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, Том 1C. Whittingham, 1802 |
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... able critic ; his talent of preaching was admirable , and more suited to profit than to please his hearers ; he affected an apt and plain way of speech , and expressed his conceptions in a natural style . In his writings he was ...
... able critic ; his talent of preaching was admirable , and more suited to profit than to please his hearers ; he affected an apt and plain way of speech , and expressed his conceptions in a natural style . In his writings he was ...
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... able to add some cre- dit to his assertion , could not escape the like censure from others . For Natales Comes * , speaking of that philosopher , and this his opinion , saith thus : Nonnulli ne nihil scisse videantur , aliqua nova ...
... able to add some cre- dit to his assertion , could not escape the like censure from others . For Natales Comes * , speaking of that philosopher , and this his opinion , saith thus : Nonnulli ne nihil scisse videantur , aliqua nova ...
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... able to fancy as possible . Upon which considera- tions , Bede also denies the being of any Antipodes , Neque enim Antipodarum ullatenus est fabulis accommodandus * De civit . Dei , l . 16. cap . 9 . + Institut . 1. 3. cap . 24 ...
... able to fancy as possible . Upon which considera- tions , Bede also denies the being of any Antipodes , Neque enim Antipodarum ullatenus est fabulis accommodandus * De civit . Dei , l . 16. cap . 9 . + Institut . 1. 3. cap . 24 ...
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... able to make noise enough to deliver the labouring moon . Una laboranti poterit succurrere lunæ ‡ . Now the reason of all this their ceremony , was , because they feared the world would fall asleep , when one of its eyes began to wink ...
... able to make noise enough to deliver the labouring moon . Una laboranti poterit succurrere lunæ ‡ . Now the reason of all this their ceremony , was , because they feared the world would fall asleep , when one of its eyes began to wink ...
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... able to convince a necessity of any such matter , as is confessed by their own side * . It were much to be desired , that these men had not in other cases , as well as this , multiplied things without necessity ; and , as if there had ...
... able to convince a necessity of any such matter , as is confessed by their own side * . It were much to be desired , that these men had not in other cases , as well as this , multiplied things without necessity ; and , as if there had ...
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absurd according adversaries æthereal affirm afterwards amongst Anaxagoras ancient answer Antipodes appear argument Aristotle assent unto astronomy beams betwixt bigger body brightness bullet cælo Cæsar cause centre cerning clouds comets common opinion conceive concerning conclude confirm Copernicus creatures discern discourse distance diurnal diurnal motion divers doth earth eclipses enlightened fathers fixed stars Galilæus Gibeon globe of earth ground hæc hath heat heavens Holy Ghost inhabitants Julius Cæsar Jupiter Keplar kind Lactantius light likewise lunæ matter miles moon Moses motion mountains move nature observed opacous philosophers planets Plato Plut Plutarch probable PROP prove Psal Ptolemy Pythagoras quæ quod reason saith Saturn scripture sect sense sextile shadow shew ship speaking sphere strange sun-beams sun's suppose swiftness terræ things thought tion Tostatus true truth Tycho urged vaporous air vapours venerable Bede Vesta vulgar whence whereas wherein words
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Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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...
Стр. 177 - Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb...
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.