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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... particle on ; and it was his opinion , that an honest man should not be fond of naming himself , or of using the word I , and me ; that christian piety will annihilate our I , and me , and human civility will suppress it , and conceal ...
... particle on ; and it was his opinion , that an honest man should not be fond of naming himself , or of using the word I , and me ; that christian piety will annihilate our I , and me , and human civility will suppress it , and conceal ...
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... particles , actually emitted from the lucent body , and re- fracted by some attraction , by which light , and the bodies on which it falls , do mutually act upon one another . It is evident , that as rays pass by the edges of bodies ...
... particles , actually emitted from the lucent body , and re- fracted by some attraction , by which light , and the bodies on which it falls , do mutually act upon one another . It is evident , that as rays pass by the edges of bodies ...
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... particles of light are extremely small , since the Sun for so many ages has been constantly emitting oceans of rays , with- out any very sensible diminution . However it is from hence evident , that the Sun had a beginning ; it could ...
... particles of light are extremely small , since the Sun for so many ages has been constantly emitting oceans of rays , with- out any very sensible diminution . However it is from hence evident , that the Sun had a beginning ; it could ...
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... particles be so small , as generally speaking to be singly insensible : for unless they be ex- ceeding fine , they cannot penetrate readily into the pores of contiguous bodies , and so warm or burn them . The operation of heat upon our ...
... particles be so small , as generally speaking to be singly insensible : for unless they be ex- ceeding fine , they cannot penetrate readily into the pores of contiguous bodies , and so warm or burn them . The operation of heat upon our ...
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... particles . These meeting in the descent , with others of an acido - salinous na- ture , the spirituous parts are apprehended by them , and with those the watery ; and so the whole drop is fixed , but still according to the energy of ...
... particles . These meeting in the descent , with others of an acido - salinous na- ture , the spirituous parts are apprehended by them , and with those the watery ; and so the whole drop is fixed , but still according to the energy of ...
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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...