Matho; Or, The Cosmotheoria Puerilis ...A. Millar, 1765 - Cosmology |
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... those of your age and fortune , fo to lay out your early years , as to make the rifing generation virtuous , by the au- thority of your examples afterward . Your amusements therefore are of more confequence to the world than what is ...
... those of your age and fortune , fo to lay out your early years , as to make the rifing generation virtuous , by the au- thority of your examples afterward . Your amusements therefore are of more confequence to the world than what is ...
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... have created a prejudice against those parts of the work which , for the execution * Mr. William Baxter , author of the Enquiry into the Human Soul . Stahould be Andrew . as as well as the defign , were altogether unexceptionable .
... have created a prejudice against those parts of the work which , for the execution * Mr. William Baxter , author of the Enquiry into the Human Soul . Stahould be Andrew . as as well as the defign , were altogether unexceptionable .
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... those gentlemen , is their obftinacy in maintaining the commen- furability and perfect equability of the heavenly motions ; this , we fay , can hardly admit of an excufe ; because it contradicts univerfal experience , and the teftimony ...
... those gentlemen , is their obftinacy in maintaining the commen- furability and perfect equability of the heavenly motions ; this , we fay , can hardly admit of an excufe ; because it contradicts univerfal experience , and the teftimony ...
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... those of your age cannot be fuppofed to know them . However , I am not without hopes but that you may receive fome fort of fatisfaction as to the greatest part of your doubts . But what boy of a thoufand is it , to whom his ignorance in ...
... those of your age cannot be fuppofed to know them . However , I am not without hopes but that you may receive fome fort of fatisfaction as to the greatest part of your doubts . But what boy of a thoufand is it , to whom his ignorance in ...
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... those parts , than about the middle of it . M. You mean it is flatter , or less protuberant about those poles . P. That is it . M. It may be fo ; but let me confider a little with myfelf , if I can apprehend the force of this fecond ...
... those parts , than about the middle of it . M. You mean it is flatter , or less protuberant about those poles . P. That is it . M. It may be fo ; but let me confider a little with myfelf , if I can apprehend the force of this fecond ...
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Page 278 - ... the vena cava, which opens into the right auricle of the heart.
Page 301 - P. Come, tell me, Who teaches the young of all animals, without exception, firft to make ufe of their limbs, and move their bodies ? As we obferved before, this. is a fecret to all the philofophers on earth, how fpontaneous motion is performed.
Page 118 - We all knew from our school-boy days that, at the poles of the earth there is but one day and one night in the year ; but, when brought face to face with the reality, it is hard to realize.
Page 103 - I fay, the earth hath got between the fun and theft flarst they become obfervable in the night time, as not being intercepted from our fight by the fun's rays. And in this manner they appear during the whole winter ; only they feem to get more wefterly every night, as the earth moves gradually by them to the eaft. M. This I eafily conceive : for the...