The Book of NatureHarper & Brothers, 1834 - 467 páginas |
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... regarded as reputable and easy circumstances . In 1795 , he gained a premium of twenty guineas by successfully com- peting before the Medical Society ; having presented the best dissertation on the question , " What are the diseases ...
... regarded as reputable and easy circumstances . In 1795 , he gained a premium of twenty guineas by successfully com- peting before the Medical Society ; having presented the best dissertation on the question , " What are the diseases ...
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... regarded as equivalent to the recom- mendation of skepticism , led to the following correspondence . " TO THE Reverend " Dear Sir , " Caroline Place , Jan. 26th , 1807 . " It is with much regret I feel myself compelled to discontinue my ...
... regarded as equivalent to the recom- mendation of skepticism , led to the following correspondence . " TO THE Reverend " Dear Sir , " Caroline Place , Jan. 26th , 1807 . " It is with much regret I feel myself compelled to discontinue my ...
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... regarded calumny and detraction , nor ever thought it necessary to confute them . He adopted the sentiment of Boerhaave , who said , " They are sparks which , if you do not blow them , will go out of themselves . The surest remedy ...
... regarded calumny and detraction , nor ever thought it necessary to confute them . He adopted the sentiment of Boerhaave , who said , " They are sparks which , if you do not blow them , will go out of themselves . The surest remedy ...
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... regarded in its general mass , is perpetually changing ; alternately living , dying , and reviving ; decomposing into elements that elude our pursuit ; and recombining into new shapes and energies and modes of existence . The purest and ...
... regarded in its general mass , is perpetually changing ; alternately living , dying , and reviving ; decomposing into elements that elude our pursuit ; and recombining into new shapes and energies and modes of existence . The purest and ...
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... regarded in a low and contemptible light . Though not essentially eternal , as was contended for by all the schools of Greece and Asia , nor essentially intelligent , as was contended for by several of them , it evinces in every part ...
... regarded in a low and contemptible light . Though not essentially eternal , as was contended for by all the schools of Greece and Asia , nor essentially intelligent , as was contended for by several of them , it evinces in every part ...
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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 435 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, . Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Página 436 - Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance haiL Still would her touch the strain prolong; And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She...
Página 355 - Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.
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 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 341 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Página 335 - God and immortality, without the help of metaphysics : for they say there is a Great King, who made them, who dwells in a glorious country to the southward of them ; and that the souls of the good shall go thither, where they shall live again. Their worship consists of two parts, sacrifice and cantico. Their sacrifice is their first fruits. The first and fattest buck they kill goeth to the fire, where he is all burnt, with a mournful ditty of him...
Página 408 - Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand. Contented toil, and hospitable care, And kind connubial tenderness are there, And piety with 'wishes placed above, And steady loyalty, and faithful love.
Página 453 - The flame was dim and distant; the moon hid her red face in the east. A blast came from the mountain, on its wings was the spirit of Loda. He came to his place in his terrors, and shook his dusky spear. His eyes appear like flames in his dark face; his voice is like distant thunder.