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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... move ; how this motion produced light ; the light , a firmament or expanfion , which by its action divided the waters from the waters , and formed the earth into a stage and storehouse for men ; with a diftinct relation of the formation ...
... move ; how this motion produced light ; the light , a firmament or expanfion , which by its action divided the waters from the waters , and formed the earth into a stage and storehouse for men ; with a diftinct relation of the formation ...
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... motion of the earth , and of the agents which move it , Eccl . i . 4. From whence I think it plainly appears , that mankind must have been acquainted with the the powers of nature ; otherwise how should they distinguish 16 INTRODUCTION .
... motion of the earth , and of the agents which move it , Eccl . i . 4. From whence I think it plainly appears , that mankind must have been acquainted with the the powers of nature ; otherwise how should they distinguish 16 INTRODUCTION .
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... moves the orbs ) ; or if , to account for gra- vity and attraction by a medium , we fup- pose the particles of that medium elaftic , repulfive , or what else we please ; this draws us in to attribute the effential incom- municable ...
... moves the orbs ) ; or if , to account for gra- vity and attraction by a medium , we fup- pose the particles of that medium elaftic , repulfive , or what else we please ; this draws us in to attribute the effential incom- municable ...
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... move this , is the aim and design of this enquiry . I fhall therefore , in the course of these sheets , endeavour to shew , ift , THAT the Newtonian philofophy has not fixed and determined , to the cer- tainty D tainty they pretend ...
... move this , is the aim and design of this enquiry . I fhall therefore , in the course of these sheets , endeavour to shew , ift , THAT the Newtonian philofophy has not fixed and determined , to the cer- tainty D tainty they pretend ...
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... move round it , but took the philofophic licence to suppose it , for the more fimple explication of the phenomena of nature . As a plenum and the air had been ge- nerally nerally allowed to be the caufe of motion , though PHILOSOPHY and ...
... move round it , but took the philofophic licence to suppose it , for the more fimple explication of the phenomena of nature . As a plenum and the air had been ge- nerally nerally allowed to be the caufe of motion , though PHILOSOPHY and ...
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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.