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 ... |
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... move by means of their muscles , the earth and planets have also muscles proportioned to their bulk , which are the instruments they move with . The sun has a very noble and active soul : his rays put in action the souls of the planets ...
... move by means of their muscles , the earth and planets have also muscles proportioned to their bulk , which are the instruments they move with . The sun has a very noble and active soul : his rays put in action the souls of the planets ...
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... but what he meant is not explained : One thing is , however , tolerably clear , and perhaps that explains his meaning ; namely , that he imagined every particle of matter to possess the inherent power of moving itself ! Dr. Robison xix.
... but what he meant is not explained : One thing is , however , tolerably clear , and perhaps that explains his meaning ; namely , that he imagined every particle of matter to possess the inherent power of moving itself ! Dr. Robison xix.
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... moving itself ! Dr. Robison , professor of natural philosophy in the university of Edinburgh , at the close of the first volume of his " Mechanical Philo- sophy , " gently remonstrates , and even re- proves him for , the atheistical ...
... moving itself ! Dr. Robison , professor of natural philosophy in the university of Edinburgh , at the close of the first volume of his " Mechanical Philo- sophy , " gently remonstrates , and even re- proves him for , the atheistical ...
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... moving POWERS intro- duced by Newton into his own system ; he says " I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and our sea by the Power of Gravity : but I have not yet assigned the cause of this power ; but am certain that it ...
... moving POWERS intro- duced by Newton into his own system ; he says " I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and our sea by the Power of Gravity : but I have not yet assigned the cause of this power ; but am certain that it ...
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... move , at the command of the will ; " ( what 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 ...
... move , at the command of the will ; " ( what 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 ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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?
Page 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...