Natural Theology: Or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of NatureM. Thomas, sold also by Isaac Peirce, M. Carey ... Johnson & Warner, 1814 - 349 pagina's |
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Pagina 23
... birds of rapine , surprizing examples are given . The fact accordingly is , that two peculiarities are found in the eyes of birds , both tending to facilitate the change upon which the adjustment of the eye to different distances ...
... birds of rapine , surprizing examples are given . The fact accordingly is , that two peculiarities are found in the eyes of birds , both tending to facilitate the change upon which the adjustment of the eye to different distances ...
Pagina 24
... birds . The ordinary shape of the fish's eye being in a much higher degree convex than that of land animals , a corresponding difference attends its muscular conformation , viz . that it is throughout calculated for flattening the eye ...
... birds . The ordinary shape of the fish's eye being in a much higher degree convex than that of land animals , a corresponding difference attends its muscular conformation , viz . that it is throughout calculated for flattening the eye ...
Pagina 27
... birds and of many quad- rupeds . Its use is to sweep the eye , which it does in an instant ; to spread over it the lachrymal humour ; to defend it also from sudden injuries ; yet not totally , when drawn upon the pupil , to shut out the ...
... birds and of many quad- rupeds . Its use is to sweep the eye , which it does in an instant ; to spread over it the lachrymal humour ; to defend it also from sudden injuries ; yet not totally , when drawn upon the pupil , to shut out the ...
Pagina 37
... bird has the same concern in the formation of the egg which she lays , as the plant has in that of the seed which it drops ; and no other , nor greater . The inter- nal constitution of the egg is as much a secret to the hen , as if the ...
... bird has the same concern in the formation of the egg which she lays , as the plant has in that of the seed which it drops ; and no other , nor greater . The inter- nal constitution of the egg is as much a secret to the hen , as if the ...
Pagina 38
... bird ; nor ( for we may follow the gradation through its whole scale ) a bird than a plant ; nor a plant than a watch , a piece of dead mechanism , would do , upon the supposition which has already so often been repeated . Rationality ...
... bird ; nor ( for we may follow the gradation through its whole scale ) a bird than a plant ; nor a plant than a watch , a piece of dead mechanism , would do , upon the supposition which has already so often been repeated . Rationality ...
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Natural Theology, Or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity ... William Paley Volledige weergave - 1820 |
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