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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Page 45
... space . Might presso a not Epicurus then have saved his credit better by sit- translato , ting down with the opinions of his forefathers , than tom . iii.Op. thus to go a begging for such hypotheses , which none , who are not resolved ...
... space . Might presso a not Epicurus then have saved his credit better by sit- translato , ting down with the opinions of his forefathers , than tom . iii.Op. thus to go a begging for such hypotheses , which none , who are not resolved ...
Page 48
... space ; which appears from those gross and extravagant suppositions of Epicurus , in order to the making these atoms of his so hit together that they make up any bodies by their contexture . 1. He supposeth as it were two regions , a ...
... space ; which appears from those gross and extravagant suppositions of Epicurus , in order to the making these atoms of his so hit together that they make up any bodies by their contexture . 1. He supposeth as it were two regions , a ...
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... space , on the two grounds he went on ; which were the natural descent of atoms , and the æqui - velocity of the motion of all atoms of what size soever ; which he likewise asserted ( although one would think , if gravity were the cause ...
... space , on the two grounds he went on ; which were the natural descent of atoms , and the æqui - velocity of the motion of all atoms of what size soever ; which he likewise asserted ( although one would think , if gravity were the cause ...
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... space grow to be very oblique ; for there is nothing to hinder the mo- tion which way it bends : now if there be never so little motion of declination , the atom will be inclined that way ; and what then should hinder , but that the ...
... space grow to be very oblique ; for there is nothing to hinder the mo- tion which way it bends : now if there be never so little motion of declination , the atom will be inclined that way ; and what then should hinder , but that the ...
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... space which lies between our atmosphere and the stars is empty of any other thing but only the rays of the stars which pass through it ; I then supposing it a vacuity , whe- ther would not the particles of those bodies , which lie ...
... space which lies between our atmosphere and the stars is empty of any other thing but only the rays of the stars which pass through it ; I then supposing it a vacuity , whe- ther would not the particles of those bodies , which lie ...
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