The Veterinarian: A Monthly Journal of Veterinary Science, Volume 321859 |
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Page 288 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 45 - gainst his glory fight, And Time that gave doth now his gift confound. Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth And delves the parallels in beauty's brow, Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth, And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow; And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand, Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand.
Page 37 - ... both consumed by a given weight of animal within a given time, and required to yield a given weight of increase. The...
Page 51 - Life," he said ; And ere I answered, passing out of sight, On his celestial embassy he sped. 'Twas at thy door, O friend ! and not at mine. The angel with the amaranthine wreath, Pausing, descended, and with voice divine, Whispered a word that had a sound like Death. Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, A shadow on those features fair and thin ; And softly, from that hushed and darkened room, Two angels issued, where but one went in.
Page 38 - ... consumed by a given weight of animal, within a given time, and the amount of increase obtained from a given weight of food. The results, which formed the subject of the present communication, afforded further illustration of some of the points brought forward...
Page 395 - Cause of all, not like certain philosophic ancients, as a uniform and quiescent mind, as an all-pervading anima mundi, but as an. active and anticipating intelligence. By applying the laws of comparative anatomy to the relics of extinct races of animals contained in and characterizing the different strata of the earth's crust, and corresponding with as many epochs in the earth's history...
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Page 394 - I may crave indulgence for a few words, of more sound, perhaps, than significance. But the reflective mind cannot evade or resist the tendency to speculate on the future course and ultimate fate of vital phenomena in this planet. There seems to have been a time when life was not ; there may, therefore, be a period when it will cease to be.
Page 394 - ... of, that it must needs mingle with our thoughts, and bias our conclusions on many things. The end of the world has been presented to man's mind under divers aspects : — as a general conflagration ; as the same, preceded by a millennial exaltation of the world to a Paradisiacal state, — the abode of a higher and blessed race of intelligences. If the guide-post of Palaeontology may seem to point to a course ascending to the condition of the latter speculation, it points but a very short way,...
Page 615 - ... with work to be performed, but by the place which he knows this object to hold in the general universe of knowledge, by the relation which it bears to other parts of that general knowledge. To arrange and classify that universe of knowledge becomes therefore the first, and perhaps the. most important, object and duty of Science. It is only when brought into a system, by separating the incongruous and combining those elements in which we have been enabled to discover the internal connexion which...