 ... it susceptible of lies. He supposes the soul to be of the nature of a piano-cylindrical speculum, or lookingglass ; that the plain side was made by God Almighty, but that the devil afterwards wrought the other side into a cylindrical figure. The plain...  The Miniature - Page 258by Solomon Grildrig - 1805 - 368 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Solomon Grildrig - English essays - 1805 - 412 pages
...cylindrical figure. The plain side represents obje&s just as they are; but the cylindrical lide by tha rules of Catoptrics, -must needs ^represent true objects...the foundation of the malicious lie, • the second • ' { ' ' * - C v • ' of the miraculous. Some have reduced the whole body of lies into two divisions,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 496 pages
...the other side into a cylindrical figure. The plain side represents objects just as they are ; and the cylindrical side, by the rules of catoptrics,...represent true objects false, and false objects true : but the cylindrical side being much the larger surface, takes in a greater compass of visual rays.... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 568 pages
...looking-glass. . . . The plain side represents objects just as they are ; and the cylindrical side, by the rule of catoptrics, must needs represent true objects false, and false objects true. In his second chapter he treats of the nature of political lying ; in the third of the lawfulness of... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 pages
...looking-glass. . . . The plain side represents objects just as they are ; and the cylindrical side, by the rule of catoptrics, must needs represent true objects false, and false objects true. In his second chapter he treats of the nature of political lying ; in the third of the lawfulness of... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 508 pages
...the other side into a cylindrical figure. The plain side represents objects just as they are ; and the cylindrical side, by the rules of catoptrics,...represent true objects false, and false objects true ; but the cylindrical side being much the larger surface, takes in a greater compass of visual rays.... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 508 pages
...the other side into a cylindrical figure. The plain side represents objects just as they are ; and the cylindrical side, by the rules of catoptrics,...represent true objects false, and false objects true ; but the cylindrical side being much the larger surface, takes in a greater compass of visual rays.... | |
 | Arthur Waugh - 1897 - 364 pages
...wrought the other into a cylindrical figure. The plain side represents objects just as they are ; and the cylindrical side, by the rules of catoptrics,...represent true objects false, and false objects true ; but the cylindrical side being much the larger surface, takes in a greater compass of visual rays.... | |
 | 1917 - 266 pages
...the other side into a cylindrical figure. The plain side represents objects just as they are ; and the cylindrical side, by the rules of catoptrics,...represent true objects false and false objects true ; but the cylindrical side, being much the larger surface, takes in a greater compass of visual rays."... | |
 | Hugh Walker - Satire, English - 1925 - 344 pages
...wrought the other side into a cylindrical figure. The plain side represents objects just as they are; and the cylindrical side, by the rules of catoptrics,...represent true objects false, and false objects true; but the cylindrical side, being much the larger surface, takes in a greater compass of visual rays.... | |
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