The Science of Life; Or, Animal and Vegetable BiologyPhillips and Hunt, 1880 - 295 Seiten |
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Acrogens Algæ animalcule animals antennæ antheridia appendages arranged Articulates atoms auricle axis beautiful belong bioplasm blood body bone branches calcareous called calyx canal cavity cells cellular Chap chlorophyll cilia color contains coral corolla Crustacea digestive disk distinct embryo Endogens Exogens external feet fibers filaments Fishes flowers fluid formed material four frond Fungi gelatinous germs gills grow growth horny Hydroids Infusoria Insects jaws jointed layer leaves legs limbs living matter living things mass maxillæ membrane microscope minute Mollusks motion mouth muscular nature nerve nervous system non-living operculum organs ovary pair particles petals pistil plants plates polyps produced Protophytes Protozoa radiating resemblance shell showing side skin sometimes species spicules spines spiral sporangia sporangium spores stamens stem stomach stomata structure substance tail teeth tentacles thread tion tissue toes tribe tube vegetable ventral Vertebrates Vorticella whorl wings worms zoospores
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Seite 25 - 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.
Seite 137 - In all places, then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand their light and soullike wings, Teaching us, by most persuasive reasons, How akin they are to human things. And with childlike, credulous affection We behold their tender buds expand ; Emblems of our own great resurrection Emblems of the bright and better land.
Seite 281 - There wanted yet the master work, the end Of all yet done ; a creature who, not prone And brute as other creatures, but endued With sanctity of reason, might erect His stature, and upright with front serene Govern the rest, self-knowing, and from thence 510 Magnanimous to correspond with Heaven...
Seite 120 - I mention this to show from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation ; for though the whole plant was not larger than the top of one of my fingers, I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsula, without admiration. Can that Being, thought I, who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in this obscure part of the world, a thing which appears of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of creatures...
Seite 291 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Seite 291 - 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.
Seite 25 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled : thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust. 30 Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created ; and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Seite 291 - 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.
Seite 72 - Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be; They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
Seite 72 - Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and everywhere, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being necessarily existing.