A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps: With Reflections on Atheistical Philosophy, Now Exemplified in France, Volum 1T. Becket, 1794 |
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... land , through the years 1790 and 1791. Their principal object was , to expose the fallacy of the atheistical philosophy , and to shew how little support its advocates could derive , either from physics , when well un- derstood , or ...
... land , through the years 1790 and 1791. Their principal object was , to expose the fallacy of the atheistical philosophy , and to shew how little support its advocates could derive , either from physics , when well un- derstood , or ...
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... and by gravity .--- Phænomena of freezing and thawing --- effect of snow on land --- Different kinds of waters --- how waters be- come medicinal . LETTER LETTER XXVII . Tides --- facts relating to them --- xviii CONTENTS .
... and by gravity .--- Phænomena of freezing and thawing --- effect of snow on land --- Different kinds of waters --- how waters be- come medicinal . LETTER LETTER XXVII . Tides --- facts relating to them --- xviii CONTENTS .
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... land . Thus , says Burnet , our mountains are not to be supposed to have been laid upon the earth , as tomb - stones upon a grave , or to stand as statues do upon pedestals . They are one continued substance with the body of the earth ...
... land . Thus , says Burnet , our mountains are not to be supposed to have been laid upon the earth , as tomb - stones upon a grave , or to stand as statues do upon pedestals . They are one continued substance with the body of the earth ...
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... land thus formed , was light , fat , and adapted to cherish the ten- derness of the original germs . The surface of the earth was level and uniform , without moun- tains , seas , or other inequalities . In this state it remained about ...
... land thus formed , was light , fat , and adapted to cherish the ten- derness of the original germs . The surface of the earth was level and uniform , without moun- tains , seas , or other inequalities . In this state it remained about ...
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... land and water distinctly , was some time after its publication boldly opposed by Mons . Raspe , the editor of the posthumous works of Leibnitz . M. Raspe held it to be absurd , to suppose the existence of such immense caverns as would ...
... land and water distinctly , was some time after its publication boldly opposed by Mons . Raspe , the editor of the posthumous works of Leibnitz . M. Raspe held it to be absurd , to suppose the existence of such immense caverns as would ...
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Side 50 - And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood ; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Side 47 - Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
Side 108 - While the particles continue entire, they may compose bodies of one and the same nature and texture in all ages ; but should they wear away or break in pieces, the nature of things depending on them would be changed.
Side 107 - Space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them ; and that these primitive Particles being Solids, are incomparably harder than any porous Bodies compounded of them ; even so very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces ; no ordinary Power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first Creation.
Side 108 - But should they wear away, or break in pieces, the Nature of Things depending on them, would be changed. Water and Earth, composed of old worn Particles and Fragments of Particles, would not be of the same Nature and Texture now, with Water and Earth composed of entire 817 Particles in the Beginning. And therefore, that Nature may be lasting, the Changes of corporeal Things are to be placed only in the various Separations and new Associations and Motions of these permanent Particles...
Side 107 - It seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable moveable particles ; of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions to space, as most conduced to the end for which He formed them; and that these primitive particles, being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them; even so very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces; no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself...
Side 114 - Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues, or Forces, by which they act at a distance, not only upon the Rays of Light for reflecting, refracting, and inflecting them, but also upon one another for producing a great Part of the Phenomena of Nature?
Side 108 - Particles, would not be of the same Nature and Texture now, with Water and Earth composed of entire Particles in the Beginning. And therefore, that Nature may be lasting, the Changes of corporeal Things are to be placed only in the various Separations and new Associations and Motions of these permanent Particles; compound Bodies being apt to break, not in the midst of solid Particles, but where those Particles are laid together, and only touch in a few Points.
Side 313 - But such a personification of "force" is a remnant of barbaric thought, in no wise sanctioned by physical science. When astronomy speaks of two planets as attracting each other with a " force " which varies directly as their masses and inversely as the squares of their distances...
Side 115 - Forms of Things, but as general Laws of Nature, by which the Things themselves are form'd; their Truth appearing to us by Phaenomena, though their Causes be not yet discover'd.