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... earth ; nor for the maintenance of the Lives or Liberties either of our felves or others ; nor for the defenfe of Religion ; not for the prefervation of a Church or State : no nor yet , if that could be imagined possible , for the ...
... earth ; nor for the maintenance of the Lives or Liberties either of our felves or others ; nor for the defenfe of Religion ; not for the prefervation of a Church or State : no nor yet , if that could be imagined possible , for the ...
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... the lefs of the two , in their approach one to another , will move twenty fix foot , while the other moves but one foot . N 3 Where- 1 Wherefore the quantity of matter in the Earth being twenty NATURAL PHILOSOPHY . 181.
... the lefs of the two , in their approach one to another , will move twenty fix foot , while the other moves but one foot . N 3 Where- 1 Wherefore the quantity of matter in the Earth being twenty NATURAL PHILOSOPHY . 181.
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... Earth being twenty fix times more , than in the Moon ; the motion in the Moon to- wards the Earth , by the common force of at- traction by which they are impell'd towards one another , will be twenty fix times as faft as in the Earth ...
... Earth being twenty fix times more , than in the Moon ; the motion in the Moon to- wards the Earth , by the common force of at- traction by which they are impell'd towards one another , will be twenty fix times as faft as in the Earth ...
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... Earth the fole body in the universe , and at reft : if God fhould create the Moon , at the fame distance that it is now from the Earth ; the Earth , and the Moon would prefently begin to move one towards another in a ftrait line by this ...
... Earth the fole body in the universe , and at reft : if God fhould create the Moon , at the fame distance that it is now from the Earth ; the Earth , and the Moon would prefently begin to move one towards another in a ftrait line by this ...
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... Earth , which we inhabit , is one . All these are vifible to our naked eyes . Béfides thefe , Telescopes have discover- ed feveral fixt Stars , invifible to the naked eye ; and several other bodies moving a- bout fome of the Planets ...
... Earth , which we inhabit , is one . All these are vifible to our naked eyes . Béfides thefe , Telescopes have discover- ed feveral fixt Stars , invifible to the naked eye ; and several other bodies moving a- bout fome of the Planets ...
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Page 327 - Therein are contain'd the words of eternal Life. It has God, for its Author; Salvation, for its end ; and Truth, without any mixture of Error, for its matter. So that, it is a wonder to me, how any one
Page 311 - but in the confcioufnefs of doing well, and in the hopes of another Life. This is, what I can fay, upon experience? and what you will find to be true, when you come to make up the account. Adieu : I leave my beft
Page 215 - a man, by ufe, hath got this faculty of obferving and judging of the reafoning and coherence of what he reads, and how it proves what it pretends to teach ; he is then, and not till then, in the right way of improving his understanding, and enlarging his knowledge by Reading. But that, as I have
Page 74 - the *? Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom '* the faid Bill was committed, to the end ',< that nothing fhould remain in the faid «< Bill, which might any ways tend towards " the depriving of either of the Houfes of " Parliament, or any of their Members, of " their ancient freedom of debates, or votes,
Page 175 - the Earth turns round upon its own Axis in 24 hours. The turning of the Earth upon its own Axis every 24 Hours, whilft it moves round the Sun in a Year; we may conceive by the running of a bowl on a bowling green: in which not only the center of the bowl hath a
Page 43 - that Bartholomew day was fatal to our Church and Religion, in throwing out a very great number of worthy, learned, pious, and orthodox Divines, who could not come up to this, and other things in that
Page 173 - An Eclipfe of the Moon is, when the Earth being between the Sun and the Moon, hinders the light of the Sun from falling upon and being reflected by the Moon. If the light of the Sun is kept off from the whole body of the Moon, it is a total
Page 173 - Moon, hinders the light of the Sun from falling upon and being reflected by the Moon. If the light of the Sun is kept off from the whole body of the Moon, it is a total Eclipfe; if from a part only, it is a partial one.
Page 218 - and modern Philofophers: but the Morality of the Gofpel doth fo exceed them all, that to give a man a full knowledge of true morality, I {hould fend him to no other book, but the New
Page 226 - in ufefulnefs, pleafantry, and a conftant decorum. And indeed no writings can be pleafant which have not Nature at the bottom, and are not drawn after her copy. There is another fort of books, which I had