The Christian Philosopher: A Collection of the Best Discoveries in Nature, with Religious ImprovementsPublished at the Middlesex Bookstore. J. M'Kown, printer, 1815 - 324 páginas |
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... surprising generosity to the Academy in New England , has made this dedication more proper to you than any other person . Such a beneficence is an argument how thoroughly you desire that the doctrines of the Gospel , and the purity of ...
... surprising generosity to the Academy in New England , has made this dedication more proper to you than any other person . Such a beneficence is an argument how thoroughly you desire that the doctrines of the Gospel , and the purity of ...
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... surprising , that all the planets ap pear greater in the glass than to the naked eye ; but the fixed stars appear smaller there . The words of the ingenious Dr. Cheyne are worth considering : " Since our fixed stars are exactly of the ...
... surprising , that all the planets ap pear greater in the glass than to the naked eye ; but the fixed stars appear smaller there . The words of the ingenious Dr. Cheyne are worth considering : " Since our fixed stars are exactly of the ...
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... surprising observation of Dr. Cheyne : " Supposing that every fixed star is a sun , and governs in a mundine space , equal to our system , then there must be only as many fixed stars of the first magnitude , as there are systems that ...
... surprising observation of Dr. Cheyne : " Supposing that every fixed star is a sun , and governs in a mundine space , equal to our system , then there must be only as many fixed stars of the first magnitude , as there are systems that ...
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... surprising , that those vapours which are dilated , and go off in the blazes of comets , and are diffused through all the celestial regions , may by little and little , by their own proper gravity , be attracted into the planets , and ...
... surprising , that those vapours which are dilated , and go off in the blazes of comets , and are diffused through all the celestial regions , may by little and little , by their own proper gravity , be attracted into the planets , and ...
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... surprising experiments of producing fire and flame from the bare mix- ture of two liquors actually cold ; a vegetable oil , and a compound spirit of nitre .. The incredible force of burning glasses . A burning concave , made at Lusace ...
... surprising experiments of producing fire and flame from the bare mix- ture of two liquors actually cold ; a vegetable oil , and a compound spirit of nitre .. The incredible force of burning glasses . A burning concave , made at Lusace ...
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The Christian Philosopher: A Collection of the Best Discoveries in Nature ... Cotton Mather Vista de fragmentos - 1968 |
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Página 91 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Página 153 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled : thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created : and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Página 46 - These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Página 105 - The depth saith, It is not in me; and the sea saith, It is not with me. It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
Página 2 - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh day of May, AD 1828, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SG Goodrich, of the said District, has deposited in this office the...
Página 279 - Are not the species of objects seen with both eyes, united where the optic nerves meet, before they come into the brain, the fibres on the right side of both nerves, uniting there, and after union going thence into the brain in the nerve which is on the right side of the head, and the fibres on the left side of both nerves uniting in the same place, and after union going into the brain in the nerve which is on the left side of the head ; and these two nerves meeting in the brain...
Página 3 - God ; while by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection to the gospel of Christ...