Nature of the material worldLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1834 |
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... capable of standing the test of sober enquiry . We may regard matter as essentially and eternally intelligent , or as essentially and eternally unintelligent ; as essentially intelligent in its several parts , or as essentially intel ...
... capable of standing the test of sober enquiry . We may regard matter as essentially and eternally intelligent , or as essentially and eternally unintelligent ; as essentially intelligent in its several parts , or as essentially intel ...
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... capable of contemplating it : for no effort has hitherto suc- ceeded in ultimately enucleating the compound and tracing it to its elementary particles . We may divide and subdivide as we please ; but when we have fol- lowed it up into ...
... capable of contemplating it : for no effort has hitherto suc- ceeded in ultimately enucleating the compound and tracing it to its elementary particles . We may divide and subdivide as we please ; but when we have fol- lowed it up into ...
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... capable , indeed , of decomposition ; but , like water , becomes decomposed with great difficulty , and probably consists at this moment , as to its general mass , of the very identical particles that formed it on its first emerging ...
... capable , indeed , of decomposition ; but , like water , becomes decomposed with great difficulty , and probably consists at this moment , as to its general mass , of the very identical particles that formed it on its first emerging ...
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... capable of making an approximation to something beyond itself , as ordinarily displayed ; and hereby of becoming * See Nicholson's Journal , vol . xxxiv . p . 164 , 165 . + See Accum's Elements of Crystallography , and Tilloch's Phil ...
... capable of making an approximation to something beyond itself , as ordinarily displayed ; and hereby of becoming * See Nicholson's Journal , vol . xxxiv . p . 164 , 165 . + See Accum's Elements of Crystallography , and Tilloch's Phil ...
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... capable of following them up ? Can it be divided and subdivided to infinity ? or is there a limit to such divisibility , beyond which the process cannot possibly proceed ? and if so , are the ultimate bodies into which it is capable of ...
... capable of following them up ? Can it be divided and subdivided to infinity ? or is there a limit to such divisibility , beyond which the process cannot possibly proceed ? and if so , are the ultimate bodies into which it is capable of ...
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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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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.