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 41
... whole matter was produced by the casual occursions of these atoms ? It will ask more time and pains than is usually taken by the philosophers , either ancient or modern , to prove that those things , whatsoever they are , whether ...
... whole matter was produced by the casual occursions of these atoms ? It will ask more time and pains than is usually taken by the philosophers , either ancient or modern , to prove that those things , whatsoever they are , whether ...
Page 44
... whole hypothesis to be extremely precarious . The thing then ( which he must assume as his main principle , without which all his other do nothing ) is , that motion doth inseparably be- long to the least atom or insensible particle ...
... whole hypothesis to be extremely precarious . The thing then ( which he must assume as his main principle , without which all his other do nothing ) is , that motion doth inseparably be- long to the least atom or insensible particle ...
Page 47
... whole con- cretion , and consequently in the middlemost body ? For suppose them as solid as may be , yet since cor- puscles as hard as they can be made very violently to knock against them , why may not those grate or break the ...
... whole con- cretion , and consequently in the middlemost body ? For suppose them as solid as may be , yet since cor- puscles as hard as they can be made very violently to knock against them , why may not those grate or break the ...
Page 54
... whole mass of the earth will , on supposition of such a vacuity , be dis- solved into its first particles , which will all mutiny in the several bodies wherein they are , and never rest till they come to that empty space , where they ...
... whole mass of the earth will , on supposition of such a vacuity , be dis- solved into its first particles , which will all mutiny in the several bodies wherein they are , and never rest till they come to that empty space , where they ...
Page 55
... whole world still a Hesiod's chaos , ( from the consideration of which Dio- Laert . 1. x . genes Laertius tells us Epicurus began to philoso- phize , ) we might probably believe an agitation of par- ticles ( supposing matter created ) ...
... whole world still a Hesiod's chaos , ( from the consideration of which Dio- Laert . 1. x . genes Laertius tells us Epicurus began to philoso- phize , ) we might probably believe an agitation of par- ticles ( supposing matter created ) ...
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