Animal and Vegetable Physiology Considered with Reference to Natural TheologyW. Pickering, 1834 - Biology |
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... ment are displayed in endless variety around us ; where life in its ever - changing forms meets the eye in every region to which our researches can extend ; and where every element and every clime is peopled by multitudinous races of ...
... ment are displayed in endless variety around us ; where life in its ever - changing forms meets the eye in every region to which our researches can extend ; and where every element and every clime is peopled by multitudinous races of ...
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... ment and of suffering . Can there be a more gratifying spectacle than to see an animal in the full vigour of health , and the free exercise of its powers , disporting in its native element , revelling in the bliss of existence , and ...
... ment and of suffering . Can there be a more gratifying spectacle than to see an animal in the full vigour of health , and the free exercise of its powers , disporting in its native element , revelling in the bliss of existence , and ...
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... ment is specious only because it is true in one particular sense , and that a very limited one . Those who urge it , do not seem to be aware that its general application , in that very same sense , would shake the foundation of every ...
... ment is specious only because it is true in one particular sense , and that a very limited one . Those who urge it , do not seem to be aware that its general application , in that very same sense , would shake the foundation of every ...
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... only elements by which it is possible for us to estimate the analogous powers and attributes of other minds . The difficulty of applying this scale of measure- ment will , of course , increase in proportion to 26 FINAL CAUSES .
... only elements by which it is possible for us to estimate the analogous powers and attributes of other minds . The difficulty of applying this scale of measure- ment will , of course , increase in proportion to 26 FINAL CAUSES .
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Peter Mark Roget. ment will , of course , increase in proportion to the difference between the objects compared ; and although we may conceive that there are powers and intelligences infinitely surpassing our own , the conceptions we can ...
Peter Mark Roget. ment will , of course , increase in proportion to the difference between the objects compared ; and although we may conceive that there are powers and intelligences infinitely surpassing our own , the conceptions we can ...
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action animal animalcules Annelida appear arrangement articulated attached axis belonging bivalve body bones calcareous cartilage cavity cells cellular Cetacea cilia composed constitute construction Crustacea Cuvier deposited developement direction effect elastic employed exhibit existence expanded extended external extremity feet fins fishes fluid Flustra foot force functions furnished gemmules growth insects integuments internal joints kind larva larvæ layer legs length ligament limbs longitudinal magnified mantle materials matter mechanical membrane ment mesothorax microscope mode Mollusca movements moving muscles muscular fibres nature objects observed organs original osseous ossification plants plates polypes porcellaneous portion progressive motion purpose quadrupeds ribs scales seen segments shape shell side skeleton solid species spinal spine spinous processes sponge sternum stomata structure substance suckers surface tail tentacula termed texture tion transverse transverse processes tribes trunk tube valves vegetable vertebræ vessels Vorticella whole wings Zoophytes
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Page xvi - ON THE POWER WISDOM AND GOODNESS OF GOD AS MANIFESTED IN THE ADAPTATION OF EXTERNAL, NATURE TO THE MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL CONSTITUTION OF MAN.
Page 126 - I beheld, for the first time, the splendid spectacle of this living fountain vomiting forth from a circular cavity an impetuous torrent of liquid matter, and hurling along, in rapid succession, opaque masses, which it strewed everywhere around. The beauty and novelty of such a scene in the animal kingdom long arrested my attention...
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Page 197 - ... and securing itself from dangerous collisions, which might easily destroy the brittle texture of its shell. The object of this apparatus is to prepare a great number of threads, which are fastened at various points to the adjacent rocks, and then tightly drawn by the animal, just as a ship is moored in a convenient station, to avoid the buffeting of the storm. The foot of this bivalve is cylindrical, and has, connected with its base, a round tendon, of nearly the same length as itself, the office...
Page 126 - ... around. The beauty and novelty of such a scene in the animal kingdom, long arrested my attention, but, after twenty-five minutes of constant observation^ I was obliged to withdraw my eye from fatigue, without having seen the torrent for one instant change its direction, or diminish, in the slightest degree, the rapidity of its course. I continued to watch the same orifice, at short intervals, for five hours, sometimes observing it for a quarter of an hour at a time, but still the stream rolled...
Page 21 - 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.
Page xvii - MDFRS CHEMISTRY, METEOROLOGY, AND THE FUNCTION OF DIGESTION, CONSIDERED WITH REFERENCE TO NATURAL THEOLOGY. His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF SUSSEX, President of the Royal Society, having desired that no unnecessary delay should take place in the publication of the above mentioned treatises, they will appear at short intervals, as they are ready for publication.
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Page 353 - ... animals than to those which had already attained their full size. Thus the bones of a young pigeon were tinged of a rose colour in twenty-four hours, and of a deep scarlet in three days ; while in the adult bird, fifteen days were required merely to produce the rose colour. The dye was more intense in the solid parts of those bones which were nearest to the centre of circulation, while in bones of equal solidity, but more remote from the heart, the tinge was fainter. The bone was of a deeper...
Page 63 - ... of a new bud : and at the same time a layer of cellular tissue is formed by the deposition of new materials on the outside of the former wood, and between it and the bark. This is followed by a second layer of wood, enveloping the new layer of cellular tissue. The effect of this new growth is to compress the layer of wood which had been formed during the first year, and to impede its further extension in breadth.