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 2University Press, 1836 - 542 pages |
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... space , in which were an innumerable company of solid particles , or atoms of different sizes and shapes , which by their weight were in continual motion ; and that by the various 1. x . p . 290 . Lucret . de Nat . v . 199 . Euseb ...
... space , in which were an innumerable company of solid particles , or atoms of different sizes and shapes , which by their weight were in continual motion ; and that by the various 1. x . p . 290 . Lucret . de Nat . v . 199 . Euseb ...
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... space ; in which , after many encounters and facings about , they fell into their several troops , and made up that ordered battalia which now the world is the scheme of . It was not impru- dently done of Epicurus to make the worlds ...
... space ; in which , after many encounters and facings about , they fell into their several troops , and made up that ordered battalia which now the world is the scheme of . It was not impru- dently done of Epicurus to make the worlds ...
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... space , to be the origin of the world ? I know not where to find them , unless dancing with the schoolmen's chimeras in a vacuum , or in a space as empty as the infinite one , viz . some Epicurean's brains . Neither therein will they be ...
... space , to be the origin of the world ? I know not where to find them , unless dancing with the schoolmen's chimeras in a vacuum , or in a space as empty as the infinite one , viz . some Epicurean's brains . Neither therein will they be ...
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... space , and the manner of the concretion of bodies by the concourse of these atoms . 1. I begin with their motion ; which Epicurus at- tributes to his atoms without any hesitation , and yet XIV . BOOK never undertakes to give an account ...
... space , and the manner of the concretion of bodies by the concourse of these atoms . 1. I begin with their motion ; which Epicurus at- tributes to his atoms without any hesitation , and yet XIV . BOOK never undertakes to give an account ...
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... space , where there can be no impulsion from other bodies , no attraction from any magnetic particles , which are sup- posed to be the causes of the descent of heavy bodies ? Gassendus Nay , Epicurus himself takes away any centre of ...
... space , where there can be no impulsion from other bodies , no attraction from any magnetic particles , which are sup- posed to be the causes of the descent of heavy bodies ? Gassendus Nay , Epicurus himself takes away any centre of ...
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