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... proportion in the different figures ; but it is not such as enables me to exhibit a scale . Two subjects treated of in the second are omitted in this edition , 1st , " On the Harmony of the Mental Faculties with each other , and with ...
... proportion in the different figures ; but it is not such as enables me to exhibit a scale . Two subjects treated of in the second are omitted in this edition , 1st , " On the Harmony of the Mental Faculties with each other , and with ...
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... proportion in the different figures ; but it is not such as enables me to exhibit a scale . Two subjects treated of in the second are omitted in this edition , 1st , “ On the Harmony of the Mental Faculties with each other , and with ...
... proportion in the different figures ; but it is not such as enables me to exhibit a scale . Two subjects treated of in the second are omitted in this edition , 1st , “ On the Harmony of the Mental Faculties with each other , and with ...
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... proportion to the number of fibres which enter into its composition . If nerves be composed of parts , a nerve which is composed of twenty parts must be more vigorous . than one which is constituted of only one . To render this princi ...
... proportion to the number of fibres which enter into its composition . If nerves be composed of parts , a nerve which is composed of twenty parts must be more vigorous . than one which is constituted of only one . To render this princi ...
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... proportion to its greater size . If this law did not hold true , What would be the advantage of large and capacious , There could be none . over small and confined lungs ? Speaking , generally , there are two classes of nerves ...
... proportion to its greater size . If this law did not hold true , What would be the advantage of large and capacious , There could be none . over small and confined lungs ? Speaking , generally , there are two classes of nerves ...
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... proportion to the increased function . Birds require to rise in the air , which is a medium much lighter than their own bodies . To have enlarged the size of their muscles would have added to their weight , and increased their ...
... proportion to the increased function . Birds require to rise in the air , which is a medium much lighter than their own bodies . To have enlarged the size of their muscles would have added to their weight , and increased their ...
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Page 374 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Page 295 - ... 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...
Page 489 - By the imagination we place ourselves in his situation, we conceive ourselves enduring all the same torments, we enter as it were into his body, and become in some measure the same person with him, and thence form some idea of his sensations, and even feel something which, though weaker in degree, is not altogether unlike them.
Page 262 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untiitor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind ; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way ; Yet simple Nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler Heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold.
Page 414 - When I remember all The friends so linked together, I've seen around me fall Like leaves in wintry weather, I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed.
Page 262 - Yet simple Nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Page 163 - I could not forbear shaking my Head and smiling a little at his Ignorance. And, being no Stranger to the Art of War, I gave him a Description of Cannons, Culverins, Muskets, Carabines, Pistols, Bullets, Powder, Swords, Bayonets, Battles, Sieges, Retreats, Attacks, Undermines, Countermines, Bombardments, Seafights; Ships sunk with a Thousand Men; twenty Thousand killed on each Side; dying Groans, Limbs flying in the Air: Smoak, Noise, Confusion, trampling to Death under Horses...
Page 377 - Keech, the butcher's wife, come in then and call me gossip Quickly? coming in to borrow a mess of vinegar ; telling us she had a good dish of prawns; whereby thou didst desire to eat some ; whereby I told thee they were ill for a green wound...
Page 280 - I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea and the azured vault Set roaring war...
Page 163 - ... feet: flight, pursuit, victory: fields strewed with carcases left for food to dogs, and wolves, and birds of prey; plundering, stripping, ravishing, burning and destroying. And, to set forth the valour of my own dear countrymen, I assured him, that I had seen them blow up a hundred enemies at once in a siege, and as many in a ship; and beheld the dead bodies drop down in pieces from the clouds, to the great diversion of all the spectators.