 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 378 pages
...determinate form towards which nature is continually inclining, like various lines terminating in the centfe; or it may be compared to pendulums vibrating in different...directions over one central point, and as they all cross the centre, though only one passes 2 A 3 through any other point, so it will be found that perfect... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 856 pages
...as to a centre nature is continually inclining. Or it may I Hh be [ 242 ] L О V » Sketches qf Man. be compared to pendulums vibrating in different directions over one central point ; and as they all cross the centre, though only one passes through any other point ; so it vf ill be found that perfect... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1824 - 324 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...directions over one central point: and as they all cross the centre, though VOL. II. N only one passes through any other point, so it will be found, that... | |
 | Sir Charles Bell - Anatomy, Artistic - 1824 - 266 pages
...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 cross the centre, though only one passes through any other point, so it will be found that perfect... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 702 pages
...general form of nature. Every species of the anihlal as well as the vegetable creation may be said to have a fixed Or determinate form towards which...directions over one central point, and as they all cross the centre, though only one passes through any other point, so it will be found that perfect... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 488 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...directions over one central point; and as they all cross the centre, though only one passes through any other point, so it will be found that perfect... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 482 pages
...as the vegetable creation, may be said to have a fixed or determinate form towards which nature Ls continually inclining, like various lines terminating...directions over one central point ; and as they all cross the centre, though only one passes through any other point, so it will be found that perfect... | |
 | David Drummond - Phrenology - 1829 - 230 pages
...towards which nature is con• i mu.i II v inclining, like various lines terminating in the center; or it may be " compared to pendulums vibrating in different directions over one central subject. His paper inserted in " The Idler," I conceive, completely settles the question. The following... | |
 | Great Britain - 1829 - 492 pages
...towards which nature is continually inclining, like various lines terminating in a centra, or like pendulums vibrating in different directions over one central point ; and as they all cro*s the centre, though only one passes through any other point,— so it will be found, that perfect... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1835 - 514 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...directions over one central point : and as they all cross the centre, though only one passes through any other point, so it will be found that perfect... | |
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... the centre ; or it may be compared to pendulums vibrating in different directions over one central point ; and as they all cross the centre, though only one passes through any other point... 
