Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural TheologyH.G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1862 - 328 pages |
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... rule the weather , each of the powers on which such move- ments depend has its peculiar laws of action , and these are as universal and as invariable as the law by which a stone falls to the earth when not supported . The world then is ...
... rule the weather , each of the powers on which such move- ments depend has its peculiar laws of action , and these are as universal and as invariable as the law by which a stone falls to the earth when not supported . The world then is ...
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... rules laid down for his actions ; rules for the conscious actions of a person ; rules which , as a matter of possibility , he may obey or may transgress ; the latter event being combined , not with an impossibility , 1 but with a ...
... rules laid down for his actions ; rules for the conscious actions of a person ; rules which , as a matter of possibility , he may obey or may transgress ; the latter event being combined , not with an impossibility , 1 but with a ...
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... rules for that which things are to do and suffer ; and this by no consciousness or will of theirs . They are rules describing the mode in which things do act ; they are invariably obeyed ; their transgression is not punished , it is ...
... rules for that which things are to do and suffer ; and this by no consciousness or will of theirs . They are rules describing the mode in which things do act ; they are invariably obeyed ; their transgression is not punished , it is ...
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... rule , the other the rate . If either were wrongly taken , the result would be wrong too . CHAP . III . - Mutual Adaptation in the Laws of Nature . To ascertain such laws of nature as we have been describing , is the peculiar business ...
... rule , the other the rate . If either were wrongly taken , the result would be wrong too . CHAP . III . - Mutual Adaptation in the Laws of Nature . To ascertain such laws of nature as we have been describing , is the peculiar business ...
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... rules . In some instances they are periodical , increasing and dirti- nishing alternately , in a perpetual succession of equal intervals of time . This is the case with the heat at the earth's surface , which has a period of 14 ...
... rules . In some instances they are periodical , increasing and dirti- nishing alternately , in a perpetual succession of equal intervals of time . This is the case with the heat at the earth's surface , which has a period of 14 ...
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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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