Natural Theology: Or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of NatureLincoln, Edmands & Company, 1833 - 344 páginas |
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... mouth . Now , it would not have done to have had a vacuum in this cavity ; for , in that case , the pressure of the atmosphere from without would have burst the membrane which covered it . Nor would it have done to have filled the ...
... mouth . Now , it would not have done to have had a vacuum in this cavity ; for , in that case , the pressure of the atmosphere from without would have burst the membrane which covered it . Nor would it have done to have filled the ...
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... mouth is holden in the middle of the face , and its angles kept in a state of exact correspondency , by several muscles drawing against , and balancing each other . [ See Pl . XIV . fig . 3. ] In a hemiplegia , when the muscles on one ...
... mouth is holden in the middle of the face , and its angles kept in a state of exact correspondency , by several muscles drawing against , and balancing each other . [ See Pl . XIV . fig . 3. ] In a hemiplegia , when the muscles on one ...
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... mouth , appertaining to every letter and word , is not only peculiar , but , if nicely and accurately attended to , perceptible to the sight ; insomuch , that curious persons have availed themselves of this circumstance to teach the OF ...
... mouth , appertaining to every letter and word , is not only peculiar , but , if nicely and accurately attended to , perceptible to the sight ; insomuch , that curious persons have availed themselves of this circumstance to teach the OF ...
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... mouth , in some of their other properties . It has been said , and that by an eminent physiologist , that , whenever nature attempts to work two or more purposes by one instrument , she does both or all imperfectly . Is this true of the ...
... mouth , in some of their other properties . It has been said , and that by an eminent physiologist , that , whenever nature attempts to work two or more purposes by one instrument , she does both or all imperfectly . Is this true of the ...
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... mouth more distinct uses , and parts executing more dis- tinct offices , than I think can be found lying so near to one another , or within the same compass , in any other por-- tion of the body : viz . teeth of different shape ...
... mouth more distinct uses , and parts executing more dis- tinct offices , than I think can be found lying so near to one another , or within the same compass , in any other por-- tion of the body : viz . teeth of different shape ...
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Página 6 - ... the inference, we think, is inevitable; that the watch must have had a maker; that there must have existed, at sometime, and at some place or other, an artificer or artificers, who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use.
Página 255 - If he had been indifferent about our happiness or misery, we must impute to our good fortune (as all design by this supposition is excluded) both the capacity of our senses to receive pleasure, and the supply of external objects fitted to produce it.
Página 5 - For this reason, and for no other, viz., that, when we come to inspect the watch, we perceive (what we could not discover in the stone) that its several parts are framed and put together for a purpose, eg that they are so formed and adjusted as to produce motion, and that motion so regulated as to point out the hour of the day...
Página 222 - A law presupposes an agent; for it is only the mode, according to which an agent proceeds: it implies a power; for it is the order, according to which that power acts. Without this agent, without this power, which are both distinct from itself, the law does nothing; is nothing. The expression, the law of metallic nature...
Página 156 - Not to take notice of her covering it from the injuries of the weather, providing it proper nourishment, and teaching it to help itself; nor to mention her forsaking the nest, if, after the usual time of reckoning, the young one does not make its appearance. A...
Página 5 - But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place: I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given, that, for any thing I knew, the watch might have always been there.
Página 243 - Herein is the exact difference between the young and the old. The young are not happy, but when enjoying pleasure ; the old are happy, when free from pain. And this constitution suits with the degrees of animal power which they respectively possess. The...
Página 282 - ... be more desirable than another, it is that which regards the phenomena of nature with a constant reference to a supreme intelligent Author. To have made this the ruling, the habitual sentiment of our minds, is to have laid the foundation of every thing which is religious.
Página 63 - ... two little muscles that serve to lift up the eyelids, and so had almost lost the use of his sight, being forced, as long as this defect lasted, to shove up his eyelids every moment with his own hands...
Página 242 - If we look to what the waters produce, shoals of the fry of fish frequent the margins of rivers, of lakes, and of the sea itself. These are so happy, that they know not what to do with themselves. Their attitudes...