Conversations on the Animal Economy: Designed for the Instruction of Youth and the Perusal of General ReadersShirley and Hyde, 1829 - 242 páginas |
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action alimentary canal animal economy appearance arteries auricle B.-This bile birds blood body bones brain bronchiae called carbonic acid cartilage cavity changes chest chyle chyme circulation coat colour common composed considered contraction cornea curious degree digestion distinct effects Emily Emily.-But Emily.-I Emily.-What existence experiments external extremities fact fibres fishes fluid functions gastric juice glands glottis heart heat hepatic artery inferior animals intestinal canal jaws lacteals larynx limb living lungs matter membrane mind minute motion mouth mucous muscles muscular nature nerves nervous power nourishment nutrition object observed peculiar perfect perfectly pharynx PHRENOLOGY physiologists portion possess produced properties purpose pyloric orifice quantity rays respiration respiratory organs secreted seems sensation sense side sleep sounds spinal marrow spine stomach structure substance suppose surface swallow teeth thoracic duct tion trunk vegetable veins venous ventricle ventriloquism vessels vital voice whole wind-pipe Zoophytes
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Página 2 - Wilkins, of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors in the words following, to wit '• — " Alff%t90V t ЛЛ-ГЛ KrljnßufyT fflfflv, (ГО A\t%¿Vc In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States...
Página 164 - When he first saw, he was so far from making any judgement about distances, that he thought all objects whatever touched his eyes, (as he expressed it) as what he felt did his skin...
Página 165 - ... the room he was in, he said, he knew to be but part of the house, yet he could not conceive that the whole house could look bigger.
Página 165 - One particular only, though it may appear trifling, I will relate. Having often forgot which was the cat and which the dog, he was ashamed to ask, but catching the cat, which he knew by feeling, he was observed to look at her steadfastly, and then setting her down said, so puss, I shall know you another time.
Página 186 - The pale purple even Melts around thy flight ; Like a star of heaven, In the broad daylight, Thou art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight.
Página 164 - ... guess what it was in any object that was pleasing to him. He knew not the shape of anything, nor any one thing from another, however different in shape or magnitude : but upon being told what things were, whose form he before knew from feeling, he would carefully observe, that he might know them again...
Página 50 - Hunter's pithy remark is quoted, "some physiologists will have it, that the stomach is a mill, others, that it is a fermenting vat, others, again, that it is a stew-pan; but, in my view of the matter, it is neither a mill, a fermenting vat nor a stew-pan ; but a stomach, gentlemen, a stomach.
Página 230 - fore the king, The throne he sits on; nor the tide of pomp That beats upon the high shore of this world: No, not all these, thrice-gorgeous ceremony, Not all these, laid in bed majestical, Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave, Who with a body filled and vacant mind Gets him to rest, crammed with distressful bread...
Página 165 - ... paint ; but even then he was no less surprised, expecting the pictures would feel like the things they represented, and was amazed when he found those parts, which by their light and shadow appeared now round and uneven, felt only flat like the rest ; and asked which was the lying sense, feeling, or seeing...
Página 194 - A young bird commonly continues to record for ten or eleven months, when he is able to execute every part of his song, which afterwards continues fixed, and is scarcely ever altered. When the bird is thus become perfect in his lesson, he is said to sing his song round, or in all its varieties of passages, which he connects together, and executes without a pause.