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... soon becomes exhausted and dies : the food given to ani- mals in experiments of this nature , has been found , on opening the stomach after death , to be undigested . When the animal is fed , and its eighth pair of nerves divided ...
... soon becomes exhausted and dies : the food given to ani- mals in experiments of this nature , has been found , on opening the stomach after death , to be undigested . When the animal is fed , and its eighth pair of nerves divided ...
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... soon in- duces the unconsciousness called sleep . The brain has connexion with all parts of the body , by the instrumentality of nerves , and if this communi- cation be stopped , by the separation of a nerve with a lancet , the bodily ...
... soon in- duces the unconsciousness called sleep . The brain has connexion with all parts of the body , by the instrumentality of nerves , and if this communi- cation be stopped , by the separation of a nerve with a lancet , the bodily ...
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... soon are made to perceive , by touch and the muscular sense , in what the sound originated , and consequently which way it comes . The blind often arrive at an extraordinary degree of acuteness in judging of the nearness , distance ...
... soon are made to perceive , by touch and the muscular sense , in what the sound originated , and consequently which way it comes . The blind often arrive at an extraordinary degree of acuteness in judging of the nearness , distance ...
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... soon the motive feeling of the stomach in- stigates it to suck the mamme of its mother , or ought that is placed near its mouth . Other senses are then brought into use , and as the infant advances it may be ob- served experimenting on ...
... soon the motive feeling of the stomach in- stigates it to suck the mamme of its mother , or ought that is placed near its mouth . Other senses are then brought into use , and as the infant advances it may be ob- served experimenting on ...
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... soon removed by the others . A piece of salt may appear so similar to a snow - ball , to the eye of an inattentive or inexpe- rienced person , that he may be deceived with respect to it ; but , on referring to touch , the question is at ...
... soon removed by the others . A piece of salt may appear so similar to a snow - ball , to the eye of an inattentive or inexpe- rienced person , that he may be deceived with respect to it ; but , on referring to touch , the question is at ...
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Page 206 - Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.
Page 197 - No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close ; As the sun-flower turns on her god, when he sets, The same look which she turned when he rose.
Page 118 - If it be for thy glory, I beseech thee give me some sign from heaven ; if not, I shall suppress it.
Page 99 - Like the darkened moon he retired, in the midst of the whistling blast.
Page 167 - Europe, have given up all accounts of witches and apparitions, as mere old wives' fables. I am sorry for it : and I willingly take this opportunity of entering my solemn protest against this violent compliment, which so many that believe the Bible pay to those who do not believe it.
Page 67 - Is ever wi' my Jean. I see her in the dewy flowers, I see her sweet and fair : I hear her in the tunefu...
Page 118 - Veritate, in my hand, and, kneeling on my knees, devoutly said these words, 0 thou eternal God, Author of the light which now shines upon me, and Giver of all inward illuminations, I do beseech thee, of thy infinite goodness, to pardon a greater request than a sinner ought to make; I am not satisfied enough whether I shall publish this book, De Veritate...
Page 94 - Is this a dagger, which I see before me, The handle toward my hand ? Come, let me clutch thee: I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling, as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind; a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain ? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw. Thou marshal'st me the way that I was going; And such an instrument I was to use. Mine eyes are made the fools o...
Page 206 - Though the qualities that affect our senses are, in the things themselves, so united and blended, that there is no separation, no distance between them; yet it is plain the ideas they produce in the mind enter by the senses simple and unmixed...
Page 94 - Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses, Or else worth all the rest ; I see thee still, And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before.