Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, Volums 29-30

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American Philosophical Society, 1891
 

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Pàgina 159 - My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts ; but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive.
Pàgina 51 - He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of God, the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the living and the dead, I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting, Amen.
Pàgina 132 - ... to the author of the best discovery, or most useful invention, relating to Navigation, Astronomy, or Natural Philosophy (mere natural history only excepted...
Pàgina 159 - But now for many years I cannot endure to read a line of poetry: I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
Pàgina 160 - ... Nature constitute but the multiform revelation of an Omnipresent Power that is not identifiable with Nature. And in this conclusion there is no room left for the difficulty which baffles contemporary theology. The scientific inquirer may retort upon the theologian : Once really adopt the conception of an ever-present God, without whom not a sparrow falls to the ground...
Pàgina 166 - GLUGE (GOTTLIEB). ATLAS OF PATHOLOGICAL HISTOLOGY. Translated by Joseph Leidy, MD, Professor of Anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania, Ac.
Pàgina 77 - JOHNSON.-THE FARMER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA, And Dictionary of Rural Affairs : embracing all the recent Discoveries in Agricultural Chemistry, adapted to the comprehension of unscientific readers. By CUTHBERT W.
Pàgina 265 - Your Committee therefore recommend the passage of the following resolutions : Resolved, That it is the...
Pàgina 75 - Preliminary Report of the Commission appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to investigate Modern Spiritualism in accordance with the Request of the late Henry Seybert.
Pàgina 69 - C., in common with the other physicians who had charge of hospitals, was presented by the city with a silver pitcher, in testimony of his public services. This pitcher, known in the family as

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