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... hundred in number . The most considerable are those of the white - penitents of Rome , of which the first was constituted in the year 1264 ; and the black - penitents , among whom the brethren of mercy were instituted in the year 1488 ...
... hundred in number . The most considerable are those of the white - penitents of Rome , of which the first was constituted in the year 1264 ; and the black - penitents , among whom the brethren of mercy were instituted in the year 1488 ...
Σελίδα 10
... hundred pounds , and who on state occasions , attend the person of the king in the quality of guards . They usually bear gilt battle- axes ; but in the event of taking the field , their weapons are curassier - arms , with sword and pis ...
... hundred pounds , and who on state occasions , attend the person of the king in the quality of guards . They usually bear gilt battle- axes ; but in the event of taking the field , their weapons are curassier - arms , with sword and pis ...
Σελίδα 29
... hundred and twenty - five thousand may be covered with an ordinary grain of sand . The matter of perspiration is a fine subtile fluid , for the excretion of which there are no glands ; and which exhales from the body to the quantity of ...
... hundred and twenty - five thousand may be covered with an ordinary grain of sand . The matter of perspiration is a fine subtile fluid , for the excretion of which there are no glands ; and which exhales from the body to the quantity of ...
Σελίδα 32
... hundred weight ; lead , fifteen pounds ; and brass , six pounds . PHENOMENON , a Greek word , signifying an ap- pearance . In philosophy , it is used to denote any appearance in nature , whether according to the usual course of things ...
... hundred weight ; lead , fifteen pounds ; and brass , six pounds . PHENOMENON , a Greek word , signifying an ap- pearance . In philosophy , it is used to denote any appearance in nature , whether according to the usual course of things ...
Σελίδα 35
... hundred and twenty - five thousand may be covered with an ordinary grain of sand . The matter of perspiration is a fine subtile fluid , for the excretion of which there are no glands ; and which exhales from the body to the quantity of ...
... hundred and twenty - five thousand may be covered with an ordinary grain of sand . The matter of perspiration is a fine subtile fluid , for the excretion of which there are no glands ; and which exhales from the body to the quantity of ...
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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.