Nature of the material worldLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1834 |
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... fishes , the fishes much mutilated , a few tortoises , ferns , pines , and reeds ; indicating that they were formed at a period in which organized beings of this character abounded , but in which those of other characters did I 3 ON ...
... fishes , the fishes much mutilated , a few tortoises , ferns , pines , and reeds ; indicating that they were formed at a period in which organized beings of this character abounded , but in which those of other characters did I 3 ON ...
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... fishes , there are many tribes that derive by far the greater portion of their increase from the mineral kingdom alone t ; while even in man himself , air , water , common salt , and lime , which last is almost always an ingredient of ...
... fishes , there are many tribes that derive by far the greater portion of their increase from the mineral kingdom alone t ; while even in man himself , air , water , common salt , and lime , which last is almost always an ingredient of ...
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... fishes , and is now known by the name of gastrobranchus cæcus , or hag - fish . The siren lacertina , which was at first contemplated by Linnæus as an amphibious animal of a peculiar genus , was afterwards declared by Camper and Gmelin ...
... fishes , and is now known by the name of gastrobranchus cæcus , or hag - fish . The siren lacertina , which was at first contemplated by Linnæus as an amphibious animal of a peculiar genus , was afterwards declared by Camper and Gmelin ...
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... fish , and several other fishes , derive a similar power from their long pectoral fins ; while the trochilus , or humming - bird , has been thought to unite the class of birds with that of insects . It is in one of its species , T ...
... fish , and several other fishes , derive a similar power from their long pectoral fins ; while the trochilus , or humming - bird , has been thought to unite the class of birds with that of insects . It is in one of its species , T ...
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... fishes were seen sporting in the reservoir.t So in the thermal springs of Bahia in Brazil many small fishes are seen swimming in a rivulet that raises the thermometer to 88 ' , the temperature of the air own being only 772 Sonnerat ...
... fishes were seen sporting in the reservoir.t So in the thermal springs of Bahia in Brazil many small fishes are seen swimming in a rivulet that raises the thermometer to 88 ' , the temperature of the air own being only 772 Sonnerat ...
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action already observed animal animal and vegetable appears Aristotle arteries atmosphere atoms attraction becomes birds blood bodies bones called capable 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 heavens hence infinite divisibility insects instances kind lacteals lecture less light lime Lucretius lungs manner mass material matter means mineral minute motion muscles muscular nature occasionally 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 rocks secernent secreted seeds skin solid species stomach substance supposed surface theory thing thrown traced Trans tribes vapour variety various veins vessels visible whence whole worms zoophytes Ζεύς
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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 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 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 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.
Página 150 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens...
Página 18 - Who knows but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind...
Página 40 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.
Página 341 - Look round our world; behold the chain of love Combining all below and all above. See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbour to embrace.
Página 87 - ... attract each other directly as their mass, and inversely as the square of their distance.