The Book of NatureJ. & J. Harper, 1837 - 467 páginas |
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Página xv
... various feelings by which they are respectively tried ; may weep with those that weep , and rejoice with those that rejoice . " And sanctify thou their souls , as well as heal their bodies . Let faith and patience , and every Christian ...
... various feelings by which they are respectively tried ; may weep with those that weep , and rejoice with those that rejoice . " And sanctify thou their souls , as well as heal their bodies . Let faith and patience , and every Christian ...
Página 27
... Anquetil du Perron's Latin version . The reader may find various similar extracts in Sir William Jones's works , vol . vi . 4co , edit . Cap . xi . 17 . void or waste condition into a state of order and A MATERIAL WORLD . 27.
... Anquetil du Perron's Latin version . The reader may find various similar extracts in Sir William Jones's works , vol . vi . 4co , edit . Cap . xi . 17 . void or waste condition into a state of order and A MATERIAL WORLD . 27.
Página 31
... various other tenets , † to enter into his system , or that which he chooses to distinguish by the name of the Transcendental Philosophy , and which not long since bade fair to obtain a universal sway over the Continent , though for ...
... various other tenets , † to enter into his system , or that which he chooses to distinguish by the name of the Transcendental Philosophy , and which not long since bade fair to obtain a universal sway over the Continent , though for ...
Página 43
... various face ; The EMPYREAN this , the holiest heaven , To the pure spirits of the blest is given : No mortal eye its splendid rays may bear , No mortal bosom feel the raptures there . The earth , in all her summer pride array'd , To ...
... various face ; The EMPYREAN this , the holiest heaven , To the pure spirits of the blest is given : No mortal eye its splendid rays may bear , No mortal bosom feel the raptures there . The earth , in all her summer pride array'd , To ...
Página 47
... various separa- tions , and new associations and motions of these permanent particles : com- pound bodies being apt to break , not in the midst of solid particles , but where those particles are laid together , and touch only in a few ...
... various separa- tions , and new associations and motions of these permanent particles : com- pound bodies being apt to break , not in the midst of solid particles , but where those particles are laid together , and touch only in a few ...
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action adverted already observed animals appears Aristotle atmosphere attraction birds blood body brain called capable carbon carbonic acid character chiefly colour common consequence consists constitutes cotyledon curious cuticle Cuvier degree denominated distinct doctrine earth Empedocles Epicurus equally existence fact faculty fibres fishes fluid former gastric juice genus Greece Greek heart heat hence human Humphry Davy hypothesis ideas insects instances instinct integument intelligence kind lacteals language larynx lecture less Lucretius lungs mankind manner material matter means mind motion muscles muscular nature never objects occasionally organs origin oxygen particles passions peculiar perfect perhaps perpetually petrifactions philosophers physiologists plants Plato possess present principle produced proof proportion prove putrefaction Pythagoras quadrupeds racters reason respect rocks secreted sensation skin solid species stomach substance supposed term theory thing tion traced tribes variety various vegetable vessels whence whole worms zoophytes
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Página xii - And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
Página 360 - When in broad daylight I open my eyes, it is not in my power to choose whether I shall see or no, or to determine what particular objects shall present themselves to my view; and so likewise as to the hearing and other senses, the ideas imprinted on them are not creatures of my will. There is therefore some other Will or Spirit that produces them.
Página 46 - 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 39 - 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. Then cold and hot and moist and dry In order to their stations leap, And Music's power obey. 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 80 - 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 406 - Come, pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of cypress lawn Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come; but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes...
Página 47 - 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 445 - Raised by thy breath, has quench'd the orb of day ? To-morrow he repairs the golden flood And warms the nations with redoubled ray. Enough for me : with joy I see The different doom our fates assign: Be thine Despair and sceptred Care, To triumph and to die are mine.
Página 454 - Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact; One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman; the lover, all as frantic. Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt; The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling.
Página 429 - Down dropt, and all the faded roses shed : Speechless he stood and pale, till thus at length First to himself he inward silence broke.