The Book of Nature, Volumen1Wells and Lilly, 1826 |
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... , and muscular Motion ......... ....... 233 XI . On the Bones , Cartilages , Teeth , Hair , Wool , Silk , Feathers , and other hard or solid Parts of the Animal Frame ......... 267 Lect . XII . On the Digestive Function , and.
... , and muscular Motion ......... ....... 233 XI . On the Bones , Cartilages , Teeth , Hair , Wool , Silk , Feathers , and other hard or solid Parts of the Animal Frame ......... 267 Lect . XII . On the Digestive Function , and.
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... bones of elephants , approaching to both the Asiatic and the African species ; horns of deer , apparently as enormous as those dug up in Ireland ; bones of the bos genus ; and teeth and bones of the hippopotamus ; the last very abundant ...
... bones of elephants , approaching to both the Asiatic and the African species ; horns of deer , apparently as enormous as those dug up in Ireland ; bones of the bos genus ; and teeth and bones of the hippopotamus ; the last very abundant ...
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... bones of man are as capable of preservation as those of any other animal : the only known instance of this sort being that imported into our own country from Guadaloupe by Sir Alexander Cochrane , and which is now exhibited in the ...
... bones of man are as capable of preservation as those of any other animal : the only known instance of this sort being that imported into our own country from Guadaloupe by Sir Alexander Cochrane , and which is now exhibited in the ...
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... bones , or any other animal organs , and which is seldom or never observed from burnt vegetable substances of a decided and unquestionable character . Am- monia , however , upon destructive distillation , is met with in small quantities ...
... bones , or any other animal organs , and which is seldom or never observed from burnt vegetable substances of a decided and unquestionable character . Am- monia , however , upon destructive distillation , is met with in small quantities ...
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... bones , by St. Pierre to that of human excre- ment . * So the cascarilla bark and castor oil are - * Mr. Marshall's account delivered to the Royal Society . See Thomson's Annals , Sept. p . 242 . obtained from plants poisonous in some ...
... bones , by St. Pierre to that of human excre- ment . * So the cascarilla bark and castor oil are - * Mr. Marshall's account delivered to the Royal Society . See Thomson's Annals , Sept. p . 242 . obtained from plants poisonous in some ...
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Página 32 - 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 143 - 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 55 - 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 34 - Wisdom's mien celestial. From the first Of days, on them his love divine he fix'd, His admiration : till in time complete, What he admired and loved, his vital smile Unfolded into being. Hence the breath Of life informing each organic frame, Hence the green earth, and wild resounding waves; Hence light and shade alternate ; warmth and cold ; And clear autumnal skies, and vernal showers, And all the fair variety of things.
Página 335 - Nothing is foreign; parts relate to whole; One all-extending, all-preserving soul Connects each being, greatest with the least, Made beast in aid of man, and man of beast; All served, all serving; nothing stands alone; The chain holds on, and where it ends unknown.
Página 9 - Men suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.
Página 55 - 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 in the various Separations and new Associations and Motions of these permanent Particles; compound Bodies being apt to break, not in the midst of solid Particles, but where those Particles are laid together, and only touch in a few Points.
Página 54 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...
Página 32 - 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 8 - 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...