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... possess . The subject proposed to me was limited : my pre- scribed object is to lead the friends of religion to look with confidence and pleasure on the progress of the physical sciences , by showing how admirably every.
... possess . The subject proposed to me was limited : my pre- scribed object is to lead the friends of religion to look with confidence and pleasure on the progress of the physical sciences , by showing how admirably every.
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... and Prospects of Science ; or , on the Impossibility of the Progress of our Knowledge ever enabling us to comprehend the Nature of the Deity · 227 AGUILAR ON New YO ASTRONOMY AND 8614 215756 GENERAL PHYSICS vi . CONTENTS .
... and Prospects of Science ; or , on the Impossibility of the Progress of our Knowledge ever enabling us to comprehend the Nature of the Deity · 227 AGUILAR ON New YO ASTRONOMY AND 8614 215756 GENERAL PHYSICS vi . CONTENTS .
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... progress and duration . " In every species , " ( except man , ) says a wri- ter * on animals , " there is a peculiar period of the year in which the reproductive system exercises its energies . And the season of love and the period of ...
... progress and duration . " In every species , " ( except man , ) says a wri- ter * on animals , " there is a peculiar period of the year in which the reproductive system exercises its energies . And the season of love and the period of ...
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... progress . The pistil of the Euphorbia ( which is a little globe or ger- men on a slender stalk ) grows upright at first , and is taller than the stamens : at the period suited to its fecundation , the stalk bends under the weight of ...
... progress . The pistil of the Euphorbia ( which is a little globe or ger- men on a slender stalk ) grows upright at first , and is taller than the stamens : at the period suited to its fecundation , the stalk bends under the weight of ...
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... progress of the arts and advantages of civilization consists almost entirely in the cultivation , the use , the improvement of that which has been received from other countries . This is the case to a much greater extent than might at ...
... progress of the arts and advantages of civilization consists almost entirely in the cultivation , the use , the improvement of that which has been received from other countries . This is the case to a much greater extent than might at ...
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الصفحة 107 - ... are periodical, and included within narrow limits ; so that the planetary system will only oscillate about a mean state, and will never deviate from it, except by a very small quantity. The ellipses of the planets have been and always will be nearly circular. The ecliptic will never coincide with the equator ; and the entire extent of the variation, in its inclination, cannot exceed three degrees.
الصفحة 197 - And though every true Step made in this Philosophy brings us not immediately to the Knowledge of the first Cause, yet it brings us nearer to it, and on that account is to be highly valued.