On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Notes, Commentaries, and Illustrations |
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... Pythagoras , and Plato conceived it to be impossible that bodies so large as the planets , and revolving in orbits so vast , should move without some audible repercussions ; so that the heavens might be said to produce a concert , to ...
... Pythagoras , and Plato conceived it to be impossible that bodies so large as the planets , and revolving in orbits so vast , should move without some audible repercussions ; so that the heavens might be said to produce a concert , to ...
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... Pythagoras went farther , and believed it to have not only mountains , valleys , woods , rivers , and seas , but animals fifteen times larger than ours ; plants of rarer beauty ; and men superior , not only in size , but in energy and ...
... Pythagoras went farther , and believed it to have not only mountains , valleys , woods , rivers , and seas , but animals fifteen times larger than ours ; plants of rarer beauty ; and men superior , not only in size , but in energy and ...
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... Pythagoras , Galen , and , above all , Hal- ler , supposed it to be seated in the brain itself . Let the mansion of the mind , however , be where it will , the mind itself eludes research . The history of the mental philosophy of an age ...
... Pythagoras , Galen , and , above all , Hal- ler , supposed it to be seated in the brain itself . Let the mansion of the mind , however , be where it will , the mind itself eludes research . The history of the mental philosophy of an age ...
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