On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Physical Condition of Man: Principally with Reference to the Supply of His Wants and the Exercise of His Intellectual Faculties, Հատոր 2W. Pickering, 1833 - 375 էջ |
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On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Physical Condition of Man ... John Kidd Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1852 |
On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Physical Condition of Man ... John Kidd Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1835 |
On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Physical Condition of Man ... John Kidd Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1887 |
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adaptation animals Aristotle arts atmosphere birds body brain called camel capable carbon carbonic acid character colour common consequence considered coral coral reefs Cuvier degree derived du Mus earth effect employed existence external world habits hand heat human individual instance instinct intellectual faculties kingdom Lamarck Lucretius lusus mals mammæ ment metals mind mineral mode moral nature neral observation organs oviparous peculiar phenomena philosophical physical condition powers present principle produced proportion purpose quadrupeds racter reference resemble respect sal ammoniac SECT sense shew species spect stance structure substance supply surface temperature tion treatise tural ture various vegetable vertebræ viviparous wants whole ἀλλὰ γὰρ δὲ καὶ ἐν ἐστὶ ἐστιν ἔχει καὶ τὰ κατὰ οἱ οἷον ὅσα οὐ οὐκ πάντα περὶ πρὸς τὰ μὲν τὰς ταῦτα τε τὴν τῆς τὸ τῶν τοῖς τὸν τοῦ τοὺς τῷ τῶν ζῴων ὥσπερ
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Էջ 256 - She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with majestic motion, A ruler of the waters and their powers : And such she was ; — her daughters had their dowers From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Pour'd in her lap all gems in sparkling showers.
Էջ 40 - ... then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun...
Էջ 280 - When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rye in their place ? 26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
Էջ 143 - Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth: at last Words, interwove with sighs, found out their way.
Էջ 80 - Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Էջ 156 - Or view the Lord of the unerring bow, The God of Life, and Poesy, and Light — The Sun in human limbs arrayed, and brow All radiant from his triumph in the fight ; The shaft hath just been shot— the arrow bright With an Immortal's vengeance— in his eye And nostril beautiful Disdain, and Might And Majesty, flash their full lightnings by, Developing in that one glance the Deity.
Էջ i - The Bridgewater Treatises on the power, wisdom, and goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation.
Էջ xi - Pounds sterling ; this sum, with the accruing dividends thereon, to be held at the disposal of the President, for the time being, of the Royal Society of London, to be paid to the person or persons nominated by him. The Testator...
Էջ 186 - We ought, indeed, to have paused before we first adopted the diluvian theory, and referred all our old superficial gravel to the action of the Mosaic Flood. For of man, and the works of his hands, we have not yet found a single trace among the remnants of a former world entombed in these ancient deposits.
Էջ 17 - Tum porro puer, ut saevis proiectus ab undis Navita, nudus humi iacet, infans, indigus omni Vitali auxilio, cum primum in luminis oras Nixibus ex alvo matris natura profudit, Vagituque locum lugubri complet, ut aecumst Cui tantum in vita restet transire malorum.