When there are but two opposite leaves, and these become united by their margins, we have a state of things precisely resembling that to which the term connate is applied Fusion of the edges of the cotyledons also occasionally takes place, as in Ebenus cretica_.— Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
And when we bear in mind that dancing, poetry, and music are connate--are originally constituent parts of the same thing, it becomes clear that the measured movement common to them all implies a rhythmical action of the whole system, the vocal apparatus included; and that so the rhythm of music is a more subtle and complex result of this relation between mental and muscular excitement But it is time to end this analysis, which possibly we have already carried too far.— Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library
The others, all primary, are connate -- _viz. _, radical frame of mind and body -- or adventitious.— The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics
When there are but two opposite leaves, and these become united by their margins, we have a state of things precisely resembling that to which the term connate is applied.— Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
And when we bear in mind that dancing, poetry, and music are connate -- are originally constituent parts of the same thing, it becomes clear that the measured movement common to them all implies a rhythmical action of the whole system, the vocal apparatus included; and that so the rhythm of music is a more subtle and complex result of this relation between mental and muscular excitement.— Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library
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