Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural TheologyH.G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1862 - 328 pages |
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... feel to be honourable ; and on this account alone I should have a peculiar pleasure in dedicating the work to your Lordship . I do so with additional gratification on another account : the Treatise has been written within the walls of ...
... feel to be honourable ; and on this account alone I should have a peculiar pleasure in dedicating the work to your Lordship . I do so with additional gratification on another account : the Treatise has been written within the walls of ...
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... feel most deeply , what I would take this occasion to express , that this , and all that the speculator concerning Natural Theology can do , is utterly insufficient for the great ends of Religion ; namely , for the purpose of reforming ...
... feel most deeply , what I would take this occasion to express , that this , and all that the speculator concerning Natural Theology can do , is utterly insufficient for the great ends of Religion ; namely , for the purpose of reforming ...
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... feel a want of ballast in our movements . It has sometimes been maintained by fanciful theorists that the earth is merely a shell , and that the central parts are hollow . All the reasons we 42 TERRESTRIAL ADAPTATIONS .
... feel a want of ballast in our movements . It has sometimes been maintained by fanciful theorists that the earth is merely a shell , and that the central parts are hollow . All the reasons we 42 TERRESTRIAL ADAPTATIONS .
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... feel their influence on every step we take and on every breath we draw ; and the powers we possess , and the comforts we enjoy would be unprofitable to us , if they had not been prepared with a reference to those as well as to the near ...
... feel their influence on every step we take and on every breath we draw ; and the powers we possess , and the comforts we enjoy would be unprofitable to us , if they had not been prepared with a reference to those as well as to the near ...
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... feel are harmless messengers , travelling so as to bring about the salutary changes of the atmosphere ; even the motion which they communicate to vegetables tends to promote their growth , and is so advantageous , that it has been ...
... feel are harmless messengers , travelling so as to bring about the salutary changes of the atmosphere ; even the motion which they communicate to vegetables tends to promote their growth , and is so advantageous , that it has been ...
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action adaptation adjusted animals appear arrangements astronomers atmosphere bodies Bohn's CHAP character climate conceive condition connexion consequences consider constitution contemplation contrivance creation Creator deductive reasoning degree depend discovery distance Divine earth Edition effects Engravings existence fact faculties final causes fluid force friction globe gravity heat History Illustrations impression intelligence Jupiter kind knowledge Laplace laws of motion laws of nature light luminiferous ether magnitude manner mass material world mathematical matter means mechanical mechanical philosophy mind mode moisture moral natural philosophy Natural Theology Nebular Hypothesis Newton objects observe operation orbit organic organised P. L. SIMMONDS particles peculiar period perpetually phenomena philosophers physical planets portion Portrait present principles produced properties purpose quantity racter reason relations result revolution revolving solar system STANDARD LIBRARY stars suppose surface temperature tendency things tion trace Translated truths universe vapour vegetable velocity vibrations vols WILLIAM HAZLITT WILLIAM WHEWELL
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