABILITY is the result of density , as density is of extension . It is that property in matter which prevents two bodies from occupying the same ...
... observed , are immoveable , and cannot , therefore , either approach or recede . IMPENETRABILITY is the result of density , as density is of extension . It is that property in matter which prevents two bodies from occupying the same ...
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... observed that , owing to its passivity , or VIS INERTIE , matter has a tendency to persevere in any given state , whether of motion or of rest , till opposed by some exterior power ; and that the path it assumes must necessarily be that ...
... observed that , owing to its passivity , or VIS INERTIE , matter has a tendency to persevere in any given state , whether of motion or of rest , till opposed by some exterior power ; and that the path it assumes must necessarily be that ...
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action adverted already observed animals appears Aristotle atmosphere attraction birds blood body brain called capable carbon carbonic acid character chiefly colour common consequence consists constitutes cotyledon curious cuticle Cuvier degree denominated distinct doctrine earth Empedocles Epicurus equally existence fact faculty fibres fishes fluid former gastric juice genus Greece Greek heart heat hence human Humphry Davy hypothesis ideas insects instances instinct integument intelligence kind lacteals language larynx lecture less Lucretius lungs mankind manner material matter means mind motion muscles muscular nature never objects occasionally organs origin oxygen particles passions peculiar perfect perhaps perpetually petrifactions philosophers physiologists plants Plato possess present principle produced proof proportion prove putrefaction Pythagoras quadrupeds racters reason respect rocks secreted sensation skin solid species stomach substance supposed term theory thing tion traced tribes variety various vegetable vessels whence whole worms zoophytes
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Página xii - And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
Página 360 - When in broad daylight I open my eyes, it is not in my power to choose whether I shall see or no, or to determine what particular objects shall present themselves to my view; and so likewise as to the hearing and other senses, the ideas imprinted on them are not creatures of my will. There is therefore some other Will or Spirit that produces them.
Página 46 - While the Particles continue entire, they may compose Bodies of one and the same Nature and Texture in all Ages : But should they wear away, or break in pieces, the Nature of Things depending on them would be changed.
Página 39 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead. Then cold and hot and moist and dry In order to their stations leap, And Music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Página 80 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens...
Página 406 - Come, pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of cypress lawn Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come; but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes...
Página 47 - Particles, would not be of the same Nature and Texture now, with Water and Earth composed of entire Particles in the Beginning. And therefore, that Nature may be lasting, the Changes of corporeal Things are to be placed only in the various Separations and new Associations and Motions of these permanent Particles; compound Bodies being apt to break, not in the midst of solid Particles, but where those Particles are laid together, and only touch in a few Points.
Página 445 - Raised by thy breath, has quench'd the orb of day ? To-morrow he repairs the golden flood And warms the nations with redoubled ray. Enough for me : with joy I see The different doom our fates assign: Be thine Despair and sceptred Care, To triumph and to die are mine.
Página 454 - Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact; One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman; the lover, all as frantic. Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt; The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling.
Página 429 - Down dropt, and all the faded roses shed : Speechless he stood and pale, till thus at length First to himself he inward silence broke.