 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1834 - 478 pages
...superiority or dignity of our own nature, nor from an incapacity of admiring the adaptation of parts. Itis the effect of habit. The human hand is so beautifully...has so fine a sensibility, that sensibility governs ils notions so correctly, every effort of the will is an* Professor Rennie, who has quarrelled with... | |
 | 1834 - 494 pages
...dignity of our own nature, nor from an incapacity of admiring the adaptation of parts. Itis the efl'ect of habit. The human hand is so beautifully formed,...so fine a sensibility, that sensibility governs its notions so correctly, every effort of the will is an* Professor Rennie, who has quarrelled with his... | |
 | 1836 - 566 pages
...his insensibility to the Giver of these secret endowments worse than ingratitude? In a i. iiinn.il creature, ignorance of his condition becomes a species...answered so instantly, as if the hand itself were the seal of that will ; its actions are so powerful, so free, and yet so delicate, that it seems to possess... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 488 pages
...Comparative Anatomy, p. 155. • P. 264. f P. 259. e P. 277. 286. h The human hand is so beautifully formed, every effort of the will is answered so instantly, as if the hand itself were the seat of that will, that the very perfection of the instrument makes us insensible to its use ; we use it as some reptiles,... | |
 | 1838 - 544 pages
...natural and perfectly adjusted to its ollice, — by the elephant's trunk than by tiie human hand. Tins does not arise from an unwillingness to contemplate...that sensibility governs its motions so correctly, Oi'ery effort of the will is answered so instantly, as if the hand itself were the scat of that will.... | |
 | 632 pages
...uncommon and monstrous than by what is natural an* perfectlj adjusted to its office— by the elephant'* trunk, than by the human hand. This does not arise...effort of the will is answered so instantly, as if the handitseU were the seat of that will, its actions are so powerful, sa free, and yet so delicate, that... | |
 | J. Rimell Dunbar - 1859 - 138 pages
...the ball of her foot. POSITION OF HANDS. The human hand, as has been observed by Sir Charles Bell, " is so beautifully formed, it has so fine a sensibility,...actions are so powerful, so free, and yet so delicate." And this power of the hand, when properly exerted in the management of a horse, meets with such an... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1869 - 998 pages
...that in which the king struck the first blow in March last." — HW, in the Athenaeum. Our Hands. — The human hand is so beautifully formed, it has so...itself were the seat of that will ; its actions are so free, so powerful, and yet so delicate, that it seems to possess a quality instinct in itself, and... | |
 | 1871 - 784 pages
...says, and the truth we commend to the earnest attention of all whom it may concern. OCR HANDS. — The human hand is so beautifully formed, it has so...instantly, as if the hand itself were the seat of the will, its actions are so free, so powerful, and yet so delicate, that it seems to possess a quality... | |
 | 1873 - 350 pages
...of life. THE HUMAN HAND. THE human hand is beautifully formed ; it has so fine a sensibility, tbat sensibility governs its motions so correctly, every...hand itself were the seat of that will . its actions arc so free, powerful, and yet so delicate, that it seems to possess a quality of instinct in itself,... | |
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The human hand is so beautifully formed, it has so fine a sensibility, that sensibility governs its motions so correctly, every effort of the will is answered so instantly, as if the hand itself were the seat of that will ; its actions are so powerful,... 
