Proceedings of the Literary & Philosophical Society of Liverpool, 第 14~15 巻The Society, 1860 |
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... illustrations will be taken first from the domain of science . Between many extremes which were once considered to be wholly disconnected , it has long been known that no boundary line exists . Heat and cold , light and darkness , may ...
... illustrations will be taken first from the domain of science . Between many extremes which were once considered to be wholly disconnected , it has long been known that no boundary line exists . Heat and cold , light and darkness , may ...
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... illustrated by photography . The three primary colours obtained by the decomposition of white light were for a long time considered to be elementary , the intermediate hues of the spectrum being attributed to a kind of mechanical ...
... illustrated by photography . The three primary colours obtained by the decomposition of white light were for a long time considered to be elementary , the intermediate hues of the spectrum being attributed to a kind of mechanical ...
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... illustration of the course we have been con- sidering . Comprehensive as may appear the views of M. Agassiz respecting specific distinctions , they seem to afford us a philosophical conception rather than an exact definition . The last ...
... illustration of the course we have been con- sidering . Comprehensive as may appear the views of M. Agassiz respecting specific distinctions , they seem to afford us a philosophical conception rather than an exact definition . The last ...
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... illustrations afforded by the advancement of literature may now be briefly mentioned . To some extent , what philoso- phy and science are to nature , criticism and logic are to literature . I would , however , be understood to refer ...
... illustrations afforded by the advancement of literature may now be briefly mentioned . To some extent , what philoso- phy and science are to nature , criticism and logic are to literature . I would , however , be understood to refer ...
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... as having infallible authority . It has been my object in the foregoing series of illustrations to show that it is very much the character of truth to assume a positive rather than a circumscribed form , not therefore 26.
... as having infallible authority . It has been my object in the foregoing series of illustrations to show that it is very much the character of truth to assume a positive rather than a circumscribed form , not therefore 26.
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Agassiz amongst animals annelids appearance atmosphere Aurora beds Bidston birds Birkenhead Blackcap Bromboro Bromborough brown Bunter C. D. GINSBURG cells character Cheshire Coal COLLINGWOOD colour common consciousness coral cyclone Darwin's distinct doubt earth Edward eggs embryo exhibited existence F. P. Marrat fact Fallow deer feet fish Forest frequently genus H. H. HIGGINS habits holy homomorphism Hormuzd Huyton Quarry Insurance Keuper lamellæ light Linn Liverpool M.D. Edin magnetic marl means moss Museum Naturalists nature nest object observed occur ORDINARY MEETING Oxton paper Parsees passage Philosophical plant polyps portion present PRESIDENT Proceedings produced radicle religion remarkable resemblance rocks ROYAL INSTITUTION sandstone says seen singing Sir William Hamilton Society song species specimens spiral spotted spring Storeton strata surface temperature theory thought trees truth tube virtuous whilst Whinchat William wind woods words zoophyte Zurthost
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95 ページ - Genuine and innocent wit like this, is surely the flavour of the mind! Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food ; but God has given us wit, and flavour, and brightness, and laughter, and perfumes, to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to " charm his pained steps over the burning marie.
105 ページ - Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar...
168 ページ - The situation in which these weapons were found may tempt us to refer them to a very remote period indeed ; even beyond that of the present world...
84 ページ - Under changed conditions of life, it is at least possible that slight modifications of instinct might be profitable to a species; and if it can be shown that instincts do vary ever so little, then I can see no difficulty in natural selection preserving and continually accumulating variations of instinct to any extent that was profitable. It is thus, as I believe, that all the most complex and wonderful instincts have originated.
82 ページ - I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype.
171 ページ - At the first the piles which bear np the platforms were fixed in their places by the whole body of the citizens, but since that time the custom which has prevailed about fixing them is this:^ They are brought from a hill called Orbelus, and every man drives in three for each wife that he marries. Now the men have all many wives apiece, and this is the way in which they live. Each has his own hut, wherein he dwells, upon one of the...
82 ページ - Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth, have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.
167 ページ - Somme, in an area fifteen miles in length. I infer that a tribe of savages, to whom the use of iron was unknown, made a long sojourn in this region ; and I am reminded of a large Indian mound, which I saw in St. Simond's...
121 ページ - Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished! Reply, reply. It is engendered in the eyes. With gazing fed ; and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies. Let us all ring fancy's knell : I'll begin it, — Ding, dong, bell.
229 ページ - ... without an aim. I myself am one of these images ; nay, I am not even thus much, but only a confused image of images.