The Christian Philosopher: A Collection of the Best Discoveries in Nature, with Religious ImprovementsPublished at the Middlesex Bookstore. J. M'Kown, printer, 1815 - 324 pages |
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... unto us : and so the nebuloso , in the head of Orion . The prœsepe is a cluster of more than forty Those adjacent unto the sword and girdle stars . of Orion about forescore . Mr. Derham suspects , that 24 THE CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHER . IV.
... unto us : and so the nebuloso , in the head of Orion . The prœsepe is a cluster of more than forty Those adjacent unto the sword and girdle stars . of Orion about forescore . Mr. Derham suspects , that 24 THE CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHER . IV.
Page 47
... gest just after their perihelions , he takes to be a long and very thin smoke , or a mighty train of vapours , which the ignited nucleus or the head of the comet , emits from it . And he easily THE CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHER . 47.
... gest just after their perihelions , he takes to be a long and very thin smoke , or a mighty train of vapours , which the ignited nucleus or the head of the comet , emits from it . And he easily THE CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHER . 47.
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... head of the star . The phenomena of the tails of comets depend upon the motion of their heads , and have their matter supplied from thence . There may arise from the atmosphere of comets , vapours enough to take up such immense spaces ...
... head of the star . The phenomena of the tails of comets depend upon the motion of their heads , and have their matter supplied from thence . There may arise from the atmosphere of comets , vapours enough to take up such immense spaces ...
Page 58
... heads of effects , motions and changes in the world , over which the Moon has a sensible dominion . Our lunatics are not the only instances . Our husbandmen will multi- ply instances upon us , till they make a volume , to which neither ...
... heads of effects , motions and changes in the world , over which the Moon has a sensible dominion . Our lunatics are not the only instances . Our husbandmen will multi- ply instances upon us , till they make a volume , to which neither ...
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... heads those great reservatories of waters ! What hand takes care never to let them fall , but in moderate showers ! " ESSAY XIII . Of the RAINBOW . WE are called upon , to consider the wondrous works of God ; and particularly that ...
... heads those great reservatories of waters ! What hand takes care never to let them fall , but in moderate showers ! " ESSAY XIII . Of the RAINBOW . WE are called upon , to consider the wondrous works of God ; and particularly that ...
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Page 91 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 153 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled : thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created : and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Page 46 - These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Page 105 - The depth saith, It is not in me; and the sea saith, It is not with me. It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
Page 2 - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh day of May, AD 1828, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SG Goodrich, of the said District, has deposited in this office the...
Page 279 - Are not the species of objects seen with both eyes, united where the optic nerves meet, before they come into the brain, the fibres on the right side of both nerves, uniting there, and after union going thence into the brain in the nerve which is on the right side of the head, and the fibres on the left side of both nerves uniting in the same place, and after union going into the brain in the nerve which is on the left side of the head ; and these two nerves meeting in the brain...
Page 3 - God ; while by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection to the gospel of Christ...