Metaphysical Inquiry Into the MethodW. Pickering, 1833 - 222 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 74
... fluid ignotum per ignotius - we only remove the difficulty a step further : what is the force which makes this fluid elastic ? Elasticity itself and all similar powers are involved in the same consi- deration . If we should assert ...
... fluid ignotum per ignotius - we only remove the difficulty a step further : what is the force which makes this fluid elastic ? Elasticity itself and all similar powers are involved in the same consi- deration . If we should assert ...
الصفحة 99
... fluid upon the surfaces of bodies and if he had succeeded , the word Elasticity would , long ere this , have been lost to us as a supposititious cause . With respect to the Qualities of mat- ter , we are led , by all the Analogies of ...
... fluid upon the surfaces of bodies and if he had succeeded , the word Elasticity would , long ere this , have been lost to us as a supposititious cause . With respect to the Qualities of mat- ter , we are led , by all the Analogies of ...
الصفحة 102
... fluid and another , I would venture to suggest , that these two hypotheses may not be altogether and fundamentally op- posed , but are capable of being recon- ciled , at least in part ; and that light has not only a progressive , but a ...
... fluid and another , I would venture to suggest , that these two hypotheses may not be altogether and fundamentally op- posed , but are capable of being recon- ciled , at least in part ; and that light has not only a progressive , but a ...
الصفحة 106
... fluid , and again in greater per- fection in the air , we might with much reason argue , that in such an elastic and subtile fluid as light , both the vibratory and progressive motions might a fortiori be expected . Ten years ago I ...
... fluid , and again in greater per- fection in the air , we might with much reason argue , that in such an elastic and subtile fluid as light , both the vibratory and progressive motions might a fortiori be expected . Ten years ago I ...
الصفحة 110
... fluid light were in a state of very intense agi- tation , as is the air when a bell is struck . Again , as the ear receives successive sounds , and thus we are enabled to com- prehend the syllables which compose a sentence ; so the ...
... fluid light were in a state of very intense agi- tation , as is the air when a bell is struck . Again , as the ear receives successive sounds , and thus we are enabled to com- prehend the syllables which compose a sentence ; so the ...
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الصفحة 140 - It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate upon, and affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must be, if Gravitation in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it.
الصفحة 187 - But farther, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a farther proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion ; for in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause...
الصفحة 1 - Where the car climb'd the Capitol; far and wide Temple and tower went down, nor left a site: Chaos of ruins! who shall trace the void, O'er the dim fragments cast a lunar light, And say, 'here was, or is,
الصفحة 90 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
الصفحة 76 - Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field ; for upon every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.
الصفحة 140 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of...
الصفحة 42 - So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine was sore upon them: and the land became Pharaoh's. 21 And as for the people, ° he removed them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end thereof.
الصفحة 13 - This universe existed only in the first divine idea yet unexpanded, as if involved in darkness, imperceptible, undefinable, undiscoverable by reason, and undiscovered by revelation, as if it were wholly immersed in sleep : then the sole self-existing power, himself undiscerned, but making this world discernible, with five elements and other principles of nature, appeared with undiminished glory, expanding his idea, or dispelling the gloom.
الصفحة 184 - For certain it is that God worketh nothing in nature but by second causes; and if they would have it otherwise believed, it is mere imposture, as it were in favour towards God; and nothing else but to offer to the author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie.
الصفحة 46 - We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that the stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.