The Mathematical and Philosophical Works of the Right Rev. John Wilkins ...: To which is Prefixed the Author's Life and an Account of His Works, Volym 1C. Whittingham, 1802 |
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... dark shade wherein she was involved , that so she might bring away the souls of those saints that inhabit within her , which cry out by reason they are then deprived of their wonted hap- piness , and cannot hear the music of the spheres ...
... dark shade wherein she was involved , that so she might bring away the souls of those saints that inhabit within her , which cry out by reason they are then deprived of their wonted hap- piness , and cannot hear the music of the spheres ...
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... darkness , that they fell down . upon the earth ? as it is related in divers histories . And therefore Herodotus telling of an eclipse which fell in Xerxes's time , describes it thus : ó ý εnλTYV TYV EN TË ερανε έδρην αφανής ην § . The ...
... darkness , that they fell down . upon the earth ? as it is related in divers histories . And therefore Herodotus telling of an eclipse which fell in Xerxes's time , describes it thus : ó ý εnλTYV TYV EN TË ερανε έδρην αφανής ην § . The ...
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... dark shadow behind them , as shall be shewed afterwards + . Since then the like interposition of them both , doth produce the like effect , they must necessarily be of the like natures , that is , alike opacous , which is the thing to ...
... dark shadow behind them , as shall be shewed afterwards + . Since then the like interposition of them both , doth produce the like effect , they must necessarily be of the like natures , that is , alike opacous , which is the thing to ...
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... dark ; and the divers con- * Tostatus in 1 Gen. Hyeron . de sancta fide Hebræomast . l . 2. c . 4 . versions of those sides towards our eyes , caused the 36 THAT THE MOON MAY BE A WORLD . That the moon hath not any light of her.
... dark ; and the divers con- * Tostatus in 1 Gen. Hyeron . de sancta fide Hebræomast . l . 2. c . 4 . versions of those sides towards our eyes , caused the 36 THAT THE MOON MAY BE A WORLD . That the moon hath not any light of her.
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... dark , and the other light of itself . But enough of this ; I would be loth to make an enemy , that I may after- wards overcome him , or bestow time in proving that which is already granted ; I suppose now , that neither of them hath ...
... dark , and the other light of itself . But enough of this ; I would be loth to make an enemy , that I may after- wards overcome him , or bestow time in proving that which is already granted ; I suppose now , that neither of them hath ...
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Sida 167 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Sida 154 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
Sida 177 - They go up by the mountains; They go down by the valleys Unto the place which thou hast founded for them. Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; That they turn not again to cover the earth.
Sida 172 - And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood ; and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig-tree casteth her untimely figs when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
Sida 141 - I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear : But now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Sida 121 - And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shall thou eat all the days of thy life...
Sida 177 - Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb...
Sida 127 - He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, And hangeth the earth upon nothing. He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds ; And the cloud is not rent under them.
Sida 168 - If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth; and if a tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there shall it be.
Sida 109 - That it is possible for some of our posterity to find out a conveyance to this other world, and if there be inhabitants there, to have commerce with them.