 | Denison Olmsted, Ebenezer Strong Snell - 1845 - 612 pages
...formation of the eye so similar, and yet so infinitely superior, to a product of human ingenuity,— such thought, such care, such refinement, such advantage...agents used as mere instruments for accomplishing a * Brewster. given end, as force upon us a conviction of deliberate choice and premeditated design,... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1846 - 454 pages
...formation of the eye so similar, and yet so infinitely superior, to a product of human ingenuity, — such thought, such care, such refinement, such advantage...render its study an object of the deepest interest, 528. Writers on comparative anatomy express the highest admiration of the adaptation of the eyes of... | |
 | Robert Hunt - 1849 - 538 pages
...formation of the eye so similar, and yet so infinitely superior to a product of human ingenuity ; such thought, such care, such refinement, such advantage...contrivance to be found whether in art or nature, and renders its study an object of the greatest interest."(107) Analogy often is of great value in indicating... | |
 | Robert Hunt - 1850 - 408 pages
...formation of the eye ^similar, and yet so infinitely superior to a product of human ingenuity ; such thought, such care, such refinement, such advantage taken of the properties of natural agents \isecl as mere instruments, ibr accomplishing a given end, as force upon us a conviction of deliberate... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1851 - 492 pages
...regard to objects at different distances? What is said of the perfection of structure in the eye ? such care, such refinement, such advantage taken of...nature, and render its study an object of the deepest nterest 476. Writers on comparative anatomy express the highest admiration of the adaptation of the... | |
 | James McCosh - 1851 - 526 pages
...adaptation adjusted so as to produce another. When we point, for instance, to the eye, as showing such thought, such care, such refinement, such advantage taken of the properties of natural agents, " and fitted," as Sir John Herschell remarks, " to force upon us a conviction of deliberate choice... | |
 | James McCosh - 1851 - 540 pages
...adjusted so as to produce another. When we point, for instance, to the eye, as showing such thought, each care, such refinement, such advantage taken of the properties of natural agents. " and fitted," as Sir John Herschell remarks, " to force upon us a conviction of deliberate choice... | |
 | Robert Hunt - 1854 - 448 pages
...formation of the eye, so similar, and yet so infinitely superior to a product of human ingenuity ; such thought, such care, such refinement, such advantage...as force upon us a .conviction of deliberate choice arid premeditated design, more strongly, perhaps, than any single contrivance to be found whether in... | |
 | 1857 - 782 pages
...so similar, and yet so infinitely superior, to a product of ingenuity — such thought, such carp, such refinement, such advantage taken of the properties...render its study an object of the deepest interest.' If the examination of any portion of thecorporeal frame of man oranimal, either in connection with... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1858 - 468 pages
...so similar, and yet so infinitely superior, to a product of human ingenuity, — such thought, each care, such refinement, such advantage taken of the...nature, and render its study an object of the deepest nterest. 476. Writers on comparative anatomy express the highest admiration of the adaptation of the... | |
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... concealed from its scrutiny ; for, however anatomists may differ on points of structure, or physiologists dispute on modes of action, there is that in what we do understand of the formation of the eye so similar, and yet so infinitely superior, to... 
