Nature of the material worldLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1834 - Natural history |
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... living , dying , and reviving ; decomposing into elements that elude our pursuit ; and recombining into new shapes and energies and modes of existence . The purest and most compact metals become tarnished or converted into a calx or ...
... living , dying , and reviving ; decomposing into elements that elude our pursuit ; and recombining into new shapes and energies and modes of existence . The purest and most compact metals become tarnished or converted into a calx or ...
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... living , though the most temperate and abstemious Athenian of his time ; that thus , with yet keener malevolence , endeavoured to brand him with the still fouler re- proach of the grossest impiety and atheism . It is , indeed , scarcely ...
... living , though the most temperate and abstemious Athenian of his time ; that thus , with yet keener malevolence , endeavoured to brand him with the still fouler re- proach of the grossest impiety and atheism . It is , indeed , scarcely ...
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... living beings , visible to the microscope , of which a million million would not make up the bulk of a common grain of sand . * Wollaston in Phil . Trans . for 1813 , p . 114 . Annals of Philos . No. III . p . 224 . Davy's Elem . vol ...
... living beings , visible to the microscope , of which a million million would not make up the bulk of a common grain of sand . * Wollaston in Phil . Trans . for 1813 , p . 114 . Annals of Philos . No. III . p . 224 . Davy's Elem . vol ...
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... living beings , probably endowed with as complex and perfect a structure as the whale or the elephant , so minute that a million of millions of them do not occupy a bulk larger than a common grain of sand . If we exchange the microscope ...
... living beings , probably endowed with as complex and perfect a structure as the whale or the elephant , so minute that a million of millions of them do not occupy a bulk larger than a common grain of sand . If we exchange the microscope ...
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... living to which they make the nearest approach , than various animals that are familiar to us do from others that belong to the same tribes , and which are found , under one species or other , over the whole world . The race of horses ...
... living to which they make the nearest approach , than various animals that are familiar to us do from others that belong to the same tribes , and which are found , under one species or other , over the whole world . The race of horses ...
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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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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.