Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory, and N. Bosworth assisted by other gentlemen of eminence, Volumen81813 |
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... occur- rences of life , did not satiate his appetite for greatness . To paint things as they are re- quires a minute attention , and employs the memory rather than the fancy . Milton's de- light was to sport in the wide regions of possi ...
... occur- rences of life , did not satiate his appetite for greatness . To paint things as they are re- quires a minute attention , and employs the memory rather than the fancy . Milton's de- light was to sport in the wide regions of possi ...
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... occurs only in the books of Kings , Chronicles , Ezra , and Ezekiel . This prophet ( xlv . 12. ) tells us , that the ninah or maneh was valued at 60 shekels , which in gold make of our English money about 542 pounds , and in silver ...
... occurs only in the books of Kings , Chronicles , Ezra , and Ezekiel . This prophet ( xlv . 12. ) tells us , that the ninah or maneh was valued at 60 shekels , which in gold make of our English money about 542 pounds , and in silver ...
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... occur to us . It exhibits the differ- ent subjects arranged in an order corresponding as nearly as possible with that of their affinities , and distinguished from each other by appropriate de- Dominations , and by determinate and ...
... occur to us . It exhibits the differ- ent subjects arranged in an order corresponding as nearly as possible with that of their affinities , and distinguished from each other by appropriate de- Dominations , and by determinate and ...
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... occur in all minerals ; in the last those that are found only in particular classes of minerals . The particular generic external characters are thus advantageously arranged . 1. Colour . 2. Cohesion of particles ; distinguished into ...
... occur in all minerals ; in the last those that are found only in particular classes of minerals . The particular generic external characters are thus advantageously arranged . 1. Colour . 2. Cohesion of particles ; distinguished into ...
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... occurs in indeterminately angular and completely sphe- rical grains , which present planes of crystalliza tion , or are actually crystallized . Its fundamen- tal crystal is the octaedron , which passes into va- rious forms . It is hard ...
... occurs in indeterminately angular and completely sphe- rical grains , which present planes of crystalliza tion , or are actually crystallized . Its fundamen- tal crystal is the octaedron , which passes into va- rious forms . It is hard ...
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Página x - Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
Página x - Liberty and necessity are consistent: as in the water that hath not only liberty, but a necessity of descending by the channel; so likewise in the actions which men voluntarily do, which, because they proceed from their will, proceed from liberty, and yet because every act of man's will and every desire and inclination proceedeth from some cause, and that from another cause, in a continual chain (whose first link is in the hand of God, the first of all causes), proceed from necessity.
Página 18 - That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish.
Página x - The motions of bodies included in a given space are the same among themselves, whether that space is at rest, or moves uniformly forward in a right line without any circular motion.
Página 18 - When any one tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this person should either deceive or be deceived, or that the fact which lie relates should really have happened.
Página x - An impressed force is an action exerted upon a body, in order to change its state, either of rest or of uniform motion in a right line.
Página x - Absolute, true, and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably without relation to anything external, and by another name is called duration: relative, apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of duration by the means of motion, which is commonly used instead of true time; such as an hour, a day, a month, a year.