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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... quantity of any of them reflected , or all of them in a great measure suffocated . It is not bodies that are coloured , but the light that falls upon them ; and their colours arise from the aptitude in them , to reflect rays of of one ...
... quantity of any of them reflected , or all of them in a great measure suffocated . It is not bodies that are coloured , but the light that falls upon them ; and their colours arise from the aptitude in them , to reflect rays of of one ...
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... quantity of matter just enough to draw round him these massy bodies , and their satellites , who are so various in their quantities , and their distances , and that in regular and uniform orbits . The doctor says well , these are things ...
... quantity of matter just enough to draw round him these massy bodies , and their satellites , who are so various in their quantities , and their distances , and that in regular and uniform orbits . The doctor says well , these are things ...
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... quantity of light which falls upon the hemisphere of the full Moon is rare- fied into a sphere about 288 greater in diameter than the Moon , before it arrive to us . Conse- quently , the moon's light is 104,368 times weaker than the ...
... quantity of light which falls upon the hemisphere of the full Moon is rare- fied into a sphere about 288 greater in diameter than the Moon , before it arrive to us . Conse- quently , the moon's light is 104,368 times weaker than the ...
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... quantity of small spherical drops of falling rain ; with this necessary circumstance , that those rays which fell on the objects , parallel to each other , should not after one reflection , and two refractions , ( to wit , as going into ...
... quantity of small spherical drops of falling rain ; with this necessary circumstance , that those rays which fell on the objects , parallel to each other , should not after one reflection , and two refractions , ( to wit , as going into ...
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... quantity of air , by only having the pressure of the atmosphere taken off in the pneumatic engine , and without increasing the spring with any ad- ventitious heat , would possess above 13,000 times its natural dimensions . Dr. Gregory ...
... quantity of air , by only having the pressure of the atmosphere taken off in the pneumatic engine , and without increasing the spring with any ad- ventitious heat , would possess above 13,000 times its natural dimensions . Dr. Gregory ...
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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...