Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory, and N. Bosworth assisted by other gentlemen of eminence, Volume 81813 |
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... king James I .; after which , when king Charles I. had , during his northern expeditions , issued commissions of lieutenancy , and exerted some military powers , which having been long ex- ercised , were thought to belong to the crown ...
... king James I .; after which , when king Charles I. had , during his northern expeditions , issued commissions of lieutenancy , and exerted some military powers , which having been long ex- ercised , were thought to belong to the crown ...
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... king of Spain , Don Lewis de Velasco , viceroy of Mexico , sent Michael Lopez de la Gaspes , with a fleet and force suf- ficient to make a conquest of these islands , which he afterwards named the Philippines , in honour of the above ...
... king of Spain , Don Lewis de Velasco , viceroy of Mexico , sent Michael Lopez de la Gaspes , with a fleet and force suf- ficient to make a conquest of these islands , which he afterwards named the Philippines , in honour of the above ...
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... king of Crete , son of Jupiter and Europa , who give laws to his subjects , B.C. 1406 , which still remained in full force in the are of the philosopher Plato . His justice and aderation procured him the appellation of the favourite of ...
... king of Crete , son of Jupiter and Europa , who give laws to his subjects , B.C. 1406 , which still remained in full force in the are of the philosopher Plato . His justice and aderation procured him the appellation of the favourite of ...
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... king made use of the same disguise to explore the camp of our king Athelstan . The minstrel was , therefore , a privileged character with both these people : and so late as the reign of Edward II . the minstrels were easily admitted ...
... king made use of the same disguise to explore the camp of our king Athelstan . The minstrel was , therefore , a privileged character with both these people : and so late as the reign of Edward II . the minstrels were easily admitted ...
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... king of the country . Orchomenos , the son of Minyas , gave his name to the capital of the country , and the inhabitants still retained their original appellation in contradiction to the Orchomenians of Arcadia . MINYAS , a king of ...
... king of the country . Orchomenos , the son of Minyas , gave his name to the capital of the country , and the inhabitants still retained their original appellation in contradiction to the Orchomenians of Arcadia . MINYAS , a king of ...
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Page x - Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
Page x - Liberty and necessity are consistent: as in the water that hath not only liberty, but a necessity of descending by the channel; so likewise in the actions which men voluntarily do, which, because they proceed from their will, proceed from liberty, and yet because every act of man's will and every desire and inclination proceedeth from some cause, and that from another cause, in a continual chain (whose first link is in the hand of God, the first of all causes), proceed from necessity.
Page 18 - That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish.
Page x - The motions of bodies included in a given space are the same among themselves, whether that space is at rest, or moves uniformly forward in a right line without any circular motion.
Page 18 - When any one tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this person should either deceive or be deceived, or that the fact which lie relates should really have happened.
Page x - An impressed force is an action exerted upon a body, in order to change its state, either of rest or of uniform motion in a right line.
Page x - Absolute, true, and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably without relation to anything external, and by another name is called duration: relative, apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of duration by the means of motion, which is commonly used instead of true time; such as an hour, a day, a month, a year.