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 7
... urges for it be not so absurd as the former ; for the apostles , saith he , travelled through the whole habitable world , but they never passed the equinoctial || : and if you answer , that they are said to go through all the earth ...
... urges for it be not so absurd as the former ; for the apostles , saith he , travelled through the whole habitable world , but they never passed the equinoctial || : and if you answer , that they are said to go through all the earth ...
Side 13
... urges in this subject , are very weak , and far enough from having in them any convincing power * . Therefore it is likely that a plurality of worlds doth not contradict any principle of reason . However , I will set down the two chief ...
... urges in this subject , are very weak , and far enough from having in them any convincing power * . Therefore it is likely that a plurality of worlds doth not contradict any principle of reason . However , I will set down the two chief ...
Side 15
... urges for it are confessed by his zealous followers and commentators , to be very slight and frivolous ; and they themselves grant , what I am now to prove , that there is not any evidence in the light of natural reason , which can ...
... urges for it are confessed by his zealous followers and commentators , to be very slight and frivolous ; and they themselves grant , what I am now to prove , that there is not any evidence in the light of natural reason , which can ...
Side 17
... urged by Aquinas : if there be more worlds than one , then they must either be of the same , or of a diverse nature ; but they are not of the same kind ; for this were needless , and would argue an improvi- dence , since one would have ...
... urged by Aquinas : if there be more worlds than one , then they must either be of the same , or of a diverse nature ; but they are not of the same kind ; for this were needless , and would argue an improvi- dence , since one would have ...
Side 25
... urged these authorities to countervail Aristotle and the schoolmen , and the better to make way for a proof of their corrup tibility . The next thing then to be enquired after , is , Whether they be of a corruptible nature ; not whether ...
... urged these authorities to countervail Aristotle and the schoolmen , and the better to make way for a proof of their corrup tibility . The next thing then to be enquired after , is , Whether they be of a corruptible nature ; not whether ...
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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.