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... bodies of greater or less dimensions , that is , occupy greater or less spaces ) , by the frigid distinction of act and power ; asserting that single bodies have each a single and pro- per motion , and that if they participate in any ...
... bodies of greater or less dimensions , that is , occupy greater or less spaces ) , by the frigid distinction of act and power ; asserting that single bodies have each a single and pro- per motion , and that if they participate in any ...
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... body , but also in the changes of all other bodies . But it is a far greater evil that they make the quiescent prin- ciples , wherefrom , and not the moving principles , whereby , things are produced , the object of their contemplation ...
... body , but also in the changes of all other bodies . But it is a far greater evil that they make the quiescent prin- ciples , wherefrom , and not the moving principles , whereby , things are produced , the object of their contemplation ...
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... bodies or to the development of their parts : it is only when that motion presents the thing grossly and palpably to ... bodies a desire of mutual contact , so as not to suffer the unity of nature to be quite separated or broken and a ...
... bodies or to the development of their parts : it is only when that motion presents the thing grossly and palpably to ... bodies a desire of mutual contact , so as not to suffer the unity of nature to be quite separated or broken and a ...
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... bodies , so far as this is possible ; to the latter , the discovery , in every case of generation and motion , of the latent process carried on from the manifest efficient and the manifest material to the form which is engendered ; and ...
... bodies , so far as this is possible ; to the latter , the discovery , in every case of generation and motion , of the latent process carried on from the manifest efficient and the manifest material to the form which is engendered ; and ...
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... bodies is of two kinds . The first regards a body as a troop or collection of simple natures . In gold , for example , the following properties meet . It is yellow in colour ; heavy up to a certain weight ; malleable or ductile to a ...
... bodies is of two kinds . The first regards a body as a troop or collection of simple natures . In gold , for example , the following properties meet . It is yellow in colour ; heavy up to a certain weight ; malleable or ductile to a ...
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Página 47 - Human knowledge and human power meet in one, for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed, and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.
Página 93 - Those who have handled sciences have been either men of experiment or men of dogmas. The men of experiment are like the ant ; they only collect and use : the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes a middle course ; it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.
Página 499 - All this is true, See. if time stood still ; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation -, and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new.