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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Side 104
... universal havock and confusion . What vaults and caverns under such a continent ! what mon- strous chasms , which could receive a fractured and sinking country for nine hundred miles in extent ! It would really be dreadful , as it has ...
... universal havock and confusion . What vaults and caverns under such a continent ! what mon- strous chasms , which could receive a fractured and sinking country for nine hundred miles in extent ! It would really be dreadful , as it has ...
Side 148
... universal or elementary acid , and of which all the other acids are but modifications . When circulating in animals , it is the animal acid ; when in vegetables , the vegetable acid ; and this latter , modified by the various ...
... universal or elementary acid , and of which all the other acids are but modifications . When circulating in animals , it is the animal acid ; when in vegetables , the vegetable acid ; and this latter , modified by the various ...
Side 149
... universal acid , in various manners , and in various combi- nations , is diffused through nature . It enters into the formation of light and fire ; it is one of the essential and integral parts of air . There is no animal , or vegetable ...
... universal acid , in various manners , and in various combi- nations , is diffused through nature . It enters into the formation of light and fire ; it is one of the essential and integral parts of air . There is no animal , or vegetable ...
Side 171
... universal medium , comes to one and the same point . Our bleak north east winds , which , in their violence are reflected so as to cause pow- erful collisions , never generate heat . But , the sun we feel to be the source of heat , the ...
... universal medium , comes to one and the same point . Our bleak north east winds , which , in their violence are reflected so as to cause pow- erful collisions , never generate heat . But , the sun we feel to be the source of heat , the ...
Side 180
... universal agency of fire on the surface of the earth , but have maintained , that there is the strongest reason to believe the ex- istence of a central mass of internal fire . The doctrine taught by Burnet and others , together with the ...
... universal agency of fire on the surface of the earth , but have maintained , that there is the strongest reason to believe the ex- istence of a central mass of internal fire . The doctrine taught by Burnet and others , together with the ...
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A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps: With Reflections ... Richard Joseph Sulivan Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1794 |
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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.