Caloric: Its Mechanical, Chemical, and Vital Agencies in the Phenomena of Nature, Volume 2W. Pickering, 1843 - Heat |
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... universal consent with which they regarded elementary fire as the organizing principle ; a doctrine which , although but vaguely understood by the ancients , was the basis of all their physical theories ; and which , when clearly ...
... universal consent with which they regarded elementary fire as the organizing principle ; a doctrine which , although but vaguely understood by the ancients , was the basis of all their physical theories ; and which , when clearly ...
Page 460
... universal common sense by which all partial and contradictory theories are , sooner or later , swept away . It was from beholding everywhere the trans- forming and life - giving power of the sun , as dis- played in the generation and ...
... universal common sense by which all partial and contradictory theories are , sooner or later , swept away . It was from beholding everywhere the trans- forming and life - giving power of the sun , as dis- played in the generation and ...
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... universal spirit or soul of nature , that they worshipped the sun , moon , and planets , with all the host of heaven , which they repre- sented as the body of God . It was the sun that was adored as the fountain of light , life , wisdom ...
... universal spirit or soul of nature , that they worshipped the sun , moon , and planets , with all the host of heaven , which they repre- sented as the body of God . It was the sun that was adored as the fountain of light , life , wisdom ...
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... universal Poet of nature . The harp of Memnon , that responded in sweet and melodious tones to the rising sun , was probably intended to represent his benign agency in filling the world with music and gladness . When he sheds his beams ...
... universal Poet of nature . The harp of Memnon , that responded in sweet and melodious tones to the rising sun , was probably intended to represent his benign agency in filling the world with music and gladness . When he sheds his beams ...
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... universal attraction that causes the loves of the elements , and binds the universe together . The generation of the world from a fluid and chaotic state , was a leading doctrine in all the an- cient oriental cosmogonies , from the time ...
... universal attraction that causes the loves of the elements , and binds the universe together . The generation of the world from a fluid and chaotic state , was a leading doctrine in all the an- cient oriental cosmogonies , from the time ...
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according action active æther Africa aliment amount of caloric ancient animal heat apoplexy arterial blood Asia atmosphere augmented birds blooded animals body bowels brain caloric capillaries carbon and hydrogen carbonic acid cause cent ceteris paribus chemical chiefly cholera chyle chyme circulation climates coagulation cold stage colour Cullen Davy death deranged diminished disease Europe exertion experiments exposure fact fever fibrin fluid functions greater greatly heart Hippocrates hydrogen hydrophobia impaired inflammation influence less Liebig living lungs maintained mammalia matter minutes motion muscles muscular natural standard nearly nerves nervous system nitrogen nourishment observed organs owing oxygen perature physiologists pleurisy portion principle produced proportion quantity reason regard respiration sanguification secretion shewn sleep solids spasmodic species stomach summer symptoms temperament temperature tetanus theory thorax tion tissues tropical typhus vegetable venous blood vessels vital energy vital properties warm bath winter yellow fever
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Page 472 - Ring out, ye crystal spheres ! Once bless our human ears (If ye have power to touch our senses so), And let your silver chime Move in melodious time ; And let the bass of heaven's deep organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
Page 460 - Let us adore the supremacy of that divine Sun, the Godhead, who illuminates all, who recreates all, from whom all proceed, to whom all must return, whom we invoke to direct our understandings aright in our progress towards his holy seat.
Page 452 - An active Principle : — howe'er removed From sense and observation, it subsists In all things, in all natures; in the stars Of azure heaven, the unenduring clouds, In flower and tree, in every pebbly stone That paves the brooks, the stationary rocks, The moving waters, and the invisible air. Whate'er exists hath properties that spread Beyond itself, communicating good, A simple blessing, or with evil mixed; Spirit that knows no insulated spot, No chasm, no solitude; from link to link It circulates,...
Page 466 - The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep.
Page 613 - That, changed through all, and yet in all the same; Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees; Lives through all life, extends through all extent; Spreads undivided, operates unspent!
Page 467 - Ante mare et terras et quod tegit omnia caelum 5 unus erat toto naturae vultus in orbe, quem dixere chaos : rudis indigestaque moles nee quicquam nisi pondus iners congestaque eodem non bene iunctarum discordia semina rerum.
Page 1080 - Hail, great physician of the world, all hail; Hail, mighty infant, who in years to come Shalt heal the nations and defraud the tomb; Swift be thy growth! thy triumphs unconfined!
Page 904 - Consequently, if in consequence of a diseased transformation of living tissues, a greater amount of force be generated than is required for the production of the normal motions, it is seen in an acceleration of all or some of the involuntary motions, as well as in a higher temperature of the diseased part.
Page 1037 - Such, however, is, at the same time, the nature of the animal economy, that this debility proves an indirect stimulus to the sanguiferous system ; whence, by the intervention of the cold stage and spasm connected with it, the action of the heart and larger arteries is increased, and continues so till it has had the effect of restoring the energy of the brain, of extending this energy to the extreme vessels, of restoring...
Page 529 - See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving, vegetate again : All forms that perish other forms supply, (By turns we catch the vital breath, and die,) Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.