Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy: Considered in It's [sic] Present State of Improvement. Describing in a Familiar and Easy Manner, the Principal Phenomena of Nature; and Shewing, that They All Co-operate in Displaying the Goodness, Wisdom, and Power of God, Band 3R. Hindmarsh, 1794 |
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... kind ; it is indeed included in the idea of impene- trability , when it is confidered with refpect to fpace , namely , that two particles of matter cannot exift at the fame time in the fame place ; they are therefore extended , that is ...
... kind ; it is indeed included in the idea of impene- trability , when it is confidered with refpect to fpace , namely , that two particles of matter cannot exift at the fame time in the fame place ; they are therefore extended , that is ...
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... kind of philofophical felony to fteal an image which nature gives us , and inveft a fubject with it that never excited any idea in us , and confequently has no exiflence to us ; we thus create nothing into a being , by applying ideas to ...
... kind of philofophical felony to fteal an image which nature gives us , and inveft a fubject with it that never excited any idea in us , and confequently has no exiflence to us ; we thus create nothing into a being , by applying ideas to ...
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... number ; there is therefore no connec- tion between matter having dimenfions , and it's confifting of parts ; or one body is not many in refpect respect of another of the fame kind , because it's 14 LECTURES ON NATURAL PHILOSOPHY .
... number ; there is therefore no connec- tion between matter having dimenfions , and it's confifting of parts ; or one body is not many in refpect respect of another of the fame kind , because it's 14 LECTURES ON NATURAL PHILOSOPHY .
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... kind , because it's fubftance is larger . Therefore every atom or unit of matter has ex- tenfion , which we may fuppofe to have menfura- ble proportions ; but the atom itself is incapable of divifion , because it does not confift of ...
... kind , because it's fubftance is larger . Therefore every atom or unit of matter has ex- tenfion , which we may fuppofe to have menfura- ble proportions ; but the atom itself is incapable of divifion , because it does not confift of ...
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... kind with itself . The operations in nature , as far as we can trace them , are carried on mechanically ; and though our fenfes are limited as to the minutie of that mechanifm , yet we are certain that matter does exift in fuch forms ...
... kind with itself . The operations in nature , as far as we can trace them , are carried on mechanically ; and though our fenfes are limited as to the minutie of that mechanifm , yet we are certain that matter does exift in fuch forms ...
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Seite 511 - In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun; which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Seite 511 - Their line is gone out through all the earth, And their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun...
Seite 363 - One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head ; to make the head requires two or three distinct operations ; to put it on is a peculiar business, to whiten the pins is another ; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the paper; and the important business of making a pin is in this manner divided into about eighteen distinct operations...
Seite 363 - But in the way in which this business is now carried on, not only the whole work is a peculiar trade, but it is divided into a number of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades.
Seite 364 - ... the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.
Seite 458 - But the exercise of swimming, said the prince, is very laborious: the strongest limbs are soon wearied. I am afraid the act of flying will be yet more violent; and wings will be of no great use, unless we can fly further than we can swim.
Seite 459 - should you envy others so great an advantage? All skill ought to be exerted for universal good; every man has owed much to others and ought to repay the kindness that he has received.
Seite 511 - Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created.
Seite 460 - ... waved his pinions a while to gather air, then leaped from his stand, and in an instant dropped into the lake. His wings, which were of no use in the air, sustained him in the water, and the prince drew him to land, half dead with terror and vexation.
Seite 12 - ... 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.