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 FacultiesW. Pickering, 1833 - 280 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 52
... appear to be connected with the absolute size of their brain for animals most different and even opposite in ... appears that the proportional size of the brain is not a more certain criterion than the absolute size . 52 NERVOUS ...
... appear to be connected with the absolute size of their brain for animals most different and even opposite in ... appears that the proportional size of the brain is not a more certain criterion than the absolute size . 52 NERVOUS ...
الصفحة 53
... appears that the brain of some of the genera of the lowest orders in a class is proportion- ally larger than that of ... appear to be any connexion be- tween the degree of intellectual faculties and the mutual proportions of the several ...
... appears that the brain of some of the genera of the lowest orders in a class is proportion- ally larger than that of ... appear to be any connexion be- tween the degree of intellectual faculties and the mutual proportions of the several ...
الصفحة 54
... appears , from a review of what has been advanced , that no criterion of the degree of intellect is found in the absolute size of the brain ; nor in its relative size , as compared with that of the body of the individual ; nor in the ...
... appears , from a review of what has been advanced , that no criterion of the degree of intellect is found in the absolute size of the brain ; nor in its relative size , as compared with that of the body of the individual ; nor in the ...
الصفحة 55
... appear that , with the doubtful ex- ception of the nerves of smell and sight , not a single nerve of the whole body ... appears from Dr. Gall's own account , that he was originally led to this peculiar train of thought by observing the ...
... appear that , with the doubtful ex- ception of the nerves of smell and sight , not a single nerve of the whole body ... appears from Dr. Gall's own account , that he was originally led to this peculiar train of thought by observing the ...
الصفحة 61
... appear , on the ground either of reason or of religion , any thing objectionable or ab- surd in the assumption , antecedently to observation , that the intellectual and moral tendencies of the soul may in a qualified sense be determined ...
... appear , on the ground either of reason or of religion , any thing objectionable or ab- surd in the assumption , antecedently to observation , that the intellectual and moral tendencies of the soul may in a qualified sense be determined ...
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الصفحة 22 - ... then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
الصفحة 181 - The heavens declare the glory of God ; and the firmament showeth his handy work. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge.
الصفحة 184 - 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.
الصفحة 95 - 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.
الصفحة 166 - 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.
الصفحة 100 - ... the merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble...
الصفحة 133 - ... mark ; but the coral sand and other broken remnants thrown up by the sea, adhere to the rock, and form a solid mass with it, as high as the common tides reach. That elevation, surpassed the future remnants, being rarely covered, lose their adhesive property...
الصفحة 77 - ... of different sizes, the most common being made of mud and sticks like an oven, but the mode of raising the steam is exactly the same. Among both these nations it is very uncommon for a man to bathe alone, he is generally accompanied by one, or sometimes several of his acquaintances ; indeed it is so essentially a social amusement, that to decline going in to bathe when invited by a friend, is one of the highest indignities which can be offered to him.