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 Exogens external feet fibers filaments Fishes flowers fluid formed material four frond Fungi gelatinous germs gills grow growth horny Infusoria Insects jaws jointed layer leaves legs limbs living matter living things mass maxillæ membrane microscope minute Mollusks Monistic 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 spirit 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 135 - 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 279 - 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 118 - 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 23 - So is this great and wide sea, Wherein are things creeping innumerable, Both small and great beasts. There go the ships : There is that leviathan, whom THOU hast made to play therein.
Seite 289 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Seite 289 - 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 190 - I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell ; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.
Seite 23 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled : thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created : and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Seite 211 - CHILD of the sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight. Mingling with her thou lov'st in fields of light; And, where the flowers of paradise unfold, Quaff fragrant nectar from their cups of gold. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky Expand and shut with silent...
Seite 289 - 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.