Origines Sacrae Or a Rational Account of the Grounds of Natural and Revealed Religion: To which is Added Part of Another Book Upon the Same Subject, Left Unfinished by the Author : Together with a Letter to a Deist, Volume 2 |
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So the Phoenicians called this motion of the particles of matter αέρα ζοφώδη και TTVEVLATúồn , a dark and blustering wind . And how suitable this explication of the origin of things , from the motion of fluid matter , is to the history ...
So the Phoenicians called this motion of the particles of matter αέρα ζοφώδη και TTVEVLATúồn , a dark and blustering wind . And how suitable this explication of the origin of things , from the motion of fluid matter , is to the history ...
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But because these little particles of matter may give a tolerable account of many appearances of nature , that therefore there should be nothing else but matter and motion in the world , and that the origin of the universe should be ...
But because these little particles of matter may give a tolerable account of many appearances of nature , that therefore there should be nothing else but matter and motion in the world , and that the origin of the universe should be ...
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Epicurus's own confession all these atoms are , which CHAP . are now the component particles of bodies ; much more those which by their fortuitous concourse gave being to the world , ) and that is , if something evident to sense doth ...
Epicurus's own confession all these atoms are , which CHAP . are now the component particles of bodies ; much more those which by their fortuitous concourse gave being to the world , ) and that is , if something evident to sense doth ...
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Now though it be very questionable how some of these ways belong to a criterium of truth , yet none of them reach our case ; for there can be no incursion of insensible particles as such upon our senses : we may indeed by proportion ...
Now though it be very questionable how some of these ways belong to a criterium of truth , yet none of them reach our case ; for there can be no incursion of insensible particles as such upon our senses : we may indeed by proportion ...
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II . that there is now an universal lump of matter , out of CHAP . which these insensible particles arise , and whither they return on the dissolution of bodies ; and all these various corpuscles may be of the same uniform substance ...
II . that there is now an universal lump of matter , out of CHAP . which these insensible particles arise , and whither they return on the dissolution of bodies ; and all these various corpuscles may be of the same uniform substance ...
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