 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 430 pages
...most general form of nature. Every species of the animal as well as the vegetable creation may be said to have a fixed or determinate form towards which...continually inclining, like various lines terminating in the center ; or it may be compared to pendulums vibrating in different directions over one central point,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 428 pages
...most general form of nature. Every species of the animal as well as the vegetable creation may be said to have a fixed or determinate form towards which...continually inclining, like various lines terminating in the center ; or it may be compared to pendulums vibrating in different directions over one central point,... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 378 pages
...general form of nature. ' Every species of the animal as well as the vegetable creation may be said to have a fixed or determinate form towards which...continually inclining, like various lines terminating in the centfe; or it may be compared to pendulums vibrating in different directions over one central point,... | |
 | Sir Charles Bell - Anatomy, Artistic - 1824 - 266 pages
...medium or centre of the various forms of the individual ; that every species of animal has a fixed and determinate form, towards which nature is continually inclining, like various lines terminating in a centre, or like pendulums vibrating in different directions over one central point, and as they all... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 510 pages
...general form of nature. Every species of the animal as well as the vegetable creation, may be said to have a fixed or determinate form, towards which...continually inclining, like various lines terminating in thv < eutre; or it may be compared to pendulums vibrating isi tiifferent directions over one central... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 454 pages
...Reynolds. " Every species," he observes, " of the animal as well as the vegetable creation, may be said to have a fixed or determinate form, towards which...inclining, like various lines terminating in the centre; and, as these lines all cross the centre, though only one passes through any other point, so it will... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 450 pages
...Reynolds. " Every species," he observes, " of the animal as well as the vegetable creation, may be said to have a fixed or determinate form, towards which...inclining, like various lines terminating in the centre ; and, as these lines all cross the centre, though only one passes through any other point, so it will... | |
 | Great Britain - 1829 - 502 pages
...medium or centre of the various forms of the individual ;— every species of animal has a fixed and determinate form, towards which nature is continually inclining, like various lines terminating in a centre, or like pendulums vibrating in different direction* over one central point ; and as they... | |
 | Robert Blakey - Cognitive science - 1848 - 584 pages
...Malone. " Every species," he remarks, " of the animal as well as the vegetable creation, may be said to have a fixed or determinate form, towards which...inclining, like various lines terminating in the centre ; and, as these lines all cross the centre, though only one passes through any other point, so it will... | |
 | Hugh Miller - Science - 1849 - 344 pages
...ideas. " Every species of the animal, as well as of the vegetable creation," he remarks, " may be said to have a fixed or determinate form, towards which...continually inclining, like various lines terminating in a centre ; or it may be compared to pendulums vibrating in different directions over one central point,... | |
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Every species of the animal as well as the vegetable creation may be said to have a fixed or determinate form, towards which nature is continually inclining... 
