Lectures on Comparative Anatomy, Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural History of ManHenry G. Bohn, 1848 - 396 páginas |
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... means of attack and defence . The priests of former times used to rain a torrent of abusive epithets , as heretic , infidel , atheist , and the Lord knows what , on all who had the audacity to differ from them in opinion . This ...
... means of attack and defence . The priests of former times used to rain a torrent of abusive epithets , as heretic , infidel , atheist , and the Lord knows what , on all who had the audacity to differ from them in opinion . This ...
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... means , next to modesty and diffidence , of recom- mending our own to attention . If we could come to the strange resolution of attending only to what has been done by English- men in comparative anatomy and zoology , we should have to ...
... means , next to modesty and diffidence , of recom- mending our own to attention . If we could come to the strange resolution of attending only to what has been done by English- men in comparative anatomy and zoology , we should have to ...
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... means in his opinion best calculated to unfold the nature of life ; the characters of which he has drawn , not with the wavering outline , and undefined forms of speculation , nor in the gaudy and delusive tints of hypothesis ; but with ...
... means in his opinion best calculated to unfold the nature of life ; the characters of which he has drawn , not with the wavering outline , and undefined forms of speculation , nor in the gaudy and delusive tints of hypothesis ; but with ...
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... means synonymous epithets ) of modern zoolo- gists , might well be expected when we consider the wide field it embraces , the multifarious pursuits , and the important political and civil duties of the author . Yet , it is not less ...
... means synonymous epithets ) of modern zoolo- gists , might well be expected when we consider the wide field it embraces , the multifarious pursuits , and the important political and civil duties of the author . Yet , it is not less ...
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... mean to compare or contrast his One object of the Physiological Lectures was to contrast Mr. Hunter's knowledge of comparative anatomy with that of Cuvier . The field of living nature has been surveyed and cultivated by these two great ...
... mean to compare or contrast his One object of the Physiological Lectures was to contrast Mr. Hunter's knowledge of comparative anatomy with that of Cuvier . The field of living nature has been surveyed and cultivated by these two great ...
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Lectures on Comparative Anatomy, Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural ... Sir William Lawrence Visualização integral - 1848 |
Lectures on Comparative Anatomy, Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural ... Sir William Lawrence Visualização integral - 1848 |
Lectures on Comparative Anatomy, Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural ... Sir William Lawrence Visualização de excertos - 1848 |
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Página 169 - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
Página 5 - MEYRICK'S PAINTED ILLUSTRATIONS OF ANCIENT ARMS AND ARMOUR: A Critical Inquiry into Ancient Armour as it existed in Europe, but particularly in England, from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of Charles II.
Página 7 - STRUTT'S DRESSES AND HABITS OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND, from the Establishment of the Saxons in Britain to the present time; with an Historical and Critical Inquiry into every branch of Costume.
Página 12 - Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.
Página 14 - Essays : On Decision of Character ; on a Man's writing Memoirs of Himself; on the epithet Romantic ; on the aversion of Men of Taste to Evangelical Religion.
Página 168 - ... in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
Página 10 - MANTELL'S GEOLOGICAL EXCURSION ROUND THE ISLE OF WIGHT, and along the adjacent Coast of Dorsetshire.
Página 158 - SPEECH, consisting of names or appellations, and their connexion; whereby men register their thoughts; recall them when they are past; and also declare them one to another for mutual utility and conversation; without which, there had been amongst men, neither commonwealth, nor society, nor contract, nor peace, no more than amongst lions, bears, and wolves.
Página 5 - The author appears to us to have neglected no sources of information, and to have exhausted them, as far as regards the general scope and purpose of the inquiry. The graphical illustrations are such as become a work of tins character upon such a subject ; at, of course, a lavish cost.
Página 354 - Upon the whole, every circumstance concurs in proving that mankind are not composed of species essentially different from each other ; that, on the contrary, there was originally but one species...