Nature of the material worldLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1834 - Natural history |
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... Blood , Respiration , and Animalization 304 XIV . On the Processes of Assimilation and Nutrition ; and the curious Effects to which 340 XV . On the External Senses of Animals 361 they lead VOLUME II . SERIES II . NATURE OF THE ANIMATE ...
... Blood , Respiration , and Animalization 304 XIV . On the Processes of Assimilation and Nutrition ; and the curious Effects to which 340 XV . On the External Senses of Animals 361 they lead VOLUME II . SERIES II . NATURE OF THE ANIMATE ...
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... blood forwards , and the other to bring it backwards , we are able very sufficiently to establish the phænomenon of a circulatory system ; and from several of the experiments of M. Willdenow , it has been inferred that this circulatory ...
... blood forwards , and the other to bring it backwards , we are able very sufficiently to establish the phænomenon of a circulatory system ; and from several of the experiments of M. Willdenow , it has been inferred that this circulatory ...
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... near as possible to the heart , in which the blood did not rise higher than nine feet . It has long been admitted by botanists in general , that the thorns of plants are abortive branches ; the 176 ON ORGANISED BODIES ,
... near as possible to the heart , in which the blood did not rise higher than nine feet . It has long been admitted by botanists in general , that the thorns of plants are abortive branches ; the 176 ON ORGANISED BODIES ,
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... blood in man himself is accomplished without such a contrivance ; and this , too , the more difficult half , since the veins , through the greater extent of their course , have to oppose the attraction of gravitation , instead of being ...
... blood in man himself is accomplished without such a contrivance ; and this , too , the more difficult half , since the veins , through the greater extent of their course , have to oppose the attraction of gravitation , instead of being ...
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... blood of plants , like that of animals , instead of being simple , is compound , and consists of a great multitude of compacter corpuscles , globules for the most part , but not always globules , floating in a looser and almost ...
... blood of plants , like that of animals , instead of being simple , is compound , and consists of a great multitude of compacter corpuscles , globules for the most part , but not always globules , floating in a looser and almost ...
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action already observed animal animal and vegetable appears Aristotle arteries atmosphere atoms attraction becomes birds blood bodies bones called capable 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 heavens hence infinite divisibility insects instances kind lacteals lecture less light lime Lucretius lungs manner mass material matter means mineral minute motion muscles muscular nature occasionally 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 rocks secernent secreted seeds skin solid species stomach substance supposed surface theory thing thrown traced Trans tribes vapour variety various veins vessels visible whence whole worms zoophytes Ζεύς
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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 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 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 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.
Page 150 - 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...
Page 18 - 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...
Page 40 - 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.
Page 341 - Look round our world; behold the chain of love Combining all below and all above. See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbour to embrace.
Page 87 - ... attract each other directly as their mass, and inversely as the square of their distance.