Nature of the material worldLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1834 - Natural history |
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... hearts are pure ! how could something arise out of nothing ? " This reasoning seems , indeed , to have spread * De Rer . Nat . i . 157 . + Sat. iii . 83 . The passage is quoted from M. Anquetil du Perron's Latin version . The reader may ...
... hearts are pure ! how could something arise out of nothing ? " This reasoning seems , indeed , to have spread * De Rer . Nat . i . 157 . + Sat. iii . 83 . The passage is quoted from M. Anquetil du Perron's Latin version . The reader may ...
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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 differ- ent 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 differ- ent forms ; he created fire from his essence , which is ...
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... heart , and a stomach ; and have 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 , however , is ...
... heart , and a stomach ; and have 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 , however , is ...
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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 extremity , " bearing not the least trace of letters . " It was ascertained that the letters had been cut in the year 1672 , more than half a century previously to their discovery within the solid wood . M ...
... heart , that is , in each extremity , " bearing not the least trace of letters . " It was ascertained that the letters had been cut in the year 1672 , more than half a century previously to their discovery within the solid wood . M ...
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acid action already observed animal animal and vegetable appears Aristotle Aristoxenus arteries atmosphere atoms attraction birds blood bodies bones called capable carbone carbonic acid cause chiefly chyle common compound conceived consequence consists constitutes cotyledon curious cuticle Cuvier degree denominated distinct doctrine earth elementary Empedocles Epicurus equally eternal existence fibres fishes fluid formation gastric juice gneiss gravitation harmony heat hence hypothesis infinite divisibility insects instances irritability kind lacteals laws lecture less Lucretius lungs manner mass material matter means mineral minute motion muscles muscular nature organs origin oxyde oxygene particles peculiar perfect perhaps perpetually petrifactions phænomena Phil philosophers plants Plato possess present principle produced properties proportion putrefaction Pythagoras quadrupeds radicles regarded rocks secernent secreted seeds skin solid species stomach substance supposed surface theory thing traced Trans tree tribes vapour variety various veins vessels visible whole worms zoophytes
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Page 40 - 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.
Page 185 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent. Then THY sun...
Page 20 - 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.
Page 18 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Page 60 - 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.