The Inverted Scheme of Copernicus: With the Pretended Experiments Upon which His Followers Have Founded Their Hypotheses of Matter and Motion ... Contrasted with the Formation of One World by Divine Power, as it is Revealed in the History of Creation ... to which is Prefixed a Letter to Sir Humphry Davy ...J. Lang, 1822 - 216 sidor |
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... believe truly , " more is meant than meets the ear . " La Place has , however , done little more than spun and woven into a plausible mathe- matical dress the reveries of Spinoza and Toland , who had preceded him in the same cause ...
... believe truly , " more is meant than meets the ear . " La Place has , however , done little more than spun and woven into a plausible mathe- matical dress the reveries of Spinoza and Toland , who had preceded him in the same cause ...
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... believe , that these learned men are not delibe- rately playing off experiments on human cre- dulity ; or that they have not a secret design to bring real science into contempt . However this may be ; by their constant promulgations of ...
... believe , that these learned men are not delibe- rately playing off experiments on human cre- dulity ; or that they have not a secret design to bring real science into contempt . However this may be ; by their constant promulgations of ...
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... believe , that the time of these lying wonders , as he terms them , is arrived ? You , Sir , have had an extensive intercourse with learned men , and you must therefore be well acquainted with their sentiments , by conversing with them ...
... believe , that the time of these lying wonders , as he terms them , is arrived ? You , Sir , have had an extensive intercourse with learned men , and you must therefore be well acquainted with their sentiments , by conversing with them ...
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... believe , the only one ever pro- mulgated , in which the aid of the senses has been contemned and proscribed ; for no other reason than because they constantly bear wit- ness against it . But as , in the progress of this delusion ...
... believe , the only one ever pro- mulgated , in which the aid of the senses has been contemned and proscribed ; for no other reason than because they constantly bear wit- ness against it . But as , in the progress of this delusion ...
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... believe , created and sustains all things ? Whether princes , governors , magistrates and people , are to look for safety and protection to the self - moving atoms of Epicurus ; the ætherial fire of Toland ; the moving and ani- mating ...
... believe , created and sustains all things ? Whether princes , governors , magistrates and people , are to look for safety and protection to the self - moving atoms of Epicurus ; the ætherial fire of Toland ; the moving and ani- mating ...
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Sida 38 - ... these primitive particles being solids are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces, no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation.
Sida 93 - And I will establish my covenant with you ; neither shall all flesh be cut off" any more by the waters of a flood ; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Sida 2 - The secret things belong unto the LORD our God : but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Sida 16 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Sida 38 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...
Sida 38 - ... even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces ; no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one, in the first creation. While the particles continue entire, they may compose bodies of one and the same nature and texture in all ages ; but should they wear away or break in pieces, the nature of things depending on them would be changed.
Sida 119 - And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
Sida 76 - Or who shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? When I made the cloud the garment thereof, And thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, And brake up for it my decreed place, And set bars and doors, And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: And here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Sida 155 - For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet...