Principles of Natural and Metaphysical Philosophy: Intended on a More Ancient, Common-sense, and Popular Plan, and More Consistent Also with Later Improvements that the Cartesian Or Newtonian : Comprimising a Review of Prevailing Systems Now Taught ...Hilliard and Brown, 1829 - 129 páginas |
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... repulsion has passed along with him over the sea ; then that of the comparatively stationary moon may follow after ; since we can hardly suppose , that the sea is so elastic as to arise from a mere rebound . It is the electric repulsion ...
... repulsion has passed along with him over the sea ; then that of the comparatively stationary moon may follow after ; since we can hardly suppose , that the sea is so elastic as to arise from a mere rebound . It is the electric repulsion ...
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... excited on their surfaces , escapes outwardly , or where it finds least resistance to its diffusion , and thus discovers the electric attraction and repulsion . To trace still further the circumstances which develop the real 21.
... excited on their surfaces , escapes outwardly , or where it finds least resistance to its diffusion , and thus discovers the electric attraction and repulsion . To trace still further the circumstances which develop the real 21.
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... repulsion . Other arguments arise from the circumstance , that those substances , which are good or bad conductors of electricity , are the same with re- spect to heat . Water and the metals absorb both with equal readiness ; the latter ...
... repulsion . Other arguments arise from the circumstance , that those substances , which are good or bad conductors of electricity , are the same with re- spect to heat . Water and the metals absorb both with equal readiness ; the latter ...
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... repulsion resulting from different degrees of electricity in the comet and the sun's ashes . These ashes may then be carried off by the comet to distant parts of the heavens , where becoming some- what condensed , by some means or other ...
... repulsion resulting from different degrees of electricity in the comet and the sun's ashes . These ashes may then be carried off by the comet to distant parts of the heavens , where becoming some- what condensed , by some means or other ...
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... repulsion merely , which , on being driven into space , may become a new comet ; and thus comets may be alternately formed and destroyed . These ideas may appear somewhat wild , but perhaps not wholly irrational , or indeed wilder than ...
... repulsion merely , which , on being driven into space , may become a new comet ; and thus comets may be alternately formed and destroyed . These ideas may appear somewhat wild , but perhaps not wholly irrational , or indeed wilder than ...
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absorb according analogy Anaxagoras animal heat appears Aristotle atmosphere attraction become body burning burning-glass called caloric Cartesian cause cohesion cold colours combustion comet consequently consistency constitutes Creusa decomposition degree Deity Descartes distance distinct earth effects elec electric fire electrified element elementary fire essence of matter evident existence extension fall flame fluid force friction fuel ghost glass gravitation grosser heavens Hence idea immaterial immediate imponderable instance iron Justin Martyr kind latent fire less magnetism material means merely metal metaphysics mind moon motion natural philosophy nature needle observed opposite oxygen particles pass phenomena philosophy planets Plotinus pneumatology principle prism produce pure fire qualities quantity rays reason red-hot reflected repulsion revolve says sensation sense skepticism sort soul sparks spect spirit stance substance substance of fire subtile sun's suppose surface tendency thing tides tion torrid zone tourmaline tricity vapour visible wholly
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Página 122 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up.
Página 89 - And now we might add something concerning a certain most subtle Spirit which pervades and lies hid in all gross bodies...
Página 100 - ... and if he were demanded, what is it that solidity and extension adhere in, he would not be in a much better case than the Indian before mentioned who, saying that the world was supported by a great elephant, was asked what the elephant rested on; to which his answer was — a great tortoise: but being again pressed to know what gave support to the broad-backed tortoise, replied — something, he knew not -what.
Página 92 - He is omnipresent, not virtually only but also substantially ; for virtue cannot subsist without substance. In Him are all things contained and moved ; yet neither affects the other. God suffers nothing from the motion of bodies ; bodies find no resistance from the omnipresence of God. It is allowed by all that the supreme God exists necessarily, and by the same necessity He exists always and everywhere.
Página 100 - So that if any one will examine himself concerning his notion of pure substance in general he will find he has no other idea of it at all, but only a supposition of he knows not what support of such finalities which are capable of producing simple ideas in us, which qualities are commonly called accidents.
Página 89 - ... all sensation is excited, and the members of animal bodies move at the command of the will, namely, by the vibrations of this Spirit, mutually propagated along the solid filaments of the nerves, from the outward organs of sense to the brain, and from the brain into the muscles.
Página 124 - Trenmor came, from his hill, at the voice of his mighty son. A cloud, like the steed of the stranger, supported his airy limbs. His robe is of the mist of Lano, that brings death to the people. His sword is a green meteor half- extinguished.
Página 124 - Crugal, or find his lone steps in the heath. I am light as the blast of Cromla, and I move like the shadow of mist. Connal, son of Colgar, I see the dark cloud of death: it hovers over the plains of Lena. The sons of green Erin shall fall. Remove from the field of ghosts.
Página 101 - The same happens concerning the operations of the mind, viz., thinking, reasoning, fearing, etc., which we concluding not to subsist of themselves, nor apprehending how they can belong to body, or be produced by it, we are apt to think these the actions of some other substance, which we call spirit...
Página 100 - Which in truth signifies no more, when so used either by children or men, but that they know not what; and that the thing they pretend to...