Word: finer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Lecture. Introduction to the Finer Anatomy of the Nervous System: the Neuron. Dr. G. H. Parker. Zoological Lecture-room, top floor, University Museum...
Lectures on the Finer Anatomy of the Nervous System.Five afternoon lectures on the Finer Anatomy of the Central Nervous System in Mammals will be given by Dr. G. H. Parker during...
...time, been required to do no tank work. Formerly the old men have gone into the tank to do the same work as those who were inexperienced, that is, to start from the beginning and to learn the stroke. This of course necessitates a disregard of many of the finer points of the stroke, that eventually have to be re-learned. The last year's men are, however, required to do the same amount of running and exercising as those of less experience...
...Catholic countries men go for a time into retreat from the importunate dissonances of life to collect their better selves again by communion with things that are heavenly, and therefore eternal, so this Chartreuse of Wordsworth, dedicated to the Genius of Solitude, will allure to its imperturbable calm the finer natures and the more highly tempered intellects of every generation, so long as a man has any intuition of what is most sacred in his own emotions and sympathies, or of whatever in outward nature is most capable of awakening them and making them operative, whether to console or strengthen...
...sometimes impresses our fancy with the image of a schoolmaster whose class-room commands an unrivalled prospect of cloud and mountain, of all the pomp and prodigality of heaven and earth. From time to time he calls his pupils to the window, and makes them see what, without the finer intuition of his eyes, they had never seen; makes them feel what, without the sympathy of his more penetrating sentiment, they had never felt. It seems the revelation of a new heaven and new earth, and to contain in itself its own justification. Then suddenly recollecting his duty, he shuts...