Nature of the material worldLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1834 |
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... less crowded with difficulties and absurdities ; but it has a more imposing appearance , and has hence , in many periods and among many nations , been more popular , and was perpetually leading away a multitude of the philosophers from ...
... less crowded with difficulties and absurdities ; but it has a more imposing appearance , and has hence , in many periods and among many nations , been more popular , and was perpetually leading away a multitude of the philosophers from ...
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... less pervading all of them , from Orpheus to Virgil . It is in reference to this that Aratus opens his Phænomena with that beautiful passage which is so forcibly appealed to by St. Paul in the course of his address to the Athenians on ...
... less pervading all of them , from Orpheus to Virgil . It is in reference to this that Aratus opens his Phænomena with that beautiful passage which is so forcibly appealed to by St. Paul in the course of his address to the Athenians on ...
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... less than a century , we shall find it current among the philo- sophers of various schools , and especially that of which Lord Bolingbroke has been placed at the head , and hence running through every page of the cele- brated Essay on ...
... less than a century , we shall find it current among the philo- sophers of various schools , and especially that of which Lord Bolingbroke has been placed at the head , and hence running through every page of the cele- brated Essay on ...
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... less SO : In spite of pride , in erring reason's spite , One truth is clear , WHATEVEr is , is right . If every thing be right at present , there is no necessity for a day of correction or retribution hereafter ; and the chief argument ...
... less SO : In spite of pride , in erring reason's spite , One truth is clear , WHATEVEr is , is right . If every thing be right at present , there is no necessity for a day of correction or retribution hereafter ; and the chief argument ...
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... less necessary , as I shall have an opportunity , on a future occasion , of revert- * Degerando , Histoire Comparée des Systèmes de Philo- sophie , tom . ii . p . 17 . ing to all these various conjectures , and examining them VOL . I. C ...
... less necessary , as I shall have an opportunity , on a future occasion , of revert- * Degerando , Histoire Comparée des Systèmes de Philo- sophie , tom . ii . p . 17 . ing to all these various conjectures , and examining them VOL . I. C ...
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Términos y frases comunes
acid action already observed animal animal and vegetable appears Aristotle Aristoxenus arteries atmosphere atoms attraction birds blood bodies bones called capable carbone 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 hence hypothesis infinite divisibility insects instances irritability kind lacteals laws lecture less Lucretius lungs manner mass material matter means mineral minute motion muscles muscular nature 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 regarded rocks secernent secreted seeds skin solid species stomach substance supposed surface theory thing traced Trans tree tribes vapour variety various veins vessels visible whole worms zoophytes
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Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.