Nature of the material worldLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1834 |
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... seem to have been embodied or promulgated as a doctrine of philosophy . The grand motive for this general belief appears to have been a supposed absurdity in conceiving that any thing could be created out of nothing . * The Epicureans ...
... seem to have been embodied or promulgated as a doctrine of philosophy . The grand motive for this general belief appears to have been a supposed absurdity in conceiving that any thing could be created out of nothing . * The Epicureans ...
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... seem to have received it from the East , and to have become ac- quainted with it as a branch of gymnosophy ; for it ... seems , indeed , to have spread * De Rer . Nat . i . 157 . + Sat. iii . 83 . The passage is quoted from M. Anquetil ...
... seem to have received it from the East , and to have become ac- quainted with it as a branch of gymnosophy ; for it ... seems , indeed , to have spread * De Rer . Nat . i . 157 . + Sat. iii . 83 . The passage is quoted from M. Anquetil ...
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... seem to have a statement of three distinct facts , each following the other in a regular series : first , an absolute creation of the heaven and the earth , which , we are expressly told , took place foremost , or in the beginning ...
... seem to have a statement of three distinct facts , each following the other in a regular series : first , an absolute creation of the heaven and the earth , which , we are expressly told , took place foremost , or in the beginning ...
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... existed , which Cicero * seems to have disbelieved , from a passage of Aristotle , not to be found , however , in any of his writings that have descended to us , ) into different * De Nat . Deor . 1. i . A MATERIAL WORLD . 11.
... existed , which Cicero * seems to have disbelieved , from a passage of Aristotle , not to be found , however , in any of his writings that have descended to us , ) into different * De Nat . Deor . 1. i . A MATERIAL WORLD . 11.
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... seems , on the contrary , rather to point out to us the possibility of an equal creation out of nothing of ten thousand other substances , of which each may be the medium of life and happiness to infinite orders of beings ; while every ...
... seems , on the contrary , rather to point out to us the possibility of an equal creation out of nothing of ten thousand other substances , of which each may be the medium of life and happiness to infinite orders of beings ; while every ...
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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.