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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... likewise a good modeller in clay and wax . He died in 1747. His son Francis was a good artist , and painted in the same manner as his father . MIEZA , in ancient geography , a town of Macedonia , situated near Stagira . MIGHT . The ...
... likewise a good modeller in clay and wax . He died in 1747. His son Francis was a good artist , and painted in the same manner as his father . MIEZA , in ancient geography , a town of Macedonia , situated near Stagira . MIGHT . The ...
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... likewise continues in Ire- land only during the summer - months , when they are very numerous , as Mr. Smith tells us in the History of Waterford , p . 336. Great numbers appear in Anglesea the latter end of May ; it is supposed that ...
... likewise continues in Ire- land only during the summer - months , when they are very numerous , as Mr. Smith tells us in the History of Waterford , p . 336. Great numbers appear in Anglesea the latter end of May ; it is supposed that ...
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... likewise to be observed , that in all the descriptions of the resurrection and future judgment which are given us at such length in the gospels and epistles , there is no mention made of a first and second resurrection at the distance ...
... likewise to be observed , that in all the descriptions of the resurrection and future judgment which are given us at such length in the gospels and epistles , there is no mention made of a first and second resurrection at the distance ...
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... likewise in possession of particular analyses , made by very good chemists , of a great number of mine- ral waters , and which serve to throw great light on this inquiry , which , with justice , is esteemed one of the most difficult in ...
... likewise in possession of particular analyses , made by very good chemists , of a great number of mine- ral waters , and which serve to throw great light on this inquiry , which , with justice , is esteemed one of the most difficult in ...
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... likewise to be made in the different seasons , different times of the day , and especially in different states of the atmo- sphere ; for a continuance of dry weather , or of abundant rain , has a singular influence on waters . These ...
... likewise to be made in the different seasons , different times of the day , and especially in different states of the atmo- sphere ; for a continuance of dry weather , or of abundant rain , has a singular influence on waters . These ...
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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.