An essay on the philosophy, study, and use of natural historyWhite, Cochrane, and Company, 1813 - 236 pages |
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Page v
... important Objects of this Study . A milder and more noble View of the Subject . Of the Elements 17 CHAP . III . The Animal Kingdom capable of exciting the most In- terest . On the Nature of Animals . Objections to Buffon's System . A ...
... important Objects of this Study . A milder and more noble View of the Subject . Of the Elements 17 CHAP . III . The Animal Kingdom capable of exciting the most In- terest . On the Nature of Animals . Objections to Buffon's System . A ...
Page vi
... important Reflexions , arising from a Considera- tion of the Nature of Animals . On the State of Man . His Free Agency . Predestination . The Doctrines of Chance . Atheism ... 88 CHAP . VI . On the Extent of Man's Dominion over animated ...
... important Reflexions , arising from a Considera- tion of the Nature of Animals . On the State of Man . His Free Agency . Predestination . The Doctrines of Chance . Atheism ... 88 CHAP . VI . On the Extent of Man's Dominion over animated ...
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... Importance · · ..... 147 174 CHAP . X. A few Remarks on the Abstract Principle of Pleasure and Pain , as it Affects or Governs some Part of the Animal World CHAP . XI . Of the Change of Matter that is continually taking place throughout ...
... Importance · · ..... 147 174 CHAP . X. A few Remarks on the Abstract Principle of Pleasure and Pain , as it Affects or Governs some Part of the Animal World CHAP . XI . Of the Change of Matter that is continually taking place throughout ...
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... importance of the study on which it treats , and who is ardently desirous of seeing it more generally cultivated . Re- ceive it , then , as an humble attempt to illus- trate some new and grand views of the operations of Nature , and of ...
... importance of the study on which it treats , and who is ardently desirous of seeing it more generally cultivated . Re- ceive it , then , as an humble attempt to illus- trate some new and grand views of the operations of Nature , and of ...
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... important truths in Natural Philosophy , and to develope many of those secret and mys- terious laws by which some ... importance to be entirely thrown aside , I resolved xvi PREFACE .
... important truths in Natural Philosophy , and to develope many of those secret and mys- terious laws by which some ... importance to be entirely thrown aside , I resolved xvi PREFACE .
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