Nature of the material worldLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1834 - Natural history |
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... origin from the following circumstances : — Towards the close of the year 1810 the author had the honour of receiving a visit from a depu- tation of the Directors of the SURREY INSTITU- TION , founded on what had been antecedently the ...
... origin from the following circumstances : — Towards the close of the year 1810 the author had the honour of receiving a visit from a depu- tation of the Directors of the SURREY INSTITU- TION , founded on what had been antecedently the ...
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... Origin , Connexion , and Character of the Passions Page · 203 · 227 247 - 264 X. On the leading Characters and Passions of savage and civilized Life XI . On Temperaments , or Constitutional Pro- pensities XII . On Pathognomy , or the ...
... Origin , Connexion , and Character of the Passions Page · 203 · 227 247 - 264 X. On the leading Characters and Passions of savage and civilized Life XI . On Temperaments , or Constitutional Pro- pensities XII . On Pathognomy , or the ...
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... origin of the world around us : what is this common substance , from which every thing visible has proceeded , and to which every thing visible is reducible ; has it existed from all eternity ? or has it been called into being by the ...
... origin of the world around us : what is this common substance , from which every thing visible has proceeded , and to which every thing visible is reducible ; has it existed from all eternity ? or has it been called into being by the ...
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... origin of the ideal hypothesis , and to have pointed out its sophisms , but our time will not allow me ; and it is the less necessary , as I shall have an opportunity , on a future occasion , of revert- * Degerando , Histoire Comparée ...
... origin of the ideal hypothesis , and to have pointed out its sophisms , but our time will not allow me ; and it is the less necessary , as I shall have an opportunity , on a future occasion , of revert- * Degerando , Histoire Comparée ...
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... origin , and is the only pathway vouchsafed to our external senses by which we can walk Through nature up to nature's God ; that God whom we behold equally in the rounded pebble and the painted flower - in the volcano and in the corn ...
... origin , and is the only pathway vouchsafed to our external senses by which we can walk Through nature up to nature's God ; that God whom we behold equally in the rounded pebble and the painted flower - in the volcano and in the corn ...
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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.