The Book of NatureHarper & Brothers, 1834 - 467 էջ |
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... action . The SECOND HYPOTHESIS to which I have adverted is not less crowded with difficulties and absurdities ; but it has a more imposing appearance , and has hence , in many periods and among many nations , been more popular , and was ...
... action . The SECOND HYPOTHESIS to which I have adverted is not less crowded with difficulties and absurdities ; but it has a more imposing appearance , and has hence , in many periods and among many nations , been more popular , and was ...
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... action of the most powerful chemical agents ; and even this , whether by art or by nature , upon a very limited scale . : A similar identity appears to exist in atmospheric air , which is , probably , at least as indestructible as water ...
... action of the most powerful chemical agents ; and even this , whether by art or by nature , upon a very limited scale . : A similar identity appears to exist in atmospheric air , which is , probably , at least as indestructible as water ...
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... action ; and unequivocally refers the whole of those complex series of percus- sions and repercussions , interchanges and combinations , exhibited by the ele- mentary seeds or atoms of matter during the creative process , to a chain of ...
... action ; and unequivocally refers the whole of those complex series of percus- sions and repercussions , interchanges and combinations , exhibited by the ele- mentary seeds or atoms of matter during the creative process , to a chain of ...
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... action of the powder on a bullet ceases as soon as the bullet is out of the piece . In like manner a billiard ball at rest will continue so till put into motion by a billiard ball in motion , for it can never commence motion of its own ...
... action of the powder on a bullet ceases as soon as the bullet is out of the piece . In like manner a billiard ball at rest will continue so till put into motion by a billiard ball in motion , for it can never commence motion of its own ...
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... action , and constitute its magnificent code of laws , are thus summed up by M. la Place . ‡ 1. Gravitation takes place between the most minute particles of bodies . 2. It is proportional to their masses . 3. It is inversely as the ...
... action , and constitute its magnificent code of laws , are thus summed up by M. la Place . ‡ 1. Gravitation takes place between the most minute particles of bodies . 2. It is proportional to their masses . 3. It is inversely as the ...
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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 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 435 - 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.
Էջ 436 - Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance haiL Still would her touch the strain prolong; And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She...
Էջ 355 - 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? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.
Էջ 39 - 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. Then cold and hot and moist and dry In order to their stations leap, And Music's power obey. 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.
Էջ 46 - 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 341 - 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 preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Էջ 335 - God and immortality, without the help of metaphysics : for they say there is a Great King, who made them, who dwells in a glorious country to the southward of them ; and that the souls of the good shall go thither, where they shall live again. Their worship consists of two parts, sacrifice and cantico. Their sacrifice is their first fruits. The first and fattest buck they kill goeth to the fire, where he is all burnt, with a mournful ditty of him...
Էջ 408 - Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand. Contented toil, and hospitable care, And kind connubial tenderness are there, And piety with 'wishes placed above, And steady loyalty, and faithful love.
Էջ 453 - The flame was dim and distant; the moon hid her red face in the east. A blast came from the mountain, on its wings was the spirit of Loda. He came to his place in his terrors, and shook his dusky spear. His eyes appear like flames in his dark face; his voice is like distant thunder.