The Book of Nature, Volumen2J. & J. Harper, 1828 - 530 páginas |
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... hearts are pure ! how could something arise out of nothing ? " § This reasoning seems , indeed , to have spread almost universally , and perhaps from the same quarter ; for we find many of the Jewish theolo- gians , and not a few of the ...
... hearts are pure ! how could something arise out of nothing ? " § This reasoning seems , indeed , to have spread almost universally , and perhaps from the same quarter ; for we find many of the Jewish theolo- gians , and not a few of the ...
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... hearts are pure ! how could something arise out of nothing ? This First Being alone , and without likeness , was the ALL in the beginning : he could multiply himself under different forms ; he created fire from his essence , which is ...
... hearts are pure ! how could something arise out of nothing ? This First Being alone , and without likeness , was the ALL in the beginning : he could multiply himself under different forms ; he created fire from his essence , which is ...
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... heart , and a stomach ; and have very obligingly permitted them to possess ideas , and the means of communicating ideas ; to fall in love and to marry , and thus far to exercise the distinctive faculty of volition . The whole of which ...
... heart , and a stomach ; and have very obligingly permitted them to possess ideas , and the means of communicating ideas ; to fall in love and to marry , and thus far to exercise the distinctive faculty of volition . The whole of which ...
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... heart of the timber on its being subdivided . Some of these memorials are very curious , and M. Klein , the well- known Secretary of Dantzic , has given various examples in his letter to Sir Hans Sloane , bart . , the President of the ...
... heart of the timber on its being subdivided . Some of these memorials are very curious , and M. Klein , the well- known Secretary of Dantzic , has given various examples in his letter to Sir Hans Sloane , bart . , the President of the ...
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... heart , that is , in each extre- mity , " bearing not the least trace of letters . " M. Klein relates another example from the Ephemerides of Natural Curiosities , * recorded by Joan- nes Myerus . It consists of a thief hanging from a ...
... heart , that is , in each extre- mity , " bearing not the least trace of letters . " M. Klein relates another example from the Ephemerides of Natural Curiosities , * recorded by Joan- nes Myerus . It consists of a thief hanging from a ...
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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.