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... concerning the Aurora Borealis , must give way to the more important matter , which it is presumed will more than compensate for it . The readers of this book who are persuaded of the existence of a medium in space , are requested to ...
... concerning the Aurora Borealis , must give way to the more important matter , which it is presumed will more than compensate for it . The readers of this book who are persuaded of the existence of a medium in space , are requested to ...
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... concerning how we are to estimate our proximity or distance from the Sun , according to its elevation . It cannot be denied that as I approached the Mont it became the more elevated to me on that account ; and I verily believe that we ...
... concerning how we are to estimate our proximity or distance from the Sun , according to its elevation . It cannot be denied that as I approached the Mont it became the more elevated to me on that account ; and I verily believe that we ...
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... concerning the absolute plenitude of space . 65 According to the Aristotelians , all space was full " without any the least vacuities whatever . Des * Cartes embraced the same opinion , and therefore supposed a subtile fluid matter ...
... concerning the absolute plenitude of space . 65 According to the Aristotelians , all space was full " without any the least vacuities whatever . Des * Cartes embraced the same opinion , and therefore supposed a subtile fluid matter ...
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... being collectively applied to the general question concerning the absolute pleni- tude of space by Sir Isaac Newton , who states these experiments against the Aristotelian and Cartenion opinions , do not 32 New System , & c .
... being collectively applied to the general question concerning the absolute pleni- tude of space by Sir Isaac Newton , who states these experiments against the Aristotelian and Cartenion opinions , do not 32 New System , & c .
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... Concerning the doctrine of cause and effect , many opinions have been hazarded by different " writers , all of which tend finally to nearly the " same results ; that every event is , and must be " brought about by some cause , is held ...
... Concerning the doctrine of cause and effect , many opinions have been hazarded by different " writers , all of which tend finally to nearly the " same results ; that every event is , and must be " brought about by some cause , is held ...
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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.