I am sorry the infernal Divinities, who visit mankind with diseases, and are therefore at perpetual war with Doctors, should have prevented my seeing all you great Men at Soho to-day-Lord! what inventions, what wit, what rhetoric, metaphysical, mechanical and pyrotecnical, will be on the wing, bandy'd like a shuttlecock from one to another of your troop of philosophers! while poor I, I by myself I, imprizon'd in a post chaise, am joggled, and jostled, and bump'd, and bruised along the King's high road, to make war upon a pox or a fever!
In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why so much the worse for the facts is my feeling. - Erasmus Darwin
In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why so much the worse for the facts is my feeling.
- Erasmus Darwin
So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass From… - Erasmus Darwin
So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass From…
Another thing very injurious to the child is the tying and cutting of the navel string too soon, which should always be left till the child has not o… - Erasmus Darwin
Another thing very injurious to the child is the tying and cutting of the navel string too soon, which should always be left till the child has not o…
Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and rais’d in Ocean’s pearly caves First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move on the mud, or… - Erasmus Darwin
Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and rais’d in Ocean’s pearly caves First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move on the mud, or…
To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense. - Erasmus Darwin
To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense.
Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem to be one great slau… - Erasmus Darwin
Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem to be one great slau…
The great CREATOR of all things has infinitely diversified the works of his hands, but has at the same time stamped a certain similitude on the featu… - Erasmus Darwin
The great CREATOR of all things has infinitely diversified the works of his hands, but has at the same time stamped a certain similitude on the featu…
We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay, coal, marl, sand, and… - Erasmus Darwin
We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay, coal, marl, sand, and…
Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die. - Erasmus Darwin
Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die.
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