THE MONTHLY REVIEW OR LITERARY JOURNAL VOL.XI1754 |
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... motions , and direct its pace , till that which was artificial becomes in fome fort natural , and the mind · can go no other . < < 6 C Wrong notions , and falfe principles , begot in this man- ner by authority , may be called properly ...
... motions , and direct its pace , till that which was artificial becomes in fome fort natural , and the mind · can go no other . < < 6 C Wrong notions , and falfe principles , begot in this man- ner by authority , may be called properly ...
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... motions ; and in order to this he has given us a complete feries of obfervations , compared with calculations from the tables , by which means the numbers may generally be corrected with fuch precilion , as not to err a minute in ...
... motions ; and in order to this he has given us a complete feries of obfervations , compared with calculations from the tables , by which means the numbers may generally be corrected with fuch precilion , as not to err a minute in ...
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... motion of the apogee of the moon ; but after making the most tedious calculations , he found , to his fatis- faction , that the theory was entirely fufficient to account for that motion . We would not however be understood to mean that ...
... motion of the apogee of the moon ; but after making the most tedious calculations , he found , to his fatis- faction , that the theory was entirely fufficient to account for that motion . We would not however be understood to mean that ...
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... motions how to folve , How the huge planets round the fun revolve ; Thro ' the vast void to trace the comets line ... motion to itself can give , Leaves not itfelf - it muft for ever live . + In the Review for laft March , p . 218 ...
... motions how to folve , How the huge planets round the fun revolve ; Thro ' the vast void to trace the comets line ... motion to itself can give , Leaves not itfelf - it muft for ever live . + In the Review for laft March , p . 218 ...
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... motion given to it , and under the direction of an univerfal providence . This per- petual flux , and the viciffitudes it creates , in what we call the fortune of men , bring along with them both good and evil . Human life is chequered ...
... motion given to it , and under the direction of an univerfal providence . This per- petual flux , and the viciffitudes it creates , in what we call the fortune of men , bring along with them both good and evil . Human life is chequered ...
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