A Catechism of Natural TheologyShirley and Hyde, 1829 - 184 sider |
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Side 12
... brain . You are aware how important the brain is , and that the least injury may occasion the loss of the senses , and be fol- lowed by fatal consequences . What do you remember upon this subject ? A. One anatomist remarks , " that the ...
... brain . You are aware how important the brain is , and that the least injury may occasion the loss of the senses , and be fol- lowed by fatal consequences . What do you remember upon this subject ? A. One anatomist remarks , " that the ...
Side 13
... brain to life , ( which ex- perience proves to be immediate , ) and the extreme ten- derness of its substance , make a solid case more neces- sary for it , than for any other part ; and such a case the hardness of the skull supplies ...
... brain to life , ( which ex- perience proves to be immediate , ) and the extreme ten- derness of its substance , make a solid case more neces- sary for it , than for any other part ; and such a case the hardness of the skull supplies ...
Side 14
... brain , but , wonderful to think , the head is most rounded precisely in those places , where , in falling , ⚫ it would be most likely to strike the ground . These are the middle of the forehead , the projecting part of the head behind ...
... brain , but , wonderful to think , the head is most rounded precisely in those places , where , in falling , ⚫ it would be most likely to strike the ground . These are the middle of the forehead , the projecting part of the head behind ...
Side 15
... brain , ca- pable of turning the edge of any sharp or pointed instru- ment . But then a covering hard and glassy throughout would be subject to be chipped and cracked continually . Under these circumstances , the double case is plainly ...
... brain , ca- pable of turning the edge of any sharp or pointed instru- ment . But then a covering hard and glassy throughout would be subject to be chipped and cracked continually . Under these circumstances , the double case is plainly ...
Side 16
... brain , may more effectually deprive him of sense and motion , than if an axe or a sword penetrated into the substance of the brain itself . " There is , in several respects , a remarkable structure of the head , adapted to this very ...
... brain , may more effectually deprive him of sense and motion , than if an axe or a sword penetrated into the substance of the brain itself . " There is , in several respects , a remarkable structure of the head , adapted to this very ...
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Side 56 - It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its 5 proper enjoyments.
Side 179 - Here pain and misery are the very objects of the contrivance. Now, nothing of this sort is to be found in the works of nature.
Side 178 - It is a happy world after all. The air, the earth, the water, teem with delighted existence. In a spring noon, or a summer evening, on whichever side I turn my eyes, myriads of happy beings crowd upon my view. "The insect youth are on the wing.
Side 79 - In considering the joints, there is nothing, perhaps, which ought to move our gratitude more than the reflection, how well they wear. A limb shall swing upon its hinge, or play in its socket, many hundred times in an hour, for sixty years together, without diminution of its agility, which is a long time for anything to last — for anything so much worked and exercised as the joints are.
Side 178 - At this moment, in every given moment of time, how many myriads of animals are eating their food, gratifying their appetites, ruminating in their holes, accomplishing their wishes, pursuing their pleasures, taking their pastimes ! In each individual, how many things must go right for it to be at ease; yet how large a proportion* out of every species VOL.
Side 143 - The human animal is the only one which is naked, and the only one which can clothe itself. This is one of the properties which renders him an animal of all climates, and of all seasons. He can adapt the warmth or lightness of his covering to the temperature of his habitation.
Side 6 - The works of the Lord are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.
Side 154 - Maclaurin, by a fluxionary calculation, which is to be found in the Transactions of the Royal Society of London. He has determined precisely the angle required ; and he found, by the most exact mensuration the subject could admit, that it is the very angle in which the three planes in the bottom of the cell of a honey-comb do actually meet...
Side 2 - For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house, hath more honour than the house. 4 For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.
Side 102 - Irishman travelling to the harvest with bare feet : the thickness and roundness of the calf show that the foot and toes are free to permit the exercise of the muscles of the leg. Look, again, to the leg of our English peasant, whose foot and ankle are tightly laced in a shoe with a wooden sole, and you will perceive, from the manner in which he lifts his legs, that the play of the ankle, foot, and toes is lost, as much as if he went on stilts, and, therefore, are his legs small and shapeless.