A Knowledge of Living Things: With the Laws of Their ExistenceBailliere brothers, 1860 - 318 من الصفحات |
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absorbed adapted albumen animal body aqueous humor arteries atmosphere axis become blood buds called capable carbonic acid cause cavity cells cellular tissue centre chemical affinity ciliary processes color combination compounds conceptacle condition consists constituted contained coral cornea cotyledons crystalline lens decomposition degree digestive disease earth elements exercise existence external flowering plant fluid formation functions fungi germ-cells growth heat Hydra hydrogen infusoria inorganic laws layer leaves lens less living lungs matter membrane ment motion muscles nature necessary nerves nitrogen nourishment nutrition object odorous organic bodies oxygen papillæ particles phenomena plants poisonous polyps portion possess produce properties proportion purpose quantity rays of light refraction respiration retina roots sea-weed seeds single soil solid species spherical aberration sponge stem stomach structure substances supply surface tain temperature tentacles thallus tion tube tympanum vapor vegetable vitreous humor whole Zoospore
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الصفحة 276 - Then why not consent to apply the knowledge we have to that which is under development? Shall we educate ourselves in what is known, and then casting away all we have acquired, turn to our ignorance for aid to guide us among the unknown? If so, instruct a man to write, but employ one who is unacquainted with letters to read that which is written; the end will be just as unsatisfactory, though not so injurious, for the book of nature, which we have to read, is written by the finger of God. Why should...
الصفحة 285 - I CONSIDER a human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties, till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot, and vein, that runs through the body of it.
الصفحة 298 - Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers.
الصفحة 204 - that a pious hermit, who, in his watchings and prayers, had often been overtaken by sleep, so that his eyelids closed, in holy wrath against the weakness of the flesh, cut them off and threw them on the ground. But a god caused a tea-shrub to spring out of them, the leaves of which exhibit the form of an eyelid bordered with lashes, and possess the gift of hindering sleep.
الصفحة 299 - Why should ye be stricken any more ? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
الصفحة 230 - ... slept on ! and in this state was found by the kiln-man in the morning. Insensible to any pain, and ignorant of his misfortune, he attempted to rise and pursue his journey, but missing his shoe, requested to have it found ; and when he was raised, putting his burnt limb to the ground to support his body, the extremity of his legbone, the tibia, crumbled into fragments, having been calcined into lime.
الصفحة 316 - The Powers of the Creator Displayed in the Creation ; or, Observations on Life amidst the various forms of the Humbler Tribes of Animated Nature ; with Practical Comments and Illustrations. By Sir JOHN GRAHAM DALYELL, Knt.
الصفحة 128 - ... around. The beauty and novelty of such a scene in the animal kingdom, long arrested my attention, but after twenty-five minutes of constant observation, I was obliged to withdraw my eye from fatigue, without having seen the torrent for one instant change its direction, or diminish, in the slightest degree, the rapidity of its course. I continued...
الصفحة 294 - Latitude, elevation, nature of the soil, degree of cultivation, relative position in regard to mountains, forests, rivers, etc., and general aspect of the neighborhood, all modify the condition of man and prove his adaptability by such effects as serve to make him understand his relations to what is around him.
الصفحة 207 - Franklin's death, he declared to one of his friends, that he had never used tobacco in the course of his long life, and that he was disposed to believe there was not much advantage to be derived from it, for that he had never known a man who used it, who advised him to follow his example.