The Physiology of Common Life, 2. kötet

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D. Appleton, 1860
 

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247. oldal - THE baby new to earth and sky, What time his tender palm is prest Against the circle of the breast, Has never thought that ' this is I : ' But as he grows he gathers much, And learns the use of ' I,' and 'me,' And finds ' I am not what I see, And other than the things I touch.
409. oldal - EVENINGS AT THE MICROSCOPE ; or, Researches among the Minuter Organs and Forms of Animal Life. By P. H. GOSSE, Esq., FRS A new edition, revised and annotated. Post 8vo Cloth boards 4 o FAN'S SILKEN STRING. By ANNETTE LYSTER, author of " Northwind and Sunshine,
145. oldal - The reflexion of sensorial into motor impressions, which takes place in the sensorium commune, is not performed according to mere physical laws, where the angle of reflexion is equal to the angle of incidence...
71. oldal - One thinks the Soul is air, another fire, Another blood, diffused about the heart; Another saith, the elements conspire, And to her essence each doth give a part. Musicians think our Souls are harmonies, Physicians hold that they complexions be; Epicures make them swarms of atomies Which do by chance into our bodies flee.
295. oldal - ... forward returned, with the welcome news that a fire was kindled about a quarter of a mile farther on the way. Mr Banks then endeavoured to wake Dr Solander, and happily succeeded : But, though he had not slept five minutes, he had almost lost the use of his limbs, and the muscles were so shrunk that his shoes fell from his feet; he consented to go forward with such assistance as could be given him, but no attempts to relieve poor Richmond were successful.
89. oldal - I have a case which I think you would like to see. It is a man who has been insensible for many months ; he lies on his back with very few signs of life ; he breathes indeed, has a pulse, and some motion in his fingers ; but in all other respects he is apparently deprived of all powers of mind, volition, or sensation.
321. oldal - ... of the parts concerned in vision. The most remarkable of the many examples known to me, is that of a family where four out of five children otherwise healthy, became totally blind from amaurosis about the age of twelve ; the vision having been gradually impaired up to this time. What adds to the singularity of this case is the existence of some family monument long prior in date, where a female ancestor is represented with several children around her, the inscription recording that all the number...
236. oldal - The symmetry of his body is not the cause ; the statue of the finest proportion must be soldered to its pedestal, or the wind will cast it down. How is it, then, that a man sustains the perpendicular posture, or inclines in due degree towards the winds that blow upon him? It is obvious that he has a sense by which he knows the inclination of his body, and that he has a ready aptitude to adjust it, and to correct any deviation from the perpendicular.
354. oldal - is a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences.

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