The Mathematical and Philosophical Works of the Right Rev. John Wilkins ...: To which is Prefixed the Author's Life and an Account of His Works, Volum 1C. Whittingham, 1802 |
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Side 18
... adversary . These arguments which I have set down are the chiefest which I have met with against this subject ; and yet the best of these hath not force enough to endanger the truth that I have delivered . Unto the two first it may be ...
... adversary . These arguments which I have set down are the chiefest which I have met with against this subject ; and yet the best of these hath not force enough to endanger the truth that I have delivered . Unto the two first it may be ...
Side 31
... adversaries themselves do grant , that culinary and elemen- tary fire are of different kinds . The one does burn , shine , and corrupt its subject ; the other disagrees from it in all these respects . And therefore from the ascent of ...
... adversaries themselves do grant , that culinary and elemen- tary fire are of different kinds . The one does burn , shine , and corrupt its subject ; the other disagrees from it in all these respects . And therefore from the ascent of ...
Side 39
... adversaries , and they are the very words of noble Tycho ; Si lana genuino gauderet lumine , utique cum in umbra terræ esset , illud non amit- teret , sed eo evidentius exerceret ; omne enim lumen in tene- bris , plus splendet cum alio ...
... adversaries , and they are the very words of noble Tycho ; Si lana genuino gauderet lumine , utique cum in umbra terræ esset , illud non amit- teret , sed eo evidentius exerceret ; omne enim lumen in tene- bris , plus splendet cum alio ...
Side 91
... adversary , Cæsar la Galla , who doth most directly oppose that truth which is here to be proved . He endeavouring to confirm the incorrupti- bility of the heavens , and being there to satisfy the argu- ment which is taken from these ...
... adversary , Cæsar la Galla , who doth most directly oppose that truth which is here to be proved . He endeavouring to confirm the incorrupti- bility of the heavens , and being there to satisfy the argu- ment which is taken from these ...
Side 134
... adversaries * , they would not have shewed more violence in opposing the persons against whom they write , than strength in confuting the cause . It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes , that men should give soft words ...
... adversaries * , they would not have shewed more violence in opposing the persons against whom they write , than strength in confuting the cause . It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes , that men should give soft words ...
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Side 167 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Side 154 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
Side 177 - They go up by the mountains; They go down by the valleys Unto the place which thou hast founded for them. Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; That they turn not again to cover the earth.
Side 172 - And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood ; and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig-tree casteth her untimely figs when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
Side 141 - I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear : But now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Side 121 - And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shall thou eat all the days of thy life...
Side 177 - Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb...
Side 127 - He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, And hangeth the earth upon nothing. He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds ; And the cloud is not rent under them.
Side 168 - If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth; and if a tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there shall it be.
Side 109 - That it is possible for some of our posterity to find out a conveyance to this other world, and if there be inhabitants there, to have commerce with them.