 | John Cargill Brough - 1859 - 432 Seiten
...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." The Cyclops had each a single eye stuck in the... | |
 | 1860 - 1028 Seiten
...natural agents used as more instruments for accomplishing a given end, a* forces upon un a conviction of premeditated design more strongly, perhaps, than any...contrivance to be found, whether in art or nature, and renders it« study an object of the deepent interest." — Sir J. Hersrlitl. '* The author is well... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1854 - 470 Seiten
...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 reader its study an object of the deepest nterest. 476. Writers on comparative anatomy express the... | |
 | 1857 - 782 Seiten
...formation of the eye so similar, and yet so infinitely superior, to a product of ingenuity — such thought, such care, such refinement, such advantage...render its study an object of the deepest interest.' If the examination of any portion of the corporeal frame of man or animal, either in connection with... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1850 - 572 Seiten
...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 Herschel remarks, ' to force upon us a conviction of deliberate choice and... | |
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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... 
