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Σελίδα 33
... fire is kept burning during the night , to serve as a beacon to vessels . See BEACON . The Pharos of Alexandria , built in the reign of Pharos , was one of the most celebrated works of antiquity , and from this circumstance the name is ...
... fire is kept burning during the night , to serve as a beacon to vessels . See BEACON . The Pharos of Alexandria , built in the reign of Pharos , was one of the most celebrated works of antiquity , and from this circumstance the name is ...
Σελίδα 36
... fire to consume ; and such events , being familiar , were regarded with indif- ference : -but , when the sky raged in tempest , and was rent by coruscations ; when the ocean heaved and laboured in his pathless bed ; when the lu- -36 ...
... fire to consume ; and such events , being familiar , were regarded with indif- ference : -but , when the sky raged in tempest , and was rent by coruscations ; when the ocean heaved and laboured in his pathless bed ; when the lu- -36 ...
Σελίδα 43
... fire and in the sun , and of the re- flection of light in the earth and in the planets . 3. The qualities of natural bodies which cannot be increased or diminished , and which agree with all bodies in which experiments can be made , are ...
... fire and in the sun , and of the re- flection of light in the earth and in the planets . 3. The qualities of natural bodies which cannot be increased or diminished , and which agree with all bodies in which experiments can be made , are ...
Σελίδα 51
... lived in the wilderness for a space of five or six hundred years . When thus advanced in age , it built itself a pile of sweet woods and aromatic gums , in which , fire being obtained from the sun , and fanned with the wings of the PHO.
... lived in the wilderness for a space of five or six hundred years . When thus advanced in age , it built itself a pile of sweet woods and aromatic gums , in which , fire being obtained from the sun , and fanned with the wings of the PHO.
Σελίδα 54
... fire , and exhale in lucid flames . It is not however to be supposed that the fire is fixed and quiescent in the body of the phos- phorus during this period of its confinement : for that it has a real motion is evident , since , in the ...
... fire , and exhale in lucid flames . It is not however to be supposed that the fire is fixed and quiescent in the body of the phos- phorus during this period of its confinement : for that it has a real motion is evident , since , in the ...
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Σελίδα 40 - By this way of analysis we may proceed from compounds to ingredients; and from motions to the forces producing them; and in general, from effects to their causes; and from particular causes to more general ones, till the argument end in the most general.
Σελίδα 395 - Matthew then, among the Jews, wrote a gospel in their own language, while Peter and Paul were preaching the gospel at Rome, and founding a church there.
Σελίδα 40 - As in mathematics, so in natural philosophy, the investigation of difficult things by the method of analysis, ought ever to precede the method of composition. This analysis consists in making experiments and observations, and in drawing general conclusions from them by induction, and admitting of no objections against the conclusions, but such as are taken from experiments, or other certain truths. For hypotheses are not to be regarded in experimental philosophy.
Σελίδα 394 - Among these were reckoned the four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; the Acts of the Apostles; the Epistles of the apostle Paul...
Σελίδα 239 - The surface of a sphere is equal to four times the area of a circle...
Σελίδα 40 - And although the arguing from experiments and observations by induction be no demonstration of general conclusions, yet it is the best way of arguing which the nature of things admits of, and may be looked upon as so much the stronger, by how much the induction is more general.
Σελίδα 149 - When the whole is put for a part, or a part for the whole; a genus for a species, or a species for a genus; the singular...
Σελίδα 205 - He is likewise to decide the elections of knights of the shire, (subject to the control of the house of commons,) of coroners, and of verderors ; to judge of the qualification of voters, and to return such as he shall determine to be duly elected.
Σελίδα 35 - ... connected together in the fancy, that the idea of the one seems, of its own accord, to call up and introduce that of the other. If the objects are still observed to succeed each other as before, this connection, or, as it has been called, this association of...
Σελίδα 112 - Hottoman to be a rescript, or answer of the sovereign, delivered, by advice of his council, to some college, order, or body of people, upon consulting him on some case of their community. The like answer, given to any particular person, is called simply rescript.