 | James McKeen Cattell - 1920 - 614 էջ
...other plants have all their seeds ; and those, More plants, again, successively inclose. ********* So Adam's loins contain'd his large posterity, All people...what mortal can conceive Such wond'rous smallness 1 Yet we must believe What reason tells : for reason's piercing eye Discerns those truths our senses... | |
 | 1927 - 566 էջ
...Henry Baker, a minor poet and naturalist of the eighteenth century, put it: So Adam's loins contained his large posterity, All people that have been, and all that e'er shall be.2 Scientists of the eighteenth century seem to have had the courage of their convictions, for they... | |
 | 1927 - 578 էջ
...have all their seeds; and those, More plants, again, successively inclose. "So Adam's loins contained his large posterity, All people that have been, and...piercing eye Discerns those truths our senses can't decry." THE INCEPTION OF GENETICS — MENDEL'S WORK AND DISCOVERIES Less than a quarter of a century... | |
 | Osborn Zoological Laboratory - 1921 - 448 էջ
...other plants have all their seeds ; and those, More plants, again, successively inclose. ********* So Adam's loins contain'd his large posterity, All people...eye Discerns those truths our senses can't descry. So Baker expressed it in one of the few departures from prose permitted in the Philosophical Transactions... | |
 | James McKeen Cattell - 1918 - 592 էջ
...hence: Each Myrtle-Seed includes a thousand Groves, Where future Bards may warhle forth their Loves. So ADAM'S Loins contain'd his large Posterity, All People...Eye Discerns those Truths our Senses can't descry. During the next decade Baker published two volumes entitled " Medulla Poetarum Eomanorum " and also... | |
 | Dennis Todd - 1995 - 364 էջ
...size, but each as perfect and complete as the being that contained it. "Thus ADAM's Loins contained his large Posterity, / All people that have been, and all that e'er shall be." 12 What we perceive as the birth of one generation from the previous is actually the successive emergence... | |
 | Dennis Todd - 1995 - 366 էջ
...size, but each as perfect and complete as the being that contained it. "Thus ADAM's Loins contained his large Posterity, / All people that have been, and all that e'er shall be."12 What we perceive as the birth of one generation from the previous is actually the successive... | |
 | Edward G. Ruestow - 1996 - 368 էջ
...victories of pure understanding over the senses, and Henry Baker managed to make the point in rhyme: Amazing Thought! what Mortal can conceive Such wond'rous...piercing Eye Discerns those Truths our Senses can't descry.20 18 Malebranche (1958-70), 9:1118-19, 1:81-3. 19 Leibniz (1875-90), 3:562 (see n. 16 above);... | |
 | James McKeen Cattell - 1918 - 602 էջ
...hence: Each Myrtle-Seed includes a thousand Groves, Where future Bards may warble forth their Loves. So ADAM'S Loins contain'd his large Posterity, All People...Eye Discerns those Truths our Senses can't descry. During the next decade Baker published two volumes entitled " Medulla Poetarum Romanorum " and also... | |
 | James McKeen Cattell - 1921 - 612 էջ
...other plants have all their seeds ; and those, More plants, again, successively inclose. ********* So Adam's loins contain'd his large posterity, All people...eye Discerns those truths our senses can't descry. So Baker expressed it in one of the few departures from prose permitted in the Philosophical Transactions... | |
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Each seed includes a plant : that plant, again, Has other seeds, which other plants contain : Those other plants have all their seeds ; and those, More plants, again, successively inclose. ********* So Adam's loins contain'd his large posterity, All people... 