General Magazine of Arts and Sciences, Philosophical, Philological, Mathematical and Mechanical1755 |
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... Measure of Time ufed by the antient Grecians , confifting of 4 Years ; it was first inftituted by Iphitus , in the Year of the World 3174 , on Account of the Olympic Games , which were celebrated every 5th Year in the Planes of Elis ...
... Measure of Time ufed by the antient Grecians , confifting of 4 Years ; it was first inftituted by Iphitus , in the Year of the World 3174 , on Account of the Olympic Games , which were celebrated every 5th Year in the Planes of Elis ...
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... what are we to be informed ? Cleon . Our Senfes are the general Means of Information , but they are all deceptive in fome Measure ; none more so than C 2 the the Sight . My dear Euphrofyne , you will find and LADY'S PHILOSOPHY . II.
... what are we to be informed ? Cleon . Our Senfes are the general Means of Information , but they are all deceptive in fome Measure ; none more so than C 2 the the Sight . My dear Euphrofyne , you will find and LADY'S PHILOSOPHY . II.
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... Measuring Distances by Degrees ; but , I easily see the Thing you drive at , and indeed you have already explained it to me in a former Conversation . Cleon . You will find , my Euphrofyne , that a very little Ma- thematics is requifite ...
... Measuring Distances by Degrees ; but , I easily see the Thing you drive at , and indeed you have already explained it to me in a former Conversation . Cleon . You will find , my Euphrofyne , that a very little Ma- thematics is requifite ...
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... by Turns , and vifits both the Poles . Diff'rent his Track , but conftant his Career , Divides the Times , and measures out the Year . To 1 To Climes returns , where freezing Winter reigns , and LADY'S PHILOSOPHY . 39.
... by Turns , and vifits both the Poles . Diff'rent his Track , but conftant his Career , Divides the Times , and measures out the Year . To 1 To Climes returns , where freezing Winter reigns , and LADY'S PHILOSOPHY . 39.
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... measure it with a Mi- crometer in a Telescope , you would find , that when the Sun is in the 8th Degree of vs , his Diameter would measure 1967 " , and when in the 8 ° of , it measures only 1900 " ; less by 67 " than before , which is ...
... measure it with a Mi- crometer in a Telescope , you would find , that when the Sun is in the 8th Degree of vs , his Diameter would measure 1967 " , and when in the 8 ° of , it measures only 1900 " ; less by 67 " than before , which is ...
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 62 - This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont to be called Lord God...
Página 2 - ... the Instinct of Brutes and Insects, can be the effect of nothing else than the Wisdom and Skill of a powerful ever-living Agent, who being in all Places, is more able by his Will to move the Bodies within his boundless uniform Sensorium, and thereby to form and reform the Parts of the Universe, than we are by our Will to move the Parts of our own Bodies.
Página 63 - And from his true dominion it follows that the true God is a living, intelligent, and powerful Being; and from his other perfections, that he is supreme, or most perfect. He is eternal and infinite, omnipotent and omniscient; that is, his duration reaches from eternity to eternity; his presence from infinity to infinity; he governs all things, and knows all things that are or can be done.
Página 2 - Will; and he is no more the Soul of them, than the Soul of Man is the Soul of the Species of Things carried through the Organs of Sense into the place of its Sensation, where it perceives them by means of its immediate Presence, without the Intervention of any third thing.
Página 33 - Though of ethereal mould ; then form'd the moon Globose, and every magnitude of stars, And sow'd with stars the heaven thick as a field. Of light by far the greater part he took, Transplanted from her cloudy shrine, and placed In the sun's orb, made porous to receive And drink the liquid light, firm to retain Her gather'd beams, great palace now of light. Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light...
Página 2 - And so must the uniformity in the bodies of animals, they having generally a right and a left side shaped alike, and on either side of their bodies two legs behind and either two arms or two legs or two wings before upon their shoulders, and between their shoulders a neck running down into a backbone and a head upon it, and in the head two ears, two eyes, a nose, a mouth, and a tongue, alike situated.
Página 2 - And yet we are not to consider the World as the Body of God, or the several Parts thereof, as the Parts of God. He is an uniform Being, void of Organs, Members or Parts, and they are his Creatures subordinate to him, and subservient to his Will...
Página 63 - He is not eternity or infinity, but eternal and infinite; he is not duration or space, but he endures and is present. He endures for ever, and is everywhere present; and by existing always and everywhere, he constitutes duration and space.
Página 2 - For while comets move in very eccentric orbs in all manner of positions, blind fate could never make all the planets move one and the same way in orbs concentric, some inconsiderable irregularities excepted which may have risen from the mutual actions of comets and planets upon one another, and which will be apt to increase till this system wants a reformation.
Página 63 - Since every particle of space is always, and every indivisible moment of duration is every where, certainly the Maker and Lord of all things cannot be never and no where.