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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... less admissible , because the poet , in concentrating the powers of his imagination on the excellences of that work of creation which bears the stamp of the Creator's image , has omitted to present to our view the reverse of the ...
... less admissible , because the poet , in concentrating the powers of his imagination on the excellences of that work of creation which bears the stamp of the Creator's image , has omitted to present to our view the reverse of the ...
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... less open to observation , let us consider the occasional effects of air in the violence of a tornado ; or of water , in the inundation of a rapiu river : or let us contemplate the effect of either an indefinite diminution or increase ...
... less open to observation , let us consider the occasional effects of air in the violence of a tornado ; or of water , in the inundation of a rapiu river : or let us contemplate the effect of either an indefinite diminution or increase ...
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... less than the stayed motions and wary eye of the aged hound resemble the sedateness of the aged human being . Probably , however , it would be nearer the truth , were we to say that man , if divested of his intellectual powers , and ...
... less than the stayed motions and wary eye of the aged hound resemble the sedateness of the aged human being . Probably , however , it would be nearer the truth , were we to say that man , if divested of his intellectual powers , and ...
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... less could they be taught to perform those complicated operations which result from their employment . But , it may perhaps be said , it is the mind , the in- tellectual power of man , which enables him to pro- duce the effects in ...
... less could they be taught to perform those complicated operations which result from their employment . But , it may perhaps be said , it is the mind , the in- tellectual power of man , which enables him to pro- duce the effects in ...
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... less regular mass of nervous matter called the brain : which is small , and simple in its structure , in fish ; larger , and more complicated , progressively , in rep- tiles , birds , and quadrupeds ; largest , and most com- plicated ...
... less regular mass of nervous matter called the brain : which is small , and simple in its structure , in fish ; larger , and more complicated , progressively , in rep- tiles , birds , and quadrupeds ; largest , and most com- plicated ...
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