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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... particular matter . You may see this point more largely handled , and these arguments more fully answered by Plu- tarch in his book , " Why Oracles are silent , " and Jacob Carpentarius in his comment on Alcinous . But our opposites ...
... particular matter . You may see this point more largely handled , and these arguments more fully answered by Plu- tarch in his book , " Why Oracles are silent , " and Jacob Carpentarius in his comment on Alcinous . But our opposites ...
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... particular is no sufficient testimony against us . But lastly , I answer to all the above - named objections , that the term ( world ) may be taken in a double sense , more generally for the whole universe , as it implies in it * L . 2 ...
... particular is no sufficient testimony against us . But lastly , I answer to all the above - named objections , that the term ( world ) may be taken in a double sense , more generally for the whole universe , as it implies in it * L . 2 ...
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... particular , may perhaps disable him from being a competent judge in any other the like point of philosophy . Unto these agreed Pythagoras , who thought that our earth was but one of the planets which moved round about the sun , ( as ...
... particular , may perhaps disable him from being a competent judge in any other the like point of philosophy . Unto these agreed Pythagoras , who thought that our earth was but one of the planets which moved round about the sun , ( as ...
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... particular . With him agreed Alcinous and Plotinus , later writers . Thus Lucian also in his discourse of a journey to the moon , where though he does speak many things out of mirth and in a jesting manner ; yet in the beginning of it ...
... particular . With him agreed Alcinous and Plotinus , later writers . Thus Lucian also in his discourse of a journey to the moon , where though he does speak many things out of mirth and in a jesting manner ; yet in the beginning of it ...
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... particular place , and so is not like that brightness which we discern in the moon ; because this does appear equally in several situations , like that of the wall , which does seem bright as well from every place , as from any one ...
... particular place , and so is not like that brightness which we discern in the moon ; because this does appear equally in several situations , like that of the wall , which does seem bright as well from every place , as from any one ...
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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.