The Book of Nature, المجلد 1Wells and Lilly, 1826 |
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الصفحة 7 - of Spinosism *: — All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body nature is, and God the soul: and the general result drawn from the entire passage, which is too long to be quoted, is no less so: — In spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, WHATEVER is, is EIGHT.
الصفحة 32 - and moist and dry, In order to their stations leap, And Music's power obey. From harmony, from heav'nly harmony, This universal frame began ; From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man. What Pythagoras
الصفحة 32 - Dryden ; — From harmony, from heav'nly harmony, This universal frame began. When nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head. The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead ! Then hot and cold, and moist and dry, In order to their stations leap, And Music's power obey. From harmony, from
الصفحة 55 - the beginning ; and therefore, that nature may be lasting, the changes of corporeal things are to be placed only in the various separations, and new associations and motions of these permanent particles: compound bodies being apt to break, not in the midst of solid particles, but where those particles are laid together, and touch
الصفحة 365 - Look round the world! behold the chain of love Combining all below and all above. See plastic nature working to this end ; Atoms to atoms—clods to crystals tend.* See dying vegetables life sustain; See life dissolving, vegetate again.— All
الصفحة 54 - it seems probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles ; of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such
الصفحة 34 - Ere the radiant sun Sprang from the east, or, mid the vault of night The moon suspended her serener lamp; Ere mountains, woods, or streams adorn'd the globe, Or Wisdom taught the sons of men her lore ; Then liv'd th
الصفحة 187 - These, as they change, Almighty Father ! these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of Thee.
الصفحة 15 - are also perpetually diminishing and disappearing. It is an extraordinary fact, that within the period of the last century, not less than thirteen stars in different constellations, none of them below the sixth magnitude, seem totally to have perished; forty to have changed their magnitude by becoming either much larger or much smaller ; and ten
الصفحة 34 - each organic frame; Hence the green earth, and wild resounding waves ; Hence light and shade alternate ; warmth and cold; And clear autumnal skies, and vernal showers ; And all the fair variety of things.