Considerations on the Substance of the SunMetropolis of the United States of America: Printed by Way and Groff, September, 1801 - 87 Seiten |
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... cause of all things . He is faid first to have discovered that the air was fufceptible of rarefaction and condensation ; but the particulars of his different doctrines are loft . Diogenes is faid to have thought , that the substance of ...
... cause of all things . He is faid first to have discovered that the air was fufceptible of rarefaction and condensation ; but the particulars of his different doctrines are loft . Diogenes is faid to have thought , that the substance of ...
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... cause of the Universe ; and the principle of all motion . He maintained however the eternal co - existence of matter with mind ; as an eter- nal effect , proceeding from an eternal caufe . The visible world he conceived to have been ...
... cause of the Universe ; and the principle of all motion . He maintained however the eternal co - existence of matter with mind ; as an eter- nal effect , proceeding from an eternal caufe . The visible world he conceived to have been ...
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... cause of electric phæno- mena , have been compelled , in order to express the sub- ject of that materiality , to use an aukward and deceptive circumlocution , the parent , if not of error , at least of ambiguity . To the adjective ...
... cause of electric phæno- mena , have been compelled , in order to express the sub- ject of that materiality , to use an aukward and deceptive circumlocution , the parent , if not of error , at least of ambiguity . To the adjective ...
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... cause produ- cing this peculiar motion , paffes out of one cloud in the atmosphere into another cloud , or out of a cloud in the atmosphere into the earth . 90 . Nature of found . The found attending the motion of this portion of elec ...
... cause produ- cing this peculiar motion , paffes out of one cloud in the atmosphere into another cloud , or out of a cloud in the atmosphere into the earth . 90 . Nature of found . The found attending the motion of this portion of elec ...
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... cause could have no operation . The second cause must have , on the principles of New- ton , an inevitable operation , unless some oppofing cause can be affigned to overcome it . The only affignable cause to overcome this difficulty was ...
... cause could have no operation . The second cause must have , on the principles of New- ton , an inevitable operation , unless some oppofing cause can be affigned to overcome it . The only affignable cause to overcome this difficulty was ...
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Seite 31 - Leyden, of much eminence, said that " he felt himself struck in his arms, shoulders, and breast, so that he lost his breath ; and it was two days before he recovered from the effects of the blow and the terror ; adding, that he would not take a second shock for the kingdom of France.
Seite 69 - ... inches long, held in the hand, over the centre « of the cake, will, of itfelf, begin to move in a circle, « round the iron globe, and conftantly from weft to eaft.
Seite 69 - ... as the distance of the globe from the centre of the cake. If the cake of rosin be of an elliptical form, and the iron globe be placed in the centre of it, the light body will describe an elliptical orbit of the same excentricity with the form of the Cake.
Seite 36 - ... bonds, and round and round him gazed ; Starts up from earth above the admiring throng Lifts his colossal form and towers along ; High o'er his foes his hundred arms he rears, Plowshares his swords and pruning hooks his spears ; Calls to the good and brave with voice that rolls Like Heaven's own thunder round the echoing poles ; Gives to the winds his banner broad unfurl'd, And gathers in its shade the living world...
Seite 34 - O'er the young Sage your mystic mantle spread, And wreath'd the crown electric round his head.— Thus when on wanton wing intrepid LOVE 390 Snatch'd the raised lightning from the arm of JOVE; Quick o'er his knee the triple bolt He bent, The cluster'd darts and forky arrows rent, Snapp'd with illumin'd hands each flaming shaft, His tingling fingers shook, and stamp'd, and laugh'd...
Seite 69 - To this should be added the following description of the manner in which these experiments can be made : " Place a small iron globe, of an inch or an inch and a half in diameter, on the middle of a circular cake of...
Seite 69 - ... and thofe either concentric or eccentric to the centre of the large body about which they move, fo as to make many revolutions about them. And this motion will conftantly be the fame way that the planets move about the fun, viz. from the right hand to the left, or from weft to eaft. But thefe little planets, if I may fo call them, move much fafter in their apogeon than in the perigeon parts of their orbits ; which is directly contrary to the motion of the planets about the fun.
Seite 21 - No objection, says he, ariseth to that great luminary being inhabited ; vegetation may obtain there, as well as with us. There may be water and dry land, hills and dales, rain and fair weather, and as the light, so the season, must be eternal, consequently it may easily be conceived to be by far the most blissful habitation of the whole system.