The Book of NatureJ. & J. Harper, 1831 - 467 páginas |
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... minute seeds or atoms , so small that the corpuscles of vapour , light , and heat are compounds of them ; and so solid , that they cannot possibly be broken or abraded by any concussion or violence whatever . The express figure of these ...
... minute seeds or atoms , so small that the corpuscles of vapour , light , and heat are compounds of them ; and so solid , that they cannot possibly be broken or abraded by any concussion or violence whatever . The express figure of these ...
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... minute particles unity ; sometimes forming new stars by its condensation , and often feeding and regenerating those that are exhausted . Such is a brief survey of the chief theories of the primitive or elementary substance of matter ...
... minute particles unity ; sometimes forming new stars by its condensation , and often feeding and regenerating those that are exhausted . Such is a brief survey of the chief theories of the primitive or elementary substance of matter ...
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... minute to be detected by any operation of the senses . Of the shape or magnitude of these particles we know nothing : and even their solidity and impenetrability , as I then observed , is rather an assumption for the purpose of avoiding ...
... minute to be detected by any operation of the senses . Of the shape or magnitude of these particles we know nothing : and even their solidity and impenetrability , as I then observed , is rather an assumption for the purpose of avoiding ...
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... minute and miscroscopic animals , that many of these are as complicated in their structure as the elephant or the whale . GRAVITATION is the common basis upon which all the preceding properties are built , except passivity ; the great ...
... minute and miscroscopic animals , that many of these are as complicated in their structure as the elephant or the whale . GRAVITATION is the common basis upon which all the preceding properties are built , except passivity ; the great ...
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... minute and elaborate divi- sion of the particles of this material that we can give to the attraction of gravitation a predominancy . The same result occurs in the homogeneous particles of oil . And hence , if we divide its particles by ...
... minute and elaborate divi- sion of the particles of this material that we can give to the attraction of gravitation a predominancy . The same result occurs in the homogeneous particles of oil . And hence , if we divide its particles by ...
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Página 339 - 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 preeminence 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 434 - When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, Her bow across her shoulder flung, Her buskins gemm'd with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known...
Página 317 - The poet's bays and critic's ivy grow : Cremona now shall ever boast thy name, As next in place to Mantua, next in fame...
Página 31 - Who knows but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind...
Página 458 - 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 364 - 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 263 - But cawing rooks, and kites that swim sublime In still repeated circles, screaming loud, The jay, the pie, and e'en the boding owl, That hails the rising moon, have charms for me.
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 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.