The Book of Nature, Volumen2J. & J. Harper, 1828 - 530 páginas |
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... combined effect . This , indeed , is to employ these terms in a somewhat wider sense than has been assigned to them in modern times ; for even the Natural Philosophy of Lord Bacon , though it em- braces the two divisions of special ...
... combined effect . This , indeed , is to employ these terms in a somewhat wider sense than has been assigned to them in modern times ; for even the Natural Philosophy of Lord Bacon , though it em- braces the two divisions of special ...
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... combined with it , is the same in the deepest valleys , as on the highest cliffs ; at the equator and at the poles ; the earth's surface , and the height of 21,000 feet above it ; in many of which situations , and especially the more ...
... combined with it , is the same in the deepest valleys , as on the highest cliffs ; at the equator and at the poles ; the earth's surface , and the height of 21,000 feet above it ; in many of which situations , and especially the more ...
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... combination , and essentially possest of the powers of attraction and repulsion . There is such a charm in novelty , that it often leads us captive in de- spite of the most glaring errors , and intoxicates our judgment as fatally as the ...
... combination , and essentially possest of the powers of attraction and repulsion . There is such a charm in novelty , that it often leads us captive in de- spite of the most glaring errors , and intoxicates our judgment as fatally as the ...
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... combined . Anterior to the formation of the universe , space and matter existed uncombined , or in their pure and elementary state . Space , in its elementary state , is abso- lute and perfect void ; matter , in its elementary state ...
... combined . Anterior to the formation of the universe , space and matter existed uncombined , or in their pure and elementary state . Space , in its elementary state , is abso- lute and perfect void ; matter , in its elementary state ...
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... combination , they form earth ; in another , air ; and in another , fire . Arranged in one way , they produce vegetation and irritability ; in another way , animal life and perception . Man hence arises , families are formed , societies ...
... combination , they form earth ; in another , air ; and in another , fire . Arranged in one way , they produce vegetation and irritability ; in another way , animal life and perception . Man hence arises , families are formed , societies ...
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Página 383 - 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 26 - 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 493 - O, that the slave had forty thousand lives ! One is too poor, too weak for my revenge. Now do I see 'tis true. Look here, lago ; All my fond love thus do I blow to heaven : 'Tis gone. Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell ! Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne To tyrannous hate ! Swell, bosom, with thy fraught, For 'tis of aspics
Página 466 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Página 495 - Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance haiL Still would her touch the strain prolong; And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She...
Página 425 - In time the mind comes to reflect on its own operations, about the ideas got by sensation, and thereby stores itself with a new set of ideas, which I call ideas of reflection.
Página 511 - He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plunged to endless night.
Página 34 - 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. Water and earth composed of old worn particles and fragments of 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...
Página 26 - 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.
Página 407 - ... some motion must be thence continued by our nerves, or animal spirits, by some parts of our bodies, to the brains or the seat of sensation, there to produce in our minds the particular ideas we have of them.