The Book of NatureJ. & J. Harper, 1831 - 467 páginas |
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... period in some distant futurity , in which , the great object for which it has been endowed with this superadded power being accomplished , the exemption may extend equally to every part and to every compound a period in which there ...
... period in some distant futurity , in which , the great object for which it has been endowed with this superadded power being accomplished , the exemption may extend equally to every part and to every compound a period in which there ...
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... period . This period was hence denominated the ANNUS MAGNUS , or GREAT YEAR , and not unfrequently the PLATONIC YEAR , as the same kind of revolution was in some measure taught also by Plato . The motory power , thus impressed by the ...
... period . This period was hence denominated the ANNUS MAGNUS , or GREAT YEAR , and not unfrequently the PLATONIC YEAR , as the same kind of revolution was in some measure taught also by Plato . The motory power , thus impressed by the ...
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... period of some years for the heated imagination to become sufficiently cool to enable mankind to see , as every one sees at present , that the difficulties chargeable upon the doctrine of an infinite divisibility of matter are not ...
... period of some years for the heated imagination to become sufficiently cool to enable mankind to see , as every one sees at present , that the difficulties chargeable upon the doctrine of an infinite divisibility of matter are not ...
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... period or other in every quarter of the globe ; believing them to be in every instance volcanic productions of the moon , thrown by the impulse of the explosion beyond the range of her centripetal influence . COHESIBILITY is the ...
... period or other in every quarter of the globe ; believing them to be in every instance volcanic productions of the moon , thrown by the impulse of the explosion beyond the range of her centripetal influence . COHESIBILITY is the ...
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... period of time , visited our horizon during the close of the year 1811 ; which he conceives will be converted into a stellar or planetary orb as soon as its luminous mat- ter , and especially that of its enormous tail , shall be ...
... period of time , visited our horizon during the close of the year 1811 ; which he conceives will be converted into a stellar or planetary orb as soon as its luminous mat- ter , and especially that of its enormous tail , shall be ...
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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