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Side 4
... shape of a bow . This gristle or cartilage between the vertebræ is so elastic or springy , and also so readily compressed , that people who stand or walk much , are really a little shorter at night than they are in the morning . Rest ...
... shape of a bow . This gristle or cartilage between the vertebræ is so elastic or springy , and also so readily compressed , that people who stand or walk much , are really a little shorter at night than they are in the morning . Rest ...
Side 33
... shape , like a French bean . Their use is to filter or separate from the blood the superabundant fluid , and salts and juices . unnecessary for the system ; and transmit these , by means of two small tubes ( from the middle of the ...
... shape , like a French bean . Their use is to filter or separate from the blood the superabundant fluid , and salts and juices . unnecessary for the system ; and transmit these , by means of two small tubes ( from the middle of the ...
Side 37
... shape . The exercise of seeing , then , may be thus further de- scribed : - " The rays of light ( fig . A ) , entering from all direc- tions , in passing through the eye , strike first upon the cornea ( fig . B ) , then pass through the ...
... shape . The exercise of seeing , then , may be thus further de- scribed : - " The rays of light ( fig . A ) , entering from all direc- tions , in passing through the eye , strike first upon the cornea ( fig . B ) , then pass through the ...
Side 40
... shape of an object , by handling it ; but the properties that have a relation to light , such as colour and brilliancy , and also the form and size of bodies that are beyond our reach , can be recognized by sight only . " * How wisely ...
... shape of an object , by handling it ; but the properties that have a relation to light , such as colour and brilliancy , and also the form and size of bodies that are beyond our reach , can be recognized by sight only . " * How wisely ...
Side 41
... shape , and when well formed , one of the most ornamental , as well as useful parts of the bodily frame . It is not elongated , like that of many other animals , especially of one I need not name ; nor flapping down like that of others ...
... shape , and when well formed , one of the most ornamental , as well as useful parts of the bodily frame . It is not elongated , like that of many other animals , especially of one I need not name ; nor flapping down like that of others ...
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ANATOMY animals aqueous humour arteries auditory nerve ball beautiful bile blood blood-vessels brain breathe cartilage cavities centre chyle chyme colour Combe's Principles connected contrivance conveyed cornea Coventry Creator crystalline lens delicate digestion disease duodenum epidermis excite eyelids feeling fingers FLEET STREET flesh fluid GASTRIC JUICE glands gristle hair hand head heart hinge House I Live human body human frame injury JAMES OGILVY joints juice Lectures ligaments liver lower lungs motion mouth mucus muscles nerves nose nostrils object pain palate pass person Philosophy Physiology portion preservation produce pupil quantity rays of light resembles respiration retina ribs round saliva secretion sensation sense of smell sense of taste skin skull sneezing soft sound speaking spinal marrow stomach structure substance surface tears teeth thin throat tion tongue tube tympanum upper various vertebræ vessels vitreous humour whole word
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Side 1 - My substance, was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes, did see my substance, yet being imperfect ; and, in thy book, all my members, were written, which, in continuance, were fashioned, when, as yet, there was none of them.
Side 55 - How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God ! How great is the sum of them ! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I awake, I am still with thee.
Side 33 - Contrivance proves design ; and the predominant tendency of the contrivance indicates the disposition of the designer. The world abounds with contrivances ; and all the contrivances which we are acquainted with, are directed to beneficial purposes. Evil, no doubt, exists ; but is never, that we can perceive, the object of contrivance.
Side 39 - And fades the grass away. 3 Our life contains a thousand springs, And dies if one be gone : Strange ! that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long.
Side 33 - If he had wished our misery, he might have made sure of his purpose, by forming our senses to be so many sores and pains to us...
Side 33 - No anatomist ever discovered a system of organization calculated to produce pain and disease; or, in explaining the parts of the human body, ever said, this is to irritate; this to inflame...
Side 28 - Hunter's pithy remark is quoted, "some physiologists will have it, that the stomach is a mill, others, that it is a fermenting vat, others, again, that it is a stew-pan; but, in my view of the matter, it is neither a mill, a fermenting vat nor a stew-pan ; but a stomach, gentlemen, a stomach.
Side 39 - What rivers of tears have flown, excited by the cruel and perverse ways of man ! War has spread its carnage and desolation, and the eyes of widows and orphans have been suffused with tears ! Intemperance has blighted the homes of millions, and weeping and wailing have been incessant ! A thousand other evils which we may conquer, have given birth to tears enough to constirnte a flood — a great tide of grief.
Side 1 - I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made : marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Side 55 - ... the heart, placed in the centre, is the focus where the blood collects, or the acting power by means of which it circulates and is preserved : the lungs, by means of another power draw in the external air and expel hurtful vapours : the stomach and intestines are the magazines where every thing that is required for the daily supply is prepared: the brain, that seat of the soul, is formed in a manner suitable to the dignity of its inhabitant: the senses, which are the soul's ministers, warn it...