The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural History, and the Fine Arts, Band 10Edward Mammatt Simpkin and Marshall, 1840 |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 31
Seite 28
... close adherence to fact to excite inte- rest , rather than to any colouring that I might be tempted to indulge in . On a beautiful afternoon in the beginning of August , I embarked with my companion at Lausanne , on board the steam boat ...
... close adherence to fact to excite inte- rest , rather than to any colouring that I might be tempted to indulge in . On a beautiful afternoon in the beginning of August , I embarked with my companion at Lausanne , on board the steam boat ...
Seite 30
... close cords of mortality , but will be free to range at pleasure from world to world , and know clearly those hidden things which the utmost stretch of imagination cannot now guess at . I shall not often be led into these digressions ...
... close cords of mortality , but will be free to range at pleasure from world to world , and know clearly those hidden things which the utmost stretch of imagination cannot now guess at . I shall not often be led into these digressions ...
Seite 43
... close similitude in the dental characters subsists occasionally without indicating any particular affinity , and a very considerable amount of diversity also obtains , in some in- stances , between genera that are , notwithstanding ...
... close similitude in the dental characters subsists occasionally without indicating any particular affinity , and a very considerable amount of diversity also obtains , in some in- stances , between genera that are , notwithstanding ...
Seite 48
... close simili- tude to that of a child ; and the skull , also , might be taken , at an early age , for that of the latter , were it not for the development of the bones of the face . But it happens , " continues that profound anatomist ...
... close simili- tude to that of a child ; and the skull , also , might be taken , at an early age , for that of the latter , were it not for the development of the bones of the face . But it happens , " continues that profound anatomist ...
Seite 50
... close the present introductory remarks , into which we have - almost unconsciously been led , by exemplifying the analogous modification of diverse types , or the relation of what is currently termed analogy , as distinguished from ...
... close the present introductory remarks , into which we have - almost unconsciously been led , by exemplifying the analogous modification of diverse types , or the relation of what is currently termed analogy , as distinguished from ...
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admirable ancient Animal Magnetism animalcules appears beautiful Burnett cardinal Carnivora cause Cetacea character circumstances clouds colour constitution contree crocuta dark dew point distance divine effect England English evil feeling feet folio forest genera gret grete heart Henry hill hoar frost human Hyæna individual intelligence interest Jura Jura mountains king knowledge lake lake of Neuchâtel learning Lond Lord Lycaon Mammalia manner master ment Mesmer mind moneye moral mountains Natural History never night noble normal schools object observations opera Oviparous Pæon Pæony pass peony philosophy plants possess present principles Provençal racter religion remarks says sche scholars seen seyn society soon soul species spirit summit Switzerland temperature thanne thermometer thing tion town trees truth universal valley Vallorbe village virtue Viverrida whan whole Wolsey young Yverdon
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 4 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what Nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a Nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Seite 104 - Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Seite 184 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Seite 106 - I believe that this is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher ; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave Ulysses...
Seite 128 - ... crowns by the year, and loth to offer to the other two hundred shillings. God that sitteth in heaven laugheth their choice to scorn, and rewardeth their liberality as it should. For he suffereth them to...
Seite 104 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which, being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Seite 128 - It is a pity, that commonly more care is had, yea and that among very wise men, to find out rather a cunning man for their Horse, than a cunning man for their Children. They say nay in...
Seite 152 - And for als moche as it is longe tyme passed, that ther was no generalle passage ne vyage over the see ; and many men desiren for to here speke of the Holy Lond, and han thereof gret solace and comfort...
Seite 62 - On the keeper putting a spar of wood two inches in diameter into his den, he cracked it in pieces as if it had been touchwood, and in a minute the whole was reduced to a mass of splinters. The power of his jaws far exceeded any animal force of the kind I ever saw exerted, and reminded me of nothing so much as a miner's crushing mill, or the scissors with which they cut off bars of iron and copper in the metal foundries.