 | Books - 1821 - 398 pages
...imperceptible — from the interruption of interposing bodies ; as the internal parts of animals : and, because the object is unfit to make an impression upon the sense : as the air or the invisible and untangible spirit which is included in every living body." For each... | |
 | 1821 - 402 pages
...may, perhaps, not be deemed undeserving peculiar consideration. He says, "Things escape the senses, because the object is unfit to make an impression upon the sense; as the air or the invisible and untangible spirit which is included in every living body." The same... | |
 | Books - 1821 - 400 pages
...may, perhaps, not be deemed undeserving peculiar consideration. He says, "Things escape the senses, because the object is unfit to make an impression upon the sense; as the air or the invisible and untangible spirit which is included in every living body." The same... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 402 pages
...imperceptible — from the interruption of interposing bodies ; as the internal parts of animals : and, because the object is unfit to make an impression upon the sense : as the air or the invisible and untangible spirit which is included in every living body." For each... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1860 - 724 pages
...spirit, as he calls it, which he conceives to be contained even in bodies commonly considered to be dead. Things escape the senses, either, 1, through the distance...interception of interposing bodies; 3, because the object is unlit to make an impression upon t'ne sense; 4, because the object is not sufficient, in quantity,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 728 pages
...spirit, as he calls it, which he conceives to be contained even in bodies commonly considered to be dead. Things escape the senses, either, 1, through the distance...interposing bodies; 3, because the object is unfit to make ati impression upon the sense; 4, because the object is not sufficient, in quantity, to strike the... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - Logic - 1874 - 984 pages
...imperceptible ; from the interruption of interposing bodies : as the internal parts of animals ; and because the object is unfit to make an impression upon the sense : as the air or the invisible and untangible spirit which is included in every living body.' Complexity... | |
 | James Thompson Bixby - Religion and science - 1889 - 260 pages
...room imperceptible; from the interruption of opposing bodies, as the internal parts of animals ; and because the object is unfit to make an impression upon the sense, as the air, or the invisible or untangible spirit which' is included in every living body." Moreover,... | |
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... celestial bodies and the size and nature of all distant bodies — from prepossession by another object; as one powerful smell renders other smells in the same room imperceptible — from the interruption of interposing bodies ; as the internal parts... 