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... bodies ; until Copernicus revived the Pythagorean system , which proved the errors of the then prevailing doctrine ; yet so great was his fear of punishment in consequence of the super- stition of his time , that he suffered his ...
... bodies ; until Copernicus revived the Pythagorean system , which proved the errors of the then prevailing doctrine ; yet so great was his fear of punishment in consequence of the super- stition of his time , that he suffered his ...
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... Bodies incline towards the Earth , and Lighter Ones move from it ? 5. What occasions the Tides ? are such weighty questions , that require such answers that the most simple scholar may comprehend them agreeably to the ways of nature ...
... Bodies incline towards the Earth , and Lighter Ones move from it ? 5. What occasions the Tides ? are such weighty questions , that require such answers that the most simple scholar may comprehend them agreeably to the ways of nature ...
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... bodies , impelled by a single " force , move by their own nature uniformly along " the right lines in which the forces that impel them " are directed without any possibility of deviating " from those rectilinear paths ; it follows that ...
... bodies , impelled by a single " force , move by their own nature uniformly along " the right lines in which the forces that impel them " are directed without any possibility of deviating " from those rectilinear paths ; it follows that ...
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... bodies as the planets are , could not maintain the positions which they are known to do , without support . The second question has been more ably handled by Sir Isaac Newton , Boerhaave , and other philo- sophers , yet as they are not ...
... bodies as the planets are , could not maintain the positions which they are known to do , without support . The second question has been more ably handled by Sir Isaac Newton , Boerhaave , and other philo- sophers , yet as they are not ...
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... bodies are not sufficiently grounded on decisive facts to admit of a cursory discussion .-- The late Dr. Black of " Edinburgh , Professor Wilcke of Stockholm , Dr. " Irwin of Glasgow , and Dr. Crawford of London , " are among the ...
... bodies are not sufficiently grounded on decisive facts to admit of a cursory discussion .-- The late Dr. Black of " Edinburgh , Professor Wilcke of Stockholm , Dr. " Irwin of Glasgow , and Dr. Crawford of London , " are among the ...
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Sida 147 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Sida 142 - The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee : but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
Sida 146 - And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand.
Sida 108 - The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
Sida 141 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God mad* the earth and the heavens.
Sida 149 - For the Lord shall comfort Zion; he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Sida 156 - And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: 24 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land?
Sida 156 - So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses "which the LORD hath laid upon it ; 23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt...
Sida 149 - Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, And instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: And it shall be to the Lord for a name, For an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Sida 119 - I discern any heaps of ruins, nor any smoke ascending above the surface of the water, as is usually described in the writings and maps of geographers. But yet I must not omit what was confidently attested to me by the father guardian and procurator of Jerusalem, both men in years, and seemingly not destitute either of sense or probity ; viz.