The Temple of Nature: Or, The Origin of Society, a Poem with Philosophical NotesJones, 1825 - 100 страници |
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... Cause , 223. Life began beneath the Sea , 233. Repulsion , Attraction , Contraction , Life , 235 . Spontaneous Production of Minute Animals , 247. Irritation , Appetency , 251. Life enlarges the Earth , 265. Sensation , Volition ...
... Cause , 223. Life began beneath the Sea , 233. Repulsion , Attraction , Contraction , Life , 235 . Spontaneous Production of Minute Animals , 247. Irritation , Appetency , 251. Life enlarges the Earth , 265. Sensation , Volition ...
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... cause ! -in this terrene abode The statued galleries , 1. 176. The art of paint- Young Nature lisps , she is the child of God . ing has appeared in the early state of all societies before the invention of the alphabet . Thus when the ...
... cause ! -in this terrene abode The statued galleries , 1. 176. The art of paint- Young Nature lisps , she is the child of God . ing has appeared in the early state of all societies before the invention of the alphabet . Thus when the ...
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... cause of its production , that is of the Deity . Earths from each sun , 1. 229 . Garden , Part . I. Cant I. 1. 107 . See Botan . power of gravity must be conceived as extending from the sun to the planets , occupying that im- mense ...
... cause of its production , that is of the Deity . Earths from each sun , 1. 229 . Garden , Part . I. Cant I. 1. 107 . See Botan . power of gravity must be conceived as extending from the sun to the planets , occupying that im- mense ...
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... caused by their amatorial passion , and this assists them to find each other ; or is caused by respira- tion , which is so analagous to combustion ; or to a tendency to putridity , as in dead fish and rot- ten wood , is still to be ...
... caused by their amatorial passion , and this assists them to find each other ; or is caused by respira- tion , which is so analagous to combustion ; or to a tendency to putridity , as in dead fish and rot- ten wood , is still to be ...
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... cause of the death of Mr. Day in his diving ship . See note on Ulva , Botanic Garden , Part II . The progressive motion of fish beneath the water is produced principally by the undulation of their tails . One oblique plain of a part of ...
... cause of the death of Mr. Day in his diving ship . See note on Ulva , Botanic Garden , Part II . The progressive motion of fish beneath the water is produced principally by the undulation of their tails . One oblique plain of a part of ...
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accumulated acquired Additional Note agreeable animalcules appear attractive and repulsive Beauty become blood bodies CANTO chemical chemical affinity coated jar colours combined condensed conductor consists cushion earth eggs electric atmospheres electrised excited exertion exist explosion eyes fibres flowers Galvanic pile glass greater heat and light Hence hermaphrodite insects insulated irritation kinds lacteals language larva larvæ larynx Latin language less Linneus magnetic ethers metallic microscopic animals motions nature nonconductors nouns nouns substantive novelty o'er objects organs of sense oxygen particles pass perpetual plate of air pleasure polypus possess probably produced progeny quadrupeds quantity repel repetition resinous electric ether resinous ether round scrofula Sect sensation sensorial power sensorium sexual sexual reproduction sibilant silver solitary reproduction sounds stimulus Storge surface termed tion tricity vegetable verb vitreous and resinous vitreous electric ether vitreous ether vitreous or resinous viviparous volition volvox Vorticella whence wings word young zinc Zoonomia
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Страница 59 - ... for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
Страница 13 - Last, as fine goads the gluten-threads excite, Cords grapple cords, and webs with webs unite; And quick CONTRACTION with ethereal flame Lights into life the fibre-woven frame. — Hence without parent by spontaneous birth Rise the first specks of animated earth;22 From Nature's womb the plant or insect swims, And buds or breathes, with microscopic limbs....
Страница 60 - O'er seas and soils, prolific hordes! would spread Erelong, and deluge their terraqueous bed; But war, and pestilence, disease, and dearth, Sweep the superfluous myriads from the earth.
Страница 15 - ORGANIC LIFE beneath the shoreless waves Was born and nurs'd in Ocean's pearly caves First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass; These, as successive generations bloom, New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume; Whence countless groups of vegetation spring, And breathing realms of fin, and feet, and wing.
Страница 35 - When the babe, soon after it is born into this cold world, is applied to its mother's bosom; its sense of perceiving warmth is first agreeably affected ; next its sense of smell is delighted with the odour of her milk; then its taste is gratified by the flavour of it; afterwards the appetites of hunger and...
Страница 25 - ... animal. So the horns of the stag are sharp to offend his adversary, but are branched for the purpose of parrying or receiving the thrusts of horns similar to his own, and have therefore been formed for the purpose of combating other stags for the exclusive possession of the females, who are observed, like the ladies In the times of chivalry, to attend the car of the victor.
Страница 32 - ... which reside in the muscles or organs of sense. Association is an exertion or change of some extreme part of the sensorium residing in the muscles or organs of sense, in consequence of some antecedent or attendant fibrous contractions.
Страница 25 - A great want of one part of the animal world has consisted in the desire of the exclusive possession of the females ; and these have acquired weapons to combat each other for this purpose...
Страница 70 - ... them is reproduced, the other has a tendency to accompany or succeed it. When fibrous contractions succeed or accompany other fibrous contractions, the...
Страница 15 - Britannia's thunders on the flood; The Whale, unmeasured monster of the main; The lordly lion, monarch of the plain; The eagle, soaring in the realms of air, Whose eye, undazzled, drinks the solar glare; Imperious man, who rules the bestial crowd, Of language, reason, and reflection proud, With brow erect, who scorns this earthy sod, And styles himself the image of his God...