The Book of Nature, Volumen2J. & J. Harper, 1828 - 530 páginas |
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Página vii
... Passions 459 X. On the leading Characters and Passions of savage and ci- vilized Life - 469 - 477 XI . On Temperaments and Constitutional Propensities XII . On Pathognomy , or the Expression of the Passions XIII . On Physiognomy and ...
... Passions 459 X. On the leading Characters and Passions of savage and ci- vilized Life - 469 - 477 XI . On Temperaments and Constitutional Propensities XII . On Pathognomy , or the Expression of the Passions XIII . On Physiognomy and ...
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... passions and some of the senses to which this organ gives birth . * Yet though the vessels of plants do not appear to possess any muscular fibres , we have evident proofs of the existence of a contractile and irritable power from some ...
... passions and some of the senses to which this organ gives birth . * Yet though the vessels of plants do not appear to possess any muscular fibres , we have evident proofs of the existence of a contractile and irritable power from some ...
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... passions , and consummate instincts . But where shall we commence the perusal of this volume ? the different pages of which , though each intrinsically interesting , lie scattered , like the sibyl leaves of antiquity , over every part ...
... passions , and consummate instincts . But where shall we commence the perusal of this volume ? the different pages of which , though each intrinsically interesting , lie scattered , like the sibyl leaves of antiquity , over every part ...
Página 230
... passion that in- duces the human mother to hold her offspring whole nights and days in her fond armɛ , and press it to her bosom , unconscious of its future growth to sense and manhood , till observation or tradition have informed her ...
... passion that in- duces the human mother to hold her offspring whole nights and days in her fond armɛ , and press it to her bosom , unconscious of its future growth to sense and manhood , till observation or tradition have informed her ...
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... passions are so many instincts , as fear , hope , envy , benevolence , reverence , superstition , devotion ; and hence life is nothing more than a bundle of instincts ; * and reason , which is itself founded upon an instinctive ...
... passions are so many instincts , as fear , hope , envy , benevolence , reverence , superstition , devotion ; and hence life is nothing more than a bundle of instincts ; * and reason , which is itself founded upon an instinctive ...
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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.