Lives of eminent persons; consisting of Galileo, Kepler1833 |
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... Common Pleas , on the ac- cession of James the First Appointed to the King's Bench , seven years after His zealous inquiry relative to the assas sination of Sir Thomas Overbury Resentment of the king against him His consequent disgrace ...
... Common Pleas , on the ac- cession of James the First Appointed to the King's Bench , seven years after His zealous inquiry relative to the assas sination of Sir Thomas Overbury Resentment of the king against him His consequent disgrace ...
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... common to a great number of phe- nomena , it is necessarily perceived that an accurate scrutiny of these latter must precede any safe reasoning with respect to the former . But at the time of which we are speaking , those who adopted ...
... common to a great number of phe- nomena , it is necessarily perceived that an accurate scrutiny of these latter must precede any safe reasoning with respect to the former . But at the time of which we are speaking , those who adopted ...
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... common cause with them , so that it is not un- likely that the hatred which the Jesuits afterwards bore to Galileo on personal considerations , might be enforced by their recollection of the university to which he had belonged ...
... common cause with them , so that it is not un- likely that the hatred which the Jesuits afterwards bore to Galileo on personal considerations , might be enforced by their recollection of the university to which he had belonged ...
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... common use at the beginning of the fourteenth century , and there are several hints , more or less obscure , in many early writers , of the effects which might be expected from a combination of glasses ; but it does not appear with ...
... common use at the beginning of the fourteenth century , and there are several hints , more or less obscure , in many early writers , of the effects which might be expected from a combination of glasses ; but it does not appear with ...
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... common an error appears to me the mistake of those who persist in making their knowledge and apprehension the measure of the apprehension and know- ledge of God ; as if that alone were per- fect , which they understand to be so . But I ...
... common an error appears to me the mistake of those who persist in making their knowledge and apprehension the measure of the apprehension and know- ledge of God ; as if that alone were per- fect , which they understand to be so . But I ...
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Página 17 - That the liberties, franchises, privileges and jurisdictions of Parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England...
Página 2 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Página 8 - How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.
Página 13 - Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter ; when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame ; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances ; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb...
Página 32 - I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there -were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots : and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.
Página 29 - I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this place, might be the name of — MICHAEL ANGELO*.
Página 18 - Labour was the first price, the original purchase money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased; and its value, to those who possess it, and who want to exchange it for some new productions, is precisely equal to the quantity of' labour which it can enable them to purchase or command.
Página 30 - ... the main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses and to deduce causes from effects till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the mechanism of the world, but chiefly to resolve these and such like questions.
Página 36 - Well, well, Master Kingston," quoth he, "I see the matter against me how it is framed; but if I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Página 62 - I held and believed that the sun is the centre of the world and immovable, and that the earth is not the centre and...