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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... hundred years ago , will " rise up in the judgment with this generation , and condemn it . " Reader , even a Mahometan will shew thee one , without any teacher , but reason in a serious view of nature , led on to the acknowledgment of a ...
... hundred years ago , will " rise up in the judgment with this generation , and condemn it . " Reader , even a Mahometan will shew thee one , without any teacher , but reason in a serious view of nature , led on to the acknowledgment of a ...
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... hundred and ninety two . Bayer carries it on to one thousand seven hundred and nine . Travellers to the southward increased the number of their constellations to sixty - two . The number of the stars , brought down into our latest ...
... hundred and ninety two . Bayer carries it on to one thousand seven hundred and nine . Travellers to the southward increased the number of their constellations to sixty - two . The number of the stars , brought down into our latest ...
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... hundred and thirty - three days . In the years 1612 , and 1613 , there appeared a cloudy star in the girdle of Andromeda ; which disappeared until the year 1664 , and then appear- ed again . There is another star , between Eridanus and ...
... hundred and thirty - three days . In the years 1612 , and 1613 , there appeared a cloudy star in the girdle of Andromeda ; which disappeared until the year 1664 , and then appear- ed again . There is another star , between Eridanus and ...
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... hundred and seventy millions , and eight hundred and forty thousand miles . Considering the mean and vile fables of the pagan poetry 28 THE CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHER .
... hundred and seventy millions , and eight hundred and forty thousand miles . Considering the mean and vile fables of the pagan poetry 28 THE CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHER .
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... hundred German miles . The proportion of the body of Saturn to the Earth , is that of 30 to 1. The distance of Saturn from the Sun is about ten times as great as the distance of our Earth from him ; and by conse- quence , that planet ...
... hundred German miles . The proportion of the body of Saturn to the Earth , is that of 30 to 1. The distance of Saturn from the Sun is about ten times as great as the distance of our Earth from him ; and by conse- quence , that planet ...
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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...