A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps: With Reflections on Atheistical Philosophy, Now Exemplified in France, Τόμος 2T. Becket, 1794 |
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Σελίδα 2
... imagine , that the state of our acquisitions , is the state of absolute information . With sure , but gentle pace , nature pursues her ends . She composes and decomposes with mea- Let sured step . We may think ourselves possessed of her ...
... imagine , that the state of our acquisitions , is the state of absolute information . With sure , but gentle pace , nature pursues her ends . She composes and decomposes with mea- Let sured step . We may think ourselves possessed of her ...
Σελίδα 109
... imagine , that much dephlogisticated air may be detached from variety of bodies within the bowels of the earth , by means of heat ; and that such dephlo- gisticated air , will serve to keep those very fires burning , which are the ...
... imagine , that much dephlogisticated air may be detached from variety of bodies within the bowels of the earth , by means of heat ; and that such dephlo- gisticated air , will serve to keep those very fires burning , which are the ...
Σελίδα 160
... imagine them capable of disunion . It is objected , that the currents of lava which have issued from Etna and Vesuvius within the memory of man , have never been known to have exhibited this regularity of arrangement . It is therefore ...
... imagine them capable of disunion . It is objected , that the currents of lava which have issued from Etna and Vesuvius within the memory of man , have never been known to have exhibited this regularity of arrangement . It is therefore ...
Σελίδα 207
... imagine duration and eternity to have had a li- mitation of 6000 years ? My conception of the origin of these things , as well as of dependent beings , must inlarge . I cannot be satisfied with a boundary which seems to have been ...
... imagine duration and eternity to have had a li- mitation of 6000 years ? My conception of the origin of these things , as well as of dependent beings , must inlarge . I cannot be satisfied with a boundary which seems to have been ...
Σελίδα 243
... found in the bible . From all this , however , says Tindall , some would be almost apt to imagine that the author of the book of Genesis thought Q 2 that that ideas had words naturally fixed to them , and LETTER XLIII . 243.
... found in the bible . From all this , however , says Tindall , some would be almost apt to imagine that the author of the book of Genesis thought Q 2 that that ideas had words naturally fixed to them , and LETTER XLIII . 243.
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Σελίδα 293 - And God said unto Noah. The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Σελίδα 258 - And God made the firmament, and divided the waters, which were under the firmament from the waters, which were above the firmament: and it was so.
Σελίδα 282 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
Σελίδα 286 - He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
Σελίδα 117 - The heat of the metal of the first gun drove so much damp into the mould of the second, which was near it, that as soon as the metal was let into it, it blew up with the greatest violence, tearing up the ground some feet deep, breaking down the furnace, untiling the house, killing many spectators on the spot, with the streams of melted metal, and scalding many others in a most miserable manner.
Σελίδα 72 - So it is in contemplation ; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts ; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Σελίδα 338 - Sea; this huge mass of stone is softened and dissolved as a tender cloud into rain. Here stood the African mountains, and Atlas with his top above the clouds: there was frozen Caucasus, and Taurus, and Imaus, and the mountains of Asia ; and yonder, towards the north, stood the Riphaean hills, clothed in ice and snow.
Σελίδα 399 - Thousands of thousands of suns, multiplied without end, and ranged all around us, at immense distances from each other, attended by ten thousand times ten thousand worlds, all in rapid motion, yet calm, regular, and harmonious, invariably keeping the paths prescribed them ; and these worlds peopled with myriads of intelligent beings, formed for endless progression in perfection and felicity.
Σελίδα 247 - That great chain of causes, which, linking one to another, even to the throne of God himself, can never be unravelled by any industry of ours.
Σελίδα 411 - And are not the sun and fixed stars great earths vehemently hot, whose heat is conserved by the greatness of the bodies and the mutual action and reaction between them, and 'the light which they emit; and whose parts are kept from fuming away, not only by their fixity, but also by the vast weight and density of the atmospheres incumbent upon them and very strongly compressing them, and condensing the vapors and exhalations which arise from them?