The Book of NatureHarper & Brothers, 1834 - 467 էջ |
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... proportion of informa- tion , which it is my duty to suppose I can at present communicate to them . One of the first inquiries that can ever press upon the mind must relate to the nature of MATTER , and the origin of the world around us ...
... proportion of informa- tion , which it is my duty to suppose I can at present communicate to them . One of the first inquiries that can ever press upon the mind must relate to the nature of MATTER , and the origin of the world around us ...
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... proportion to its subtility , its levity , its activity , its refined ethereal or spiritualized modification of being . Water is as much a compound as any of the earths , yet we have strong reason for believing that for the most part it ...
... proportion to its subtility , its levity , its activity , its refined ethereal or spiritualized modification of being . Water is as much a compound as any of the earths , yet we have strong reason for believing that for the most part it ...
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... proportions of the elements are in certain definite ratios to each other , it is evident that these ratios may be expressed by numbers . " In consequence of which they are so expressed in various places by himself , and by many French ...
... proportions of the elements are in certain definite ratios to each other , it is evident that these ratios may be expressed by numbers . " In consequence of which they are so expressed in various places by himself , and by many French ...
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... proportions so exact , yet so diversified , that forms and numbers may be employed as synonymes or convertible terms , he has ex- hibited so close a coincidence with one of the latest and most surprising dis- coveries of the present day ...
... proportions so exact , yet so diversified , that forms and numbers may be employed as synonymes or convertible terms , he has ex- hibited so close a coincidence with one of the latest and most surprising dis- coveries of the present day ...
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... proportion the oxygen unites with the metal to produce an oxide of one kind , it invariably unites by a multiple or divisor of the same proportion to produce every kind of oxide belonging to the same metal . Thus we have discovered not ...
... proportion the oxygen unites with the metal to produce an oxide of one kind , it invariably unites by a multiple or divisor of the same proportion to produce every kind of oxide belonging to the same metal . Thus we have discovered not ...
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The Book of Nature: From the Last London Ed., to which is Now Prefixed, a ... John Mason Good Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1837 |
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Էջ 331 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Էջ xii - And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked ; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
Էջ 392 - HAPPINESS ! our being's end and aim ! Good, Pleasure, Ease, Content ! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts th' eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die...
Էջ 36 - 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.
Էջ 325 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored mind Sees GOD in clouds, or hears Him in the wind ; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Էջ xxi - 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.
Էջ 401 - Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe, And in thy right hand lead with thee, The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty...
Էջ 70 - 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...
Էջ 450 - Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety?
Էջ 425 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.