Essays on Various Subjects, 2Johnson, 1809 |
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... admitted , and ne- cessarily admitted . When Sir Isaac Newton gave the name of gravity to the secret cause which precipitates a stone to the earth , he knew that it was but a name . That a cause was , admitted of no doubt ; but what it ...
... admitted , and ne- cessarily admitted . When Sir Isaac Newton gave the name of gravity to the secret cause which precipitates a stone to the earth , he knew that it was but a name . That a cause was , admitted of no doubt ; but what it ...
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... admitted ; but the inference thence that it must be the identical brain , or any part of the brain , is a step from Earth to Heaven . The soul , what- ever it is , must be somewhere in the human * One of these facts is curious and ...
... admitted ; but the inference thence that it must be the identical brain , or any part of the brain , is a step from Earth to Heaven . The soul , what- ever it is , must be somewhere in the human * One of these facts is curious and ...
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... admission , that Deity himself is this body , adequate to the impulses , which , in the esta- blishment of our system , gave to the orbs therein therein their respective projectile motions , which , in union 64 ON THE IMMATERIALITY OF ...
... admission , that Deity himself is this body , adequate to the impulses , which , in the esta- blishment of our system , gave to the orbs therein therein their respective projectile motions , which , in union 64 ON THE IMMATERIALITY OF ...
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... admission of a cause , commencing the motion , and every moment impressing suc- Gessive increments of motion . What is this powerful agent ? Whence arises this suc- cessive impulse on the falling body , impress- ing on it continually ...
... admission of a cause , commencing the motion , and every moment impressing suc- Gessive increments of motion . What is this powerful agent ? Whence arises this suc- cessive impulse on the falling body , impress- ing on it continually ...
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... admitted , were insufficient to ac- count for the fact , and fairly led to the op- posite conclusion . If it be referred to some subtile fluid , the electric for instance , which in the instant of thought is emitted from the brain to ...
... admitted , were insufficient to ac- count for the fact , and fairly led to the op- posite conclusion . If it be referred to some subtile fluid , the electric for instance , which in the instant of thought is emitted from the brain to ...
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