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 FacultiesCarey, Lea & Blanchard, 1835 - 280 من الصفحات |
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... fact an epitome of the subject of almost all the others . He also considers it tight to state , that it is the immediate object of the Treatise itself to unfold a train of facts , not to maintain an argument ; to give a general view of ...
... fact an epitome of the subject of almost all the others . He also considers it tight to state , that it is the immediate object of the Treatise itself to unfold a train of facts , not to maintain an argument ; to give a general view of ...
الصفحة 14
... puerile view of the question is not for a moment entertained by any one capable of philosophical reflection . In fact , in as many different states as man does actually I exist , civilized or savage , so many are his 14 INTRODUCTION .
... puerile view of the question is not for a moment entertained by any one capable of philosophical reflection . In fact , in as many different states as man does actually I exist , civilized or savage , so many are his 14 INTRODUCTION .
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... fact , with the exception of a very few instinctive rather than voluntary acts , such as that of deriving its nutriment from the mother's breast , the infant is , from the fee- bleness of its powers , incapable of efficient exertion ...
... fact , with the exception of a very few instinctive rather than voluntary acts , such as that of deriving its nutriment from the mother's breast , the infant is , from the fee- bleness of its powers , incapable of efficient exertion ...
الصفحة 30
... fact , or , as is probable , merely a fictitious anec- dote , will serve to illustrate the present point ; inas- much as the use of the means , said to have been em- ployed by Ulysses to detect the hero , was evidently suggested by the ...
... fact , or , as is probable , merely a fictitious anec- dote , will serve to illustrate the present point ; inas- much as the use of the means , said to have been em- ployed by Ulysses to detect the hero , was evidently suggested by the ...
الصفحة 31
... fact , if it be so , may be explained by that principle of our nature , on which depends the love of novelty ; namely , that susceptibility of the nerves which makes them capable of being stimulated more vehemently by new , than by ...
... fact , if it be so , may be explained by that principle of our nature , on which depends the love of novelty ; namely , that susceptibility of the nerves which makes them capable of being stimulated more vehemently by new , than by ...
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