A Summons of Wakening; Or, The Evil Tendency and Danger of Speculative Philosophy, Exemplified in Mr. Leslie's Inquiry Into the Nature of Heat, and Mr. Malthus's Essay on Population, and in that Speculative System of Common Law. which is at Present Administered in These Kingdoms: To which is Subjoined, a Prospetus of an Inquiry Into the Origin of Government and Law |
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... become far too voluminous to be inserted in the shape of a note , the Author has been induced , by the advice of some respectable friends , to whose consideration they have been submitted , and in whose good understanding he can with ...
... become far too voluminous to be inserted in the shape of a note , the Author has been induced , by the advice of some respectable friends , to whose consideration they have been submitted , and in whose good understanding he can with ...
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... becomes the proper employment of those ra- tional faculties which the Creator has bestowed upon mankind , to arrange , combine , and unite together , so many of these simple truths or axioms , which have been conveyed to the mind by the ...
... becomes the proper employment of those ra- tional faculties which the Creator has bestowed upon mankind , to arrange , combine , and unite together , so many of these simple truths or axioms , which have been conveyed to the mind by the ...
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... become the sub- ject of our observations . That Mr. Leslie did set out in this Inquiry , with a preconceived speculative opinion of his own respecting the nature of heat , he himself tells us very plainly in the preface to his book ...
... become the sub- ject of our observations . That Mr. Leslie did set out in this Inquiry , with a preconceived speculative opinion of his own respecting the nature of heat , he himself tells us very plainly in the preface to his book ...
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... becomes oblique . Between that force and the " angle of obliquity some relation must subsist ; which is the next object of inquiry . " Dr. Speculative now proceeds to He says , EXPERIMENT XXI . " Provide a tin screen composed of " two ...
... becomes oblique . Between that force and the " angle of obliquity some relation must subsist ; which is the next object of inquiry . " Dr. Speculative now proceeds to He says , EXPERIMENT XXI . " Provide a tin screen composed of " two ...
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... becomes indeed < 6 very considerable , a small diminution of effect , " seldom amounting to the tenth or twentieth part begins to be perceived . " .. Does not our friend Truth here confirm what he told us in the preface to the 20th ...
... becomes indeed < 6 very considerable , a small diminution of effect , " seldom amounting to the tenth or twentieth part begins to be perceived . " .. Does not our friend Truth here confirm what he told us in the preface to the 20th ...
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Page 91 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you ; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
Page 90 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 92 - And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet Ťof old fruit until the ninth year until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.
Page 91 - If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them ; then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
Page 92 - Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; but in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD : thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
Page 159 - ... For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it...
Page 92 - And I have led you forty years in the wilderness : your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
Page 159 - It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it ? neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? but the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Page 106 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
Page 162 - One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.