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Page xliv
... attracted the notice of those who had attacked his former book . Ross again took the field in his Arcana Microcosmi , & c . and with him a new adversary , Robinson , who published a pedantic book with a suitable title : -Endoxa , or a ...
... attracted the notice of those who had attacked his former book . Ross again took the field in his Arcana Microcosmi , & c . and with him a new adversary , Robinson , who published a pedantic book with a suitable title : -Endoxa , or a ...
Page lii
... attractions ; and his acquaintance with Peter Lambecius , the librarian , gave him special facilities . Through his influence he was allowed the privilege of withdrawing books to his lodgings . He speaks of the Emperor Leopold , as a ...
... attractions ; and his acquaintance with Peter Lambecius , the librarian , gave him special facilities . Through his influence he was allowed the privilege of withdrawing books to his lodgings . He speaks of the Emperor Leopold , as a ...
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... attracted to the subject by some remarkable cases which then occurred : but so powerful was the inclination to negative the question , that accounts of the fall of three similar stones , in as many dis- tricts of country , attested in ...
... attracted to the subject by some remarkable cases which then occurred : but so powerful was the inclination to negative the question , that accounts of the fall of three similar stones , in as many dis- tricts of country , attested in ...
Page 102
... attraction , which is made by a sulphureous effluvium , it will strike fire upon percussion , like many other stones , and , upon collision with steel , actively send forth its sparks , not much inferiorly unto a flint . Now such bodies ...
... attraction , which is made by a sulphureous effluvium , it will strike fire upon percussion , like many other stones , and , upon collision with steel , actively send forth its sparks , not much inferiorly unto a flint . Now such bodies ...
Page 105
... attraction which is inherent in each substance . But all the bodies he subsequently mentions in this paragraph , as far as the cornu ammonis inclusive , although their forms also have undoubtedly arisen from formative principles of ...
... attraction which is inherent in each substance . But all the bodies he subsequently mentions in this paragraph , as far as the cornu ammonis inclusive , although their forms also have undoubtedly arisen from formative principles of ...
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Page xxxviii - Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions, hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Page 348 - And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Page 31 - Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, and saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down ; for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Page 433 - So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.