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, Volumen1C. Whittingham, 1802 |
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... argument from the words of scrip- ture , principles of nature , or observations in astronomy , which can sufficiently evidence the earth to be in the centre of the universe Page 135 149 159 174 181 189 VII . It is probable that the sun ...
... argument from the words of scrip- ture , principles of nature , or observations in astronomy , which can sufficiently evidence the earth to be in the centre of the universe Page 135 149 159 174 181 189 VII . It is probable that the sun ...
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... arguments for the proof of this opinion ; and therefore you must not look that every consequence should be of an undeniable de- pendance ; or that the truth of each argument should be measured by its necessity . I grant , that some ...
... arguments for the proof of this opinion ; and therefore you must not look that every consequence should be of an undeniable de- pendance ; or that the truth of each argument should be measured by its necessity . I grant , that some ...
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... arguments , induce any of the christian princes , either to assent unto his opinion , or go to the charges of an experiment . Now if he , who had such good grounds for his assertion , could find no better entertainment among the wiser ...
... arguments , induce any of the christian princes , either to assent unto his opinion , or go to the charges of an experiment . Now if he , who had such good grounds for his assertion , could find no better entertainment among the wiser ...
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... argument of force for any subject in philosophy , which may not be picked out of his writings ; and therefore it is ... arguments which he himself urges in this subject , are very weak , and far enough from having in them any convincing ...
... argument of force for any subject in philosophy , which may not be picked out of his writings ; and therefore it is ... arguments which he himself urges in this subject , are very weak , and far enough from having in them any convincing ...
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... argument he had from his master Plato ‡ , That there is but one world , because there is but one first mover , God ... arguments more fully answered by Plu- tarch in his book , " Why Oracles are silent , " and Jacob Carpentarius in his ...
... argument he had from his master Plato ‡ , That there is but one world , because there is but one first mover , God ... arguments more fully answered by Plu- tarch in his book , " Why Oracles are silent , " and Jacob Carpentarius in his ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 177 - Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.