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Page xiv
... motions of which the first cause must be super- natural : but life , thus explained , whatever it may have of miracle , will have nothing of fable ; and , therefore , the author undoubtedly had regard to something , by which he imagined ...
... motions of which the first cause must be super- natural : but life , thus explained , whatever it may have of miracle , will have nothing of fable ; and , therefore , the author undoubtedly had regard to something , by which he imagined ...
Page xvii
... motion of the earth but with contempt and ridicule , though the opinion , which admits it , was then growing popular , and a This book , & c . ] See Preface to Pseudodoxia Epidemica , for a detailed account of the replies to it , as ...
... motion of the earth but with contempt and ridicule , though the opinion , which admits it , was then growing popular , and a This book , & c . ] See Preface to Pseudodoxia Epidemica , for a detailed account of the replies to it , as ...
Page lxxii
... motions and disquisitions . Aristotle endeavours to prove that , in all motions of bodies , there is some point quiescent , and very elegantly expounds the fable of Atlas , who stood fixed , and bare up the heavens from falling , to be ...
... motions and disquisitions . Aristotle endeavours to prove that , in all motions of bodies , there is some point quiescent , and very elegantly expounds the fable of Atlas , who stood fixed , and bare up the heavens from falling , to be ...
Page lxxiii
... motion from the epicycle of my own brain . " Again : - " where the scripture is silent , the church is my text ; where that speaks , ' tis but my comment ; where both are silent , " & c . If we add to these passages the following avowal ...
... motion from the epicycle of my own brain . " Again : - " where the scripture is silent , the church is my text ; where that speaks , ' tis but my comment ; where both are silent , " & c . If we add to these passages the following avowal ...
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... motions of its transgression . And therefore so heinous conceptions have risen hereof , that some have seemed more angry therewith than God himself being so exasperated with the offence , as to call in question their salvation , and to ...
... motions of its transgression . And therefore so heinous conceptions have risen hereof , that some have seemed more angry therewith than God himself being so exasperated with the offence , as to call in question their salvation , and to ...
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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.