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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... ships in the Channel and the Bay of Biscay , we may conjecture their winter - quarters to be in Spain . FINNED - FOOTED WATER - BIRDS . 21. Phalaropes . - Visit us but seldom ; their breeding place is Lapland , and other arctic regions ...
... ships in the Channel and the Bay of Biscay , we may conjecture their winter - quarters to be in Spain . FINNED - FOOTED WATER - BIRDS . 21. Phalaropes . - Visit us but seldom ; their breeding place is Lapland , and other arctic regions ...
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... ships , and ordered to punish those islands which had revolted to the Persians . He was successful at first , but a sudden report that the Persian fleet was coming to attack him changed his operations as he was besieg- ing Paros . He ...
... ships , and ordered to punish those islands which had revolted to the Persians . He was successful at first , but a sudden report that the Persian fleet was coming to attack him changed his operations as he was besieg- ing Paros . He ...
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... ships of large burden ; and carries on a trade in wool , coal , and herrings . It sends two members to parliament , and is 31 miles N. of Exeter , and 161 W. by S. of London . Lon . 3. 34 W. Lat . 51. 12 N. MINEIDES , the daughters of ...
... ships of large burden ; and carries on a trade in wool , coal , and herrings . It sends two members to parliament , and is 31 miles N. of Exeter , and 161 W. by S. of London . Lon . 3. 34 W. Lat . 51. 12 N. MINEIDES , the daughters of ...
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... ship into the air ; " candour obliges us to suppose , that by talking of greater and less mira- cles , and of always rejecting the greater , he meant nothing more , but that of two deviations from the known laws of nature he always ...
... ship into the air ; " candour obliges us to suppose , that by talking of greater and less mira- cles , and of always rejecting the greater , he meant nothing more , but that of two deviations from the known laws of nature he always ...
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... ship , denotes either the mast , or sail of that name ; but at sea they always mean the sail when the word misen is used . This is the hindmost of the fixed sails of a ship , extended sometimes by a gaff , and some- times by a yard ...
... ship , denotes either the mast , or sail of that name ; but at sea they always mean the sail when the word misen is used . This is the hindmost of the fixed sails of a ship , extended sometimes by a gaff , and some- times by a yard ...
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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.