The Temple of Nature: Or, The Origin of Society, a Poem with Philosophical NotesJones, 1825 - Počet stran: 100 |
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... things , and the most ancient of the gods ; and adds , that he keeps the keys of Nature , Danet's Dict . all which might well accord with a figure repre- senting Time . Rings join to rings , and irritated tubes cubes ; 10 [ Canto 1 ...
... things , and the most ancient of the gods ; and adds , that he keeps the keys of Nature , Danet's Dict . all which might well accord with a figure repre- senting Time . Rings join to rings , and irritated tubes cubes ; 10 [ Canto 1 ...
Strana 11
... things ; as mentioned in the note on the Portland Vase in the Botanic Garden . Next the marriage of Cupid and Psyche seems to have shown the re- production of living nature ; and afterwards the procession of torches , which is said to ...
... things ; as mentioned in the note on the Portland Vase in the Botanic Garden . Next the marriage of Cupid and Psyche seems to have shown the re- production of living nature ; and afterwards the procession of torches , which is said to ...
Strana 13
... things are There seems nothing more wonderful in the immersed , and which constitutes the general ether of contraction producing the shortening of power of repulsion ; as appears in explosions a fibre , than in the ether of attraction ...
... things are There seems nothing more wonderful in the immersed , and which constitutes the general ether of contraction producing the shortening of power of repulsion ; as appears in explosions a fibre , than in the ether of attraction ...
Strana 24
... things . 1 New sexes next with softer passions spring , Breathe the fond vow , and woo with quivering wing . [ grove , " So erst in Paradise creation's Lord , As the first leaves of holy writ record , From Adam's rib , who press'd the ...
... things . 1 New sexes next with softer passions spring , Breathe the fond vow , and woo with quivering wing . [ grove , " So erst in Paradise creation's Lord , As the first leaves of holy writ record , From Adam's rib , who press'd the ...
Strana 25
... things , And hides her sorrows with her meeting wings ; Long o'er the wrecks of lovely Life they weep , Then pleased reflect , " to die is but to sleep , " And , fell Consumption , 1. 183.— Hæret lateri lethalis arundo . VIRG 232 Charm ...
... things , And hides her sorrows with her meeting wings ; Long o'er the wrecks of lovely Life they weep , Then pleased reflect , " to die is but to sleep , " And , fell Consumption , 1. 183.— Hæret lateri lethalis arundo . VIRG 232 Charm ...
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accumulated acquired Additional Note agreeable animalcules appear attractive and repulsive Beauty become blood bodies CANTO chemical chemical affinity coated jar colours combined condensed conductor consists cushion earth eggs electric atmospheres electrised excited exertion exist explosion eyes fibres flowers Galvanic pile glass greater heat and light Hence hermaphrodite insects insulated irritation kinds lacteals language larva larvæ larynx Latin language less Linneus magnetic ethers metallic microscopic animals motions nature nonconductors nouns nouns substantive novelty o'er objects organs of sense oxygen particles pass perpetual plate of air pleasure polypus possess probably produced progeny quadrupeds quantity repel repetition resinous electric ether resinous ether round scrofula Sect sensation sensorial power sensorium sexual sexual reproduction sibilant silver solitary reproduction sounds stimulus Storge surface termed tion tricity vegetable verb vitreous and resinous vitreous electric ether vitreous ether vitreous or resinous viviparous volition volvox Vorticella whence wings word young zinc Zoonomia
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Strana 59 - ... 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...
Strana 13 - Last, as fine goads the gluten-threads excite, Cords grapple cords, and webs with webs unite; And quick CONTRACTION with ethereal flame Lights into life the fibre-woven frame. — Hence without parent by spontaneous birth Rise the first specks of animated earth;22 From Nature's womb the plant or insect swims, And buds or breathes, with microscopic limbs....
Strana 60 - O'er seas and soils, prolific hordes! would spread Erelong, and deluge their terraqueous bed; But war, and pestilence, disease, and dearth, Sweep the superfluous myriads from the earth.
Strana 15 - ORGANIC LIFE beneath the shoreless waves Was born and nurs'd in Ocean's pearly caves First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass; These, as successive generations bloom, New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume; Whence countless groups of vegetation spring, And breathing realms of fin, and feet, and wing.
Strana 35 - When the babe, soon after it is born into this cold world, is applied to its mother's bosom; its sense of perceiving warmth is first agreeably affected ; next its sense of smell is delighted with the odour of her milk; then its taste is gratified by the flavour of it; afterwards the appetites of hunger and...
Strana 25 - ... animal. So the horns of the stag are sharp to offend his adversary, but are branched for the purpose of parrying or receiving the thrusts of horns similar to his own, and have therefore been formed for the purpose of combating other stags for the exclusive possession of the females, who are observed, like the ladies In the times of chivalry, to attend the car of the victor.
Strana 32 - ... which reside in the muscles or organs of sense. Association is an exertion or change of some extreme part of the sensorium residing in the muscles or organs of sense, in consequence of some antecedent or attendant fibrous contractions.
Strana 25 - A great want of one part of the animal world has consisted in the desire of the exclusive possession of the females ; and these have acquired weapons to combat each other for this purpose...
Strana 70 - ... them is reproduced, the other has a tendency to accompany or succeed it. When fibrous contractions succeed or accompany other fibrous contractions, the...
Strana 15 - Britannia's thunders on the flood; The Whale, unmeasured monster of the main; The lordly lion, monarch of the plain; The eagle, soaring in the realms of air, Whose eye, undazzled, drinks the solar glare; Imperious man, who rules the bestial crowd, Of language, reason, and reflection proud, With brow erect, who scorns this earthy sod, And styles himself the image of his God...