An Enquiry After Philosophy and Theology: Tending to Show when and Whence Mankind Came at the Knowledge of These Two Important PointsSands, Donaldson, Murray, and Cochran. Sold by A. Kincaid & A. Donaldson, 1755 - 425 páginas |
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... ethereal medium , flying here and there throughout the universe . I fay here and there , because a plenitude of matter of any fort is positively denied , even by those who talk of the impulfes of an ethereal < c • ethereal medium being ...
... ethereal medium , flying here and there throughout the universe . I fay here and there , because a plenitude of matter of any fort is positively denied , even by those who talk of the impulfes of an ethereal < c • ethereal medium being ...
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... ethereal medium being the cause of gravity . And I fhall endeavour to fhew the incon fiftencies of each of these notions : 1ft , That matter can have no fuch property or affec- tion as ... ethereal medium being the cause of gravity. ...
... ethereal medium being the cause of gravity . And I fhall endeavour to fhew the incon fiftencies of each of these notions : 1ft , That matter can have no fuch property or affec- tion as ... ethereal medium being the cause of gravity. ...
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... ethereal medium that " is diffufed over the universe , and pene- " trates the pores of groffer bodies that " it appears from his letters to Mr Boyle , " that this was his opinion early ; and if he did not publish it fooner , it ...
... ethereal medium that " is diffufed over the universe , and pene- " trates the pores of groffer bodies that " it appears from his letters to Mr Boyle , " that this was his opinion early ; and if he did not publish it fooner , it ...
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... ethereal medium . So then , in 1706 , this rare ethereal medium was of no use towards the explanation of the phenomena of nature , and ferved only " to disturb and retard the motion of the heavenly bodies , and make the frame of nature ...
... ethereal medium . So then , in 1706 , this rare ethereal medium was of no use towards the explanation of the phenomena of nature , and ferved only " to disturb and retard the motion of the heavenly bodies , and make the frame of nature ...
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... ethereal medium is no better than the ma- teria fubtilis of Duns Scotus . For if nei- ther Sir Ifaac Newton , nor any of his fol- lowers , have demonftrated the laws of this ethereal medium , and proved to fatisfaction how it acts upon ...
... ethereal medium is no better than the ma- teria fubtilis of Duns Scotus . For if nei- ther Sir Ifaac Newton , nor any of his fol- lowers , have demonftrated the laws of this ethereal medium , and proved to fatisfaction how it acts upon ...
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Página 325 - Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you : for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. 36 While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light.
Página 376 - For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us...
Página 326 - O send out thy light and thy truth, that they may lead me : and bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy dwelling.
Página 341 - Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them.
Página 82 - The vis inertiae is a passive Principle by which Bodies persist in their Motion or Rest, receive Motion in proportion to the Force impressing it, and resist as much as they are resisted. By this Principle alone there never could have been any Motion in the World.
Página 287 - And though this increase of density may at great distances be exceeding slow, yet if the elastic force of this medium be exceeding great it may suffice to impel bodies from the denser parts of the medium towards the rarer with all that power which we call gravity.
Página 300 - Fermentation, by which the Heart and Blood of Animals are kept in perpetual Motion and Heat; the inward Parts of the Earth are constantly...
Página 242 - 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.
Página 323 - And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud ; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.