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... nature and art , depends upon it ; that it governs the flow of rivers , and the fall of cataracts , and the gentle rains , and the gentler dews , and the invisible air ; that it guides the motion of the water - mill , the aim of gunnery ...
... nature and art , depends upon it ; that it governs the flow of rivers , and the fall of cataracts , and the gentle rains , and the gentler dews , and the invisible air ; that it guides the motion of the water - mill , the aim of gunnery ...
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... nature ; -that , what has been , must continue to be ; that art is never perfect , and nature is inexhaustible ; that science , while it is the master of art , is itself ultimately dependent upon it ; that the intellectual power grows ...
... nature ; -that , what has been , must continue to be ; that art is never perfect , and nature is inexhaustible ; that science , while it is the master of art , is itself ultimately dependent upon it ; that the intellectual power grows ...
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minion of mind , farther and farther , over the elements of nature , and by making those elements , themselves ... natural agencies and the tendencies of inert matter , are brought to the succour and assistance of human strength . It is ...
minion of mind , farther and farther , over the elements of nature , and by making those elements , themselves ... natural agencies and the tendencies of inert matter , are brought to the succour and assistance of human strength . It is ...
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... natural moving powers , animate or inanimate ; in the manner of modifying those powers , and of increasing the intensity of ... nature , and to subdue them to himself . But it is true , also , that his own animal organization gives him ...
... natural moving powers , animate or inanimate ; in the manner of modifying those powers , and of increasing the intensity of ... nature , and to subdue them to himself . But it is true , also , that his own animal organization gives him ...
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... nature of his own physical wants , which lead him to the deserts , and give him for his favourite home the torrid ... natural wants . If he had wanted no more than the beasts , who can say how much more than they , he would have attained ...
... nature of his own physical wants , which lead him to the deserts , and give him for his favourite home the torrid ... natural wants . If he had wanted no more than the beasts , who can say how much more than they , he would have attained ...
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Page 231 - It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion : for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no farther ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Page 9 - Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or on wide waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air ; — Fair crews triumphant, leaning from above, Shall wave their fluttering kerchiefs as they move, Or warrior bands alarm the gaping crowd, And armies shrink beneath the shadowy cloud.
Page 22 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent. Then THY sun...
Page 231 - ... placed so many valves without design ; and no design seemed more probable, than that since the blood could not well, because of the interposing valves, be sent by the veins to the limbs, it should be sent through the arteries and return through the veins, whose valves did not oppose its course that way.
Page 304 - Led by this indication he tries the effect of iodine on that complaint, and the result establishes the extraordinary fact that this singular substance, taken as. a medicine, acts with the utmost promptitude and energy on goitre, dissipating the largest and most inveterate in a short time, and acting (of course, like all medicines, even ihe most approved, with occasional failures,) as a specific, or natural antagonist, against that odious deformity.
Page 139 - ... about it. If you see another instrument or animal, in some respects like, but differing in other particulars, you find it pleasing to compare them together, and to note in what they agree, and in what they differ. Now, all this kind of gratification is of a pure and disinterested nature, and has no reference to any of the common purposes of life ; yet it is a pleasure — an enjoyment. You are nothing the richer for it ; you do not gratify your palate, or any other bodily appetite ; and...
Page 51 - Hercules, and to which human ingenuity is capable of fitting a thousand times as many hands as belonged to Briareus. Steam is found in triumphant operation on the seas ; and under the influence of its strong propulsion, the gallant ship, " Against the wind, against the tide, Still steadies, with an upright keel.
Page 11 - I elevated myself upon a platform, and addressed the assembly. I stated that I knew not what was the matter; but, if they would be quiet and indulge me for a half-hour, I would either go on or abandon the voyage for that time.
Page 319 - ... why should we despair that the reason which has enabled us to subdue all nature to our purposes, should (if permitted and assisted by the providence of God) achieve a far more difficult conquest ; and ultimately find some means of enabling the collective wisdom of mankind to bear down those obstacles which individual short-sightedness, selfishness, and passion, oppose to all improvements, and by which the highest hopes are continually blighted, and the fairest prospects marred.
Page 139 - ... enjoyment. You are nothing the richer for it; you do not gratify your palate or any other bodily appetite; and yet it is so pleasing, that you would give something out of your pocket to obtain it, and would forego some bodily enjoyment for its sake. The pleasure derived from Science is exactly of the like nature, or, rather, it is the very same.