The Book of NatureJ. & J. Harper, 1831 - 467 páginas |
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... brain , a heart , and a stomach ; and have very obligingly permitted them to possess ideas , and the means of communicating ideas ; to fall in love and to marry , and thus far to exercise the distinctive faculty of volition . The whole ...
... brain , a heart , and a stomach ; and have very obligingly permitted them to possess ideas , and the means of communicating ideas ; to fall in love and to marry , and thus far to exercise the distinctive faculty of volition . The whole ...
Página 91
... brain , and the various passions and some of the senses to which this organ gives birth.f Yet , though the vessels of plants do not appear to possess any muscular fibres , we have evident proofs of the existence of a contractile and ...
... brain , and the various passions and some of the senses to which this organ gives birth.f Yet , though the vessels of plants do not appear to possess any muscular fibres , we have evident proofs of the existence of a contractile and ...
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... brain , and branch out in every direc- tion , either immediately from the brain itself , or from some part of the spinal marrow , which is a continuation of this organ ; by which means a perpetual communication is kept up between the ...
... brain , and branch out in every direc- tion , either immediately from the brain itself , or from some part of the spinal marrow , which is a continuation of this organ ; by which means a perpetual communication is kept up between the ...
Página 108
... brain , through the medium of the nerves , which , as I have just observed , always accompany them , and which either terminate in or arise from that organ : but while the irritative and sensitive fibres of the ear are excited only by ...
... brain , through the medium of the nerves , which , as I have just observed , always accompany them , and which either terminate in or arise from that organ : but while the irritative and sensitive fibres of the ear are excited only by ...
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... brain . What , then , is that wonderful process which assimilates sub- stances in themselves so unlike ; that converts the vegetable into an animal form , and endows it with animal powers ? Now to be able to reply succinctly to this ...
... brain . What , then , is that wonderful process which assimilates sub- stances in themselves so unlike ; that converts the vegetable into an animal form , and endows it with animal powers ? Now to be able to reply succinctly to this ...
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