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Σελίδα 14
... star or planet in making a revolution round the Sun. PERIOD , in chronology , a revolution of a certain number of years , and another word for a cycle ; a century is a period or cycle . PERIOD , in rhetoric , a speech or series of words ...
... star or planet in making a revolution round the Sun. PERIOD , in chronology , a revolution of a certain number of years , and another word for a cycle ; a century is a period or cycle . PERIOD , in rhetoric , a speech or series of words ...
Σελίδα 51
... stars ; its head finely crested with a beau- tiful plumage ; its neck covered with feathers of a gold colour ; its tail white , and its body purple . Only one phoenix , they said , existed at the same time , and this lived in the ...
... stars ; its head finely crested with a beau- tiful plumage ; its neck covered with feathers of a gold colour ; its tail white , and its body purple . Only one phoenix , they said , existed at the same time , and this lived in the ...
Σελίδα 77
... stars , continually changing their position , have been called by this Greek name , signifying " wanderers . " The planets are usually distinguished into pri- mary and secondary . The primary , called , by way of eminence , planets ...
... stars , continually changing their position , have been called by this Greek name , signifying " wanderers . " The planets are usually distinguished into pri- mary and secondary . The primary , called , by way of eminence , planets ...
Σελίδα 82
... stars ; and offers experiments to prove that it runs the first hundred fathom in a second . - Con- tinuing to move with the same velocity , it will tra- verse three leagues in a minute , one hundred and eighty in an hour , and four ...
... stars ; and offers experiments to prove that it runs the first hundred fathom in a second . - Con- tinuing to move with the same velocity , it will tra- verse three leagues in a minute , one hundred and eighty in an hour , and four ...
Σελίδα 83
... star : that star , meanwhile , is perhaps as distant , or more so , from any other stars , as from the sun . See SOLAR SYSTEM . PLANT , in physiology , a general name for vege tables . A plant is an organical body , destitute of mind ...
... star : that star , meanwhile , is perhaps as distant , or more so , from any other stars , as from the sun . See SOLAR SYSTEM . PLANT , in physiology , a general name for vege tables . A plant is an organical body , destitute of mind ...
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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.