The extremely small seeds of fern, mosses, mushrooms, and some other plants are concealed and wafted about in the air, every part whereof seems replete with seeds of one kind or other. The whole atmosphere seems alive. There is everywhere acid to corrode,... Letters Concerning Mythology - Sida 145efter Thomas Blackwell - 1748 - 408 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| Richard Lovett - 1766 - 610 sidor
...beftowing forms without inter* miffion. ' 140. 36. ' The feeds of things feem to lye latent * in the air, ready to appear and produce their * kind, whenever they light on a proper ma« trix. The extremely fmall feeds of fern, * mofles, mumrooms, and fome other Plants, * are concealed,... | |
| 1818 - 426 sidor
...Berkeley, " fire is kindled, the lamp of life preserved. The seeds of things seem to lie latent in the air, ready to appear and produce their kind whenever they light on a proper matrix. The whole atmosphere seems alive, and to be a common seminary and receptacle of all vivifying principles. .¿Ether,... | |
| 1818 - 444 sidor
...Berkeley, " fire is kindled, the lamp of life preserved. The seeds of things seem to lie latent in the air, ready to appear and produce their kind whenever they light on a proper inaiiix. The whole atmosphere seems alive, and to be a common seminary and receptacle of all vivifying... | |
| George Berkeley - 1820 - 496 sidor
...destroying and bestowing forms without intermision. 141. The seeds of things seem to lie latent in the air, ready to appear and produce their kind, whenever they light on a proper matrix. The extremely small seeds of fern, mosses, mushrooms, and some other plants, are concealed and wafted about... | |
| George Berkeley - 1820 - 496 sidor
...destroying and bestowing forms without intermision. 141. The seeds of things seem to lie latent in the air, ready to appear and produce their kind, whenever they light on a proper matrix. The extremely small seeds of fern, mosses, mushrooms, and some other plants, are concealed and wafted about... | |
| George Berkeley - 1843 - 470 sidor
...destroying and bestowing forms without intermission. 141. The seeds of things seem to lie latent in the air, ready to appear and produce their kind, whenever they light on a proper matrix. The extremely small seeds of fern, mosses, mushrooms, and some other plants are concealed and wafted about... | |
| 1914 - 964 sidor
..."SIrls" (1774) has a good prophetic phrase: The set-ds of things seem to He latent In the pir. ro.-idy to appear and • produce their kind, whenever they light on a proper matrix. The extremely small seeds of fern, mosses, mushrooms, and some other plants, are concealed and wafted about... | |
| Mary Ann Dwight - 1849 - 516 sidor
...principles ; the general source of corruption and generation in which the seeds of all things seem to lie latent, ready to appear and produce their kind whenever they shall light on a proper matrix. The whole atmosphere seems alive, — there is everywhere acid to corrode... | |
| 1870 - 668 sidor
...in paragraph 141, he says : — " The seeds of things seem to be latent in the air, ready to pair, and produce their kind whenever they light on a proper matrix. The extremely small seeds of ferns, mosses, mushrooms, and some other plants, are concealed and wafted... | |
| Mary Ann Dwight - 1864 - 356 sidor
...principles ; the general source of corruption aud generation in which the seedi of all things seem to lie latent, ready to appear and produce their kind whenever they shall light on a proper matrix. The whole atmosphere seems alive — there is every where acid to corrode... | |
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