The Book of NatureHarper & Brothers, 1834 - 467 páginas |
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Página 91
... skin , which , though totally destitute of such fibres , is almost for ever contracting or relaxing upon the application of a variety of other powers ; powers external and internal , and totally different in their mode of operation ...
... skin , which , though totally destitute of such fibres , is almost for ever contracting or relaxing upon the application of a variety of other powers ; powers external and internal , and totally different in their mode of operation ...
Página 92
... skins of the casuarina , and shells of the cocoa - nut . Thus the vegetable mould becomes enriched with animal materials ; and the whole surface is progressively covered with herbage , shaded by forests of cocoa and other trees , and ...
... skins of the casuarina , and shells of the cocoa - nut . Thus the vegetable mould becomes enriched with animal materials ; and the whole surface is progressively covered with herbage , shaded by forests of cocoa and other trees , and ...
Página 96
... skin . But perhaps the laurus , as a genus , offers us the most extensive variety of substances of different qualities . This elegant plant , in one of its species , gives us the cinnamon tree ; in another , the cassia , or wild ...
... skin . But perhaps the laurus , as a genus , offers us the most extensive variety of substances of different qualities . This elegant plant , in one of its species , gives us the cinnamon tree ; in another , the cassia , or wild ...
Página 108
... skin is not fibrous but is highly irritable . Hence solids and fluids are equally necessary to the perfection of the living system . Food , air , and the ethereal gases , caloric , oxygen , and the medium of electricity , are the ...
... skin is not fibrous but is highly irritable . Hence solids and fluids are equally necessary to the perfection of the living system . Food , air , and the ethereal gases , caloric , oxygen , and the medium of electricity , are the ...
Página 112
... skin or crusta- ceous covering , and secrete a new one . The muscular elasticity of the young spider gives it , moreover , the power of wings ; whence it is often seen , in the autumn , ascending to a considerable elevation , wafted ...
... skin or crusta- ceous covering , and secrete a new one . The muscular elasticity of the young spider gives it , moreover , the power of wings ; whence it is often seen , in the autumn , ascending to a considerable elevation , wafted ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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 living Lucretius mankind manner material matter means mind 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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Página 331 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
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 392 - HAPPINESS ! our being's end and aim ! Good, Pleasure, Ease, Content ! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts th' eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die...
Página 36 - 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 325 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored mind Sees GOD in clouds, or hears Him in the wind ; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Página xxi - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Página 401 - Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe, And in thy right hand lead with thee, The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty...
Página 70 - 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 450 - Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety?
Página 425 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's 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; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.