Astronomy and General Physics, Considered with Reference to Natural TheologyCarey, Lea & Blanchard, Chestnut Street., 1833 - 284 من الصفحات |
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... of External Nature to the Physical Condi- tion of Man , by JOHN KIDD , M. D. , F. R. S. , Regius Professor of Medicine in the University of Oxford . III . Astronomy and General Physics , considered with reference BRIDGEWATER TREATISES .
... of External Nature to the Physical Condi- tion of Man , by JOHN KIDD , M. D. , F. R. S. , Regius Professor of Medicine in the University of Oxford . III . Astronomy and General Physics , considered with reference BRIDGEWATER TREATISES .
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... otherwise 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 advance ...
... otherwise 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 advance ...
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William Whewell. physical sciences , by showing how admirably every advance in our knowledge of the universe harmo- nizes with the belief of a most wise and good God . To do this effectually may be , I trust , a useful labour . Yet , I ...
William Whewell. physical sciences , by showing how admirably every advance in our knowledge of the universe harmo- nizes with the belief of a most wise and good God . To do this effectually may be , I trust , a useful labour . Yet , I ...
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... PHYSICAL CONDITION OF MAN . THE REV . WILLIAM WHEWELL , M. A. F. R. S. Fellow of Trinity College , Cambridge . ON ASTRONOMY AND GENERAL PHYSICS . SIR CHARLES BELL , K. H. F. R. S , THE HAND : ITS MECHANISM AND VITAL ENDOWMENTS AS ...
... PHYSICAL CONDITION OF MAN . THE REV . WILLIAM WHEWELL , M. A. F. R. S. Fellow of Trinity College , Cambridge . ON ASTRONOMY AND GENERAL PHYSICS . SIR CHARLES BELL , K. H. F. R. S , THE HAND : ITS MECHANISM AND VITAL ENDOWMENTS AS ...
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... Physical World is the Governor of the Moral World . II . On the Vastness of the Universe III . On Man's Place in the Universe IV . On the Impression produced by the Con- templation of Laws of Nature ; or , on the Conviction that Law ...
... Physical World is the Governor of the Moral World . II . On the Vastness of the Universe III . On Man's Place in the Universe IV . On the Impression produced by the Con- templation of Laws of Nature ; or , on the Conviction that Law ...
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الصفحة 272 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
الصفحة 89 - Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand. For Hot, Cold, Moist and Dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mastery...
الصفحة 9 - On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation, illustrating such work by all reasonable arguments ; as, for instance, the variety and formation of God's creatures, in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms ; the effect of digestion, and thereby of conversion ; the construction of the hand of man, and an infinite variety of other arguments ; as also by discoveries, ancient and modern, in arts, sciences, and in the whole extent of literature.
الصفحة 239 - This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont to be called Lord God...
الصفحة 121 - Some of them are accompanied by satellites, or attendant bodies which revolve about them ; and these bodies also have their orbits nearly circular, and nearly in the same plane as the others. Saturn's ring is a solitary example, so far as we know, of such an appendage to a planet. These circular motions of the planets round the sun, and of the satellites round their primary planets, are all kept going by the attraction of the respective central bodies, which restrains the corresponding revolving...
الصفحة 264 - For the handling of final causes, mixed with the rest in physical inquiries, hath intercepted the severe and diligent inquiry of all real and physical causes...
الصفحة 267 - But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this — we can perceive that events are brought about not by insulated interpositions of Divine power, exerted in each particular case, but by the establishment of general laws.
الصفحة 271 - Opticks," he declares the various portions of the world, organic and inorganic, " can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful everliving Agent, who being in all places, is more able by his will to move the bodies within his boundless uniform sensorium, and thereby to form and reform the parts of the universe, than we are by our will to move the parts of our own bodies.
الصفحة 282 - God, or melior natura; which courage is manifestly such as that creature, without that confidence of a better nature than his own, could never attain. So man, when he resteth and assureth himself upon divine protection and favour, gathereth a force and faith which human nature in itself could not obtain.
الصفحة 128 - ... of their attraction beyond calculable limits. Under such circumstances we might have years of unequal length, and seasons of capricious temperature ; planets and moons of portentous size and aspect glaring and disappearing at uncertain intervals ; tides like deluges sweeping over whole continents ; and, perhaps, the collision of two of the planets, and the consequent destruction of all organization on both of them.