WinterHarpers & Brothers, 1855 |
Des de l'interior del llibre
Resultats 1 - 5 de 51.
Pàgina xiv
... Motions of the Planets , • 99 102 Resisting Medium , 105 v . SUNDAY . - Divine and Human Knowledge com- pared , 110 The Satellites , 114 Relative Proportions of the Planetary System , Distances of the Fixed Stars , Immensity of the ...
... Motions of the Planets , • 99 102 Resisting Medium , 105 v . SUNDAY . - Divine and Human Knowledge com- pared , 110 The Satellites , 114 Relative Proportions of the Planetary System , Distances of the Fixed Stars , Immensity of the ...
Pàgina 14
... motions of the body ; the mere weight of one part on another , or the motion of the joint , would have been attended with that degree of suffering which we experience in using or walking upon an inflamed limb . " But , on the other hand ...
... motions of the body ; the mere weight of one part on another , or the motion of the joint , would have been attended with that degree of suffering which we experience in using or walking upon an inflamed limb . " But , on the other hand ...
Pàgina 15
... motion in the upper extremity at the ball and socket joint of the shoulder , -the firmness of the artic- ulation of the elbow , and yet how admirably it is suited to the cooperation of the hands , -the fineness of the mo- tion of the ...
... motion in the upper extremity at the ball and socket joint of the shoulder , -the firmness of the artic- ulation of the elbow , and yet how admirably it is suited to the cooperation of the hands , -the fineness of the mo- tion of the ...
Pàgina 17
... motion , or , having a yearly motion , were to move round its own axis in what may be considered the most simple manner , that is , in an erect position with reference to the sun , the effect would be , that he would constantly shine ...
... motion , or , having a yearly motion , were to move round its own axis in what may be considered the most simple manner , that is , in an erect position with reference to the sun , the effect would be , that he would constantly shine ...
Pàgina 20
... motion , and flows back in a perpetual under - current towards the equator . This , at least , is its general bias , happily modi- fied , however , by various circumstances and disturbing forces , which retard , divert , and mingle the ...
... motion , and flows back in a perpetual under - current towards the equator . This , at least , is its general bias , happily modi- fied , however , by various circumstances and disturbing forces , which retard , divert , and mingle the ...
Continguts
188 | |
195 | |
200 | |
209 | |
219 | |
227 | |
235 | |
244 | |
66 | |
72 | |
79 | |
85 | |
89 | |
96 | |
102 | |
110 | |
117 | |
123 | |
131 | |
139 | |
146 | |
154 | |
162 | |
170 | |
176 | |
253 | |
262 | |
272 | |
281 | |
289 | |
297 | |
304 | |
310 | |
319 | |
325 | |
334 | |
341 | |
349 | |
358 | |
366 | |
374 | |
Frases i termes més freqüents
adapted admiration afford animalcules animals antediluvian appear astronomy atmosphere beautiful beneficent binary stars birds body Bridgewater Treatise caterpillars cause character climate cold contrivance creation Creator Deluge Diluvium distance Divine double stars earth eels effects eggs enjoyment Eternal fact faculties feet frost glires globe Greenland ground habits hand heat heavens human hybernation inhabitants insects instances instinct John Herschel kind land larvæ less light living matter means ment migration miles mind motion mountains nature night object observed operations operculum orbit organized existences pass peculiar perfect period planetary planetary system plants Pliocene present preserve principle produced Providence quadrupeds race regions remarkable rendered rivers rusal says season seems snow soil species spring stars subsistence summer surface temperature things tion torpidity trees tribes tropical universe various vegetable WEEK-SUNDAY WEEK-TUESDAY whole winter wisdom wonderful
Passatges populars
Pàgina 179 - Go to the ant, thou sluggard ; consider her ways, and be wise: which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Pàgina 252 - As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings; so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Pàgina 383 - And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
Pàgina 87 - My grace is sufficient for thee, my strength is made perfect in weakness.
Pàgina 378 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Pàgina 384 - They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
Pàgina 235 - O Lord, how manifold are thy works ! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
Pàgina 364 - I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Pàgina 366 - And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man : All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
Pàgina 360 - And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day, and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.