The Book of NatureJ. & J. Harper, 1831 - 467 páginas |
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Página 49
... feels no dread of death , and rightly estimates the design of nature ? Such a man does not , with the multitude , regard CHANCE as a god , for he knows that God can never act at random ; nor as A CONTINGENT CAUSE OF EVENTS ; nor does he ...
... feels no dread of death , and rightly estimates the design of nature ? Such a man does not , with the multitude , regard CHANCE as a god , for he knows that God can never act at random ; nor as A CONTINGENT CAUSE OF EVENTS ; nor does he ...
Página 99
... feeling of rain ; and , in common with the bird tribes , has only one ultimate or excrementary duct ; while the olive cavy avoids water of every kind almost as pertinaciously as does also the ostrich , which is in consequence said by ...
... feeling of rain ; and , in common with the bird tribes , has only one ultimate or excrementary duct ; while the olive cavy avoids water of every kind almost as pertinaciously as does also the ostrich , which is in consequence said by ...
Página 101
... feeling , from feeling to intellect , from the clod to the crystal , from the crystal to the plant , from the plant to the animal , from brutal life to man . Here , placed on the summit of this stupendous pyramid , lord of all around ...
... feeling , from feeling to intellect , from the clod to the crystal , from the crystal to the plant , from the plant to the animal , from brutal life to man . Here , placed on the summit of this stupendous pyramid , lord of all around ...
Página 160
... feeling or motivity . But the experiments of anatomists upon this abstruse subject , numerous and diversified as they have been of late years , and , unhappily , upon living as well as upon dead animals , have arrived at nothing ...
... feeling or motivity . But the experiments of anatomists upon this abstruse subject , numerous and diversified as they have been of late years , and , unhappily , upon living as well as upon dead animals , have arrived at nothing ...
Página 161
... feeling , as also irritability to the muscles . That these nervous or pulpy fibres are the organs by which the various sen- sations are produced or maintained is demonstrable from the following facts : If we divide , or tie , or merely ...
... feeling , as also irritability to the muscles . That these nervous or pulpy fibres are the organs by which the various sen- sations are produced or maintained is demonstrable from the following facts : If we divide , or tie , or merely ...
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Términos y frases comunes
action adverted already observed animals appears Aristotle birds blood body brain called capable carbonic acid character chiefly colour common consequence consists constitutes Cuvier degree denominated derived distinct doctrine earth Epicurus equally existence external senses fact faculty farther feeling fishes fluid former gastric juice genus glottis Greek happiness heart heat hence hippopotamus human hypothesis ideas important innate ideas insects instances instinct intelligence kind knowledge lacteals language larynx Lect lecture less Lucretius mankind manner material matter means mind Misor moral muscles nature never objects occasionally organs origin oxygen passions peculiar perfect perhaps perpetually petrifactions philosophers physiologists plants Plato possess present principle produced proof prove Pythagoras quadrupeds racters reason respect sensation solid soul species stomach substance supposed taste term theory thing tion traced tribes truth variety various vegetable ventriloquism whence whole words worms zoophytes