Hooker's New Physiology

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Sheldon, 1874 - 376 sider
 

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Side 301 - ... in an oblique direction, till it arrived at the point where it wished to place it. The long and large materials were always taken first, and two of the longest were generally laid crosswise, with one of the ends of each touching the wall, and the...
Side 302 - This pause was sometimes followed by changing the position of the material judged ; and sometimes it was left in its place. After he had piled up his materials in one part of the room, (for he generally chose the same place,) he proceeded to wall up the space between the feet of a chest of drawers which stood at a little distance from it, high enough on its legs to make the bottom a roof for him ; using for this purpose dried turf and sticks, which he laid very even, and filling up the interstices...
Side x - Learn to make a right use of your eyes : the commonest things are worth looking at — even stones and weeds, and the most familiar animals.
Side 74 - There is no other source of knowledge, but a sense of the degree of exertion in his muscular frame, by which a man can know the position of his body and limbs, while he has no point of vision to direct his efforts, or the contact of any external body. In truth, we stand by so fine an exercise of this power, and the muscles are, from habit, directed with so much precision and with an effort so slight, that we do not know how we stand.
Side 218 - The same can be said of n y except that in pronouncing it we press the tip of the tongue against the roof of the mouth just behind the front teeth...
Side 302 - The long and large materials were always taken first, and two of the longest were generally laid crosswise, with one of the ends of each touching the wall, and the other ends projecting out into the room. The...
Side 330 - Society, from seeds taken from the stomach of a man, whose skeleton was found 30 feet below the surface of the earth, at the bottom of a barrow which was opened near Dorchester. He had been buried with some coins of the Emperor Hadrian, and it is probable, therefore, that the seeds were sixteen or seventeen hundred years old.
Side 315 - That external or adventitious causes, such as climate, situation, food, way of life, have considerable effect in altering the constitution of man and animals ; but that this effect, as well as that of art or accident, is confined to the individual, not being transmitted by generation, and therefore...

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