Nature of the material worldLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1834 - Natural history |
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... minute seeds or atoms , so small that the corpuscles of vapour , light , and heat are compounds of them ; and so solid , that they cannot possibly be broken or abraded by any concussion or violence whatever . The express figure of these ...
... minute seeds or atoms , so small that the corpuscles of vapour , light , and heat are compounds of them ; and so solid , that they cannot possibly be broken or abraded by any concussion or violence whatever . The express figure of these ...
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... minute particles unity ; sometimes forming new stars by its condensation , and often feeding and regenerating those that are exhausted . Such is a brief survey of the chief theories of the primitive or elementary substance of matter ...
... minute particles unity ; sometimes forming new stars by its condensation , and often feeding and regenerating those that are exhausted . Such is a brief survey of the chief theories of the primitive or elementary substance of matter ...
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... minute to be detected by any oper- ation of the senses . Of the shape or magnitude of these particles we know nothing : and even their solidity and impenetrability , as I then observed , is rather an assumption , for the purpose of ...
... minute to be detected by any oper- ation of the senses . Of the shape or magnitude of these particles we know nothing : and even their solidity and impenetrability , as I then observed , is rather an assumption , for the purpose of ...
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... minutes , and 22 seconds . And a body projected from the earth , in any direction , with a velocity of 7 miles per second , would never return . The moon is supposed to have no atmosphere , or , at the utmost , one rarer than we can ...
... minutes , and 22 seconds . And a body projected from the earth , in any direction , with a velocity of 7 miles per second , would never return . The moon is supposed to have no atmosphere , or , at the utmost , one rarer than we can ...
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... minute and mi- croscopic animals , that many of these are as com- plicated in their structure as the elephant or the whale . How exceedingly minute , then , must their vessels be , and how much more so the particles of which they are ...
... minute and mi- croscopic animals , that many of these are as com- plicated in their structure as the elephant or the whale . How exceedingly minute , then , must their vessels be , and how much more so the particles of which they are ...
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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.