The Inverted Scheme of Copernicus: With the Pretended Experiments Upon which His Followers Have Founded Their Hypotheses of Matter and Motion ... Contrasted with the Formation of One World by Divine Power, as it is Revealed in the History of Creation ... to which is Prefixed a Letter to Sir Humphry Davy ...J. Lang, 1822 - 216 Seiten |
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... ment of science in general ; but more particu- larly of those branches , for the improvement of which , the Royal Society was first instituted . The charters granted by King Charles the Second , and confirmed by his royal succes- sors ...
... ment of science in general ; but more particu- larly of those branches , for the improvement of which , the Royal Society was first instituted . The charters granted by King Charles the Second , and confirmed by his royal succes- sors ...
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... ment : more particularly when it is further considered , how very few subjects , at the time when it commenced its labours , remained to be examined , that had not previously been investigated and illustrated by the venerated sages of ...
... ment : more particularly when it is further considered , how very few subjects , at the time when it commenced its labours , remained to be examined , that had not previously been investigated and illustrated by the venerated sages of ...
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... ments which is required to an accurate deter- mination and demonstration of the laws by which this electric and elastic SPIRIT ope- rates . " Had he been discoursing of dead bodies , he might have applied to resurrection- men and made ...
... ments which is required to an accurate deter- mination and demonstration of the laws by which this electric and elastic SPIRIT ope- rates . " Had he been discoursing of dead bodies , he might have applied to resurrection- men and made ...
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... ment of the intellectual powers was ever for a moment contemplated . It was instituted for the improvement of natural KNOwledge . first father , Adam , was placed in the garden to dress and cultivate it ; not to run out of it after ...
... ment of the intellectual powers was ever for a moment contemplated . It was instituted for the improvement of natural KNOwledge . first father , Adam , was placed in the garden to dress and cultivate it ; not to run out of it after ...
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... ments and nations ; inasmuch as it has a direct tendency to draw them away from a know- * Thus saith the Lord , the heaven is my throne , and the earth is my footstool . Isaiah lxvi . e ledge of their Creator , and thereby to loosen , xxxi.
... ments and nations ; inasmuch as it has a direct tendency to draw them away from a know- * Thus saith the Lord , the heaven is my throne , and the earth is my footstool . Isaiah lxvi . e ledge of their Creator , and thereby to loosen , xxxi.
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 38 - ... these primitive particles being solids are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces, no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation.
Seite 93 - And I will establish my covenant with you ; neither shall all flesh be cut off" any more by the waters of a flood ; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Seite 2 - The secret things belong unto the LORD our God : but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Seite 16 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Seite 38 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...
Seite 38 - ... even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces ; no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one, in the first creation. While the particles continue entire, they may compose bodies of one and the same nature and texture in all ages ; but should they wear away or break in pieces, the nature of things depending on them would be changed.
Seite 119 - And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
Seite 76 - Or who shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? When I made the cloud the garment thereof, And thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, And brake up for it my decreed place, And set bars and doors, And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: And here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Seite 155 - For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet...