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In the former, the productive energy exhausts itself, and as it were, sleeps in the product or 'organismus' -- in its root, stem, foliage, blossoms, seed.
Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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The Satyrs represent the sports and appetences of the sensuous nature ([Greek: phronaema sarkos]) -- Pan, or the total life of the earth, the presence of all in each, the universal 'organismus' of bodies and bodily energy.] [Footnote 3: Written in Bp. Blomfield's edition, and communicated by Mr. Cary.
Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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'constitutive,' that is, appertaining to the chain ( 'ad catenam auream') of truths interdependent and rendered mutually intelligible, which constitute the system of the Christian religion, including not alone the faith and morals of individuals, but the 'organismus' likewise of the
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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A portion of the fat as well as wax is formed in the animal organismus, as shown by a number of observations, and in most cases it is unquestionable that the non-nitrogenous nutriments, as starch, serve for the formation of fat by
The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants George William Septimus Piesse 1851
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On the other hand, idea is so far co-essential with 'nomos', that by its co-existence -- (not confluence) -- with the 'nomos' [Greek: hen nomizomenois] (with the 'organismus' and its faculties and functions in the man,) it becomes itself a 'nomos'.
Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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