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Page 22
... the colours occasioned by pouring a drop or two of oil on a still lake in a bright
day. But these circular irises of colours are not only different from the colours of
the filks above mentioned, but are at the same time perpetually changing as long
...
... the colours occasioned by pouring a drop or two of oil on a still lake in a bright
day. But these circular irises of colours are not only different from the colours of
the filks above mentioned, but are at the same time perpetually changing as long
...
Page 28
The most frequent causes of blindness are occasioned by defects of the external
organ, as in cataraćts and obfuscations of the cornea. But I have had the
opportunity of conversing with two men, who had been some years blind; one of
them ...
The most frequent causes of blindness are occasioned by defects of the external
organ, as in cataraćts and obfuscations of the cornea. But I have had the
opportunity of conversing with two men, who had been some years blind; one of
them ...
Page 63
... sensation, become so conjoined with them by habit, that they not only easily
obey these sensations occasioned by the stimulus of the excrement and urine,
but are brought into violent and unrestrainable action in the strangury and
tenesmus.
... sensation, become so conjoined with them by habit, that they not only easily
obey these sensations occasioned by the stimulus of the excrement and urine,
but are brought into violent and unrestrainable action in the strangury and
tenesmus.
Page 72
Whilst the passion of anger includes the pain from a recent injury, and the
aversion to the adversary that occasioned it. And compassion is the pain we
experience at the fight of misery, and the desire of relieving it. There is another
tribe of ...
Whilst the passion of anger includes the pain from a recent injury, and the
aversion to the adversary that occasioned it. And compassion is the pain we
experience at the fight of misery, and the desire of relieving it. There is another
tribe of ...
Page 93
... fibres or organs of sense; if the voluntary actions are diseased the cause is to
be looked for in the quantity of volition produced in consequence of the desire or
aversion occasioned by the painful or pleasurable sensations above mentioned.
... fibres or organs of sense; if the voluntary actions are diseased the cause is to
be looked for in the quantity of volition produced in consequence of the desire or
aversion occasioned by the painful or pleasurable sensations above mentioned.
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| Title | Zoonomia; Or, The Laws of Organic Life ... Volume 1 of Zoonomia; Or, The Laws of Organic Life, Erasmus Darwin |
| Author | Erasmus Darwin |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | J. Johnson, 1801 |
| Length | 516 pages |
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