The Book of NatureJ. & J. Harper, 1831 - 467 páginas |
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... Principles of Things III . The Subject continued 34 42 IV . On the Properties of Matter , essential and peculiar 50 V ... Principle of Life , Irritability , and Muscular Power . XI . On the Bones , Cartilages , Teeth , Hair , Wool , Silk ...
... Principles of Things III . The Subject continued 34 42 IV . On the Properties of Matter , essential and peculiar 50 V ... Principle of Life , Irritability , and Muscular Power . XI . On the Bones , Cartilages , Teeth , Hair , Wool , Silk ...
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... principle being traced in the world , and even in man himself , we are put into possession of two coeternal inde- pendent principles , destitute of all relative connexion and common medium of action . The SECOND HYPOTHESIS to which I ...
... principle being traced in the world , and even in man himself , we are put into possession of two coeternal inde- pendent principles , destitute of all relative connexion and common medium of action . The SECOND HYPOTHESIS to which I ...
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... PRINCIPLES OF THINGS . OUR study for the present lecture is the first or simplest principles of bodies , so far as we have hitherto been able to obtain any degree of knowledge upon this recondite inquiry , and the means by which they ...
... PRINCIPLES OF THINGS . OUR study for the present lecture is the first or simplest principles of bodies , so far as we have hitherto been able to obtain any degree of knowledge upon this recondite inquiry , and the means by which they ...
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... principle . God , " says the sublime but mistaken foun- der of this school , " wills , as far as it is possible , every thing good and nothing evil ; " * " but it cannot be that evil should be destroyed , for there must always be a ...
... principle . God , " says the sublime but mistaken foun- der of this school , " wills , as far as it is possible , every thing good and nothing evil ; " * " but it cannot be that evil should be destroyed , for there must always be a ...
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... principles of one or two of them , as nitrogen and hydrogen , have been guessed at , but nothing more ; for the ... principle of animal life , and upon which many schools of modern philosophy have supposed it altogether to de- pend ...
... principles of one or two of them , as nitrogen and hydrogen , have been guessed at , but nothing more ; for the ... principle of animal life , and upon which many schools of modern philosophy have supposed it altogether to de- pend ...
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