The Mathematical and Philosophical Works of the Right Rev. John Wilkins ...: To which is Prefixed the Author's Life and an Account of His Works, Volume 1C. Whittingham, 1802 |
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... spheres ; but are forced to behold the torments and wailings of those damned souls which are represented to them as they are tortured in the region of the air . But whether this , or whatever else was the meaning of this superstition ...
... spheres ; but are forced to behold the torments and wailings of those damned souls which are represented to them as they are tortured in the region of the air . But whether this , or whatever else was the meaning of this superstition ...
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... spheres . For then we should never discern any star , but by a multitude of refractions , and so consequently we could not possibly find their true situations , either in re- spect of us , or in regard of one another : since whatever ...
... spheres . For then we should never discern any star , but by a multitude of refractions , and so consequently we could not possibly find their true situations , either in re- spect of us , or in regard of one another : since whatever ...
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... sphere of fire either is not there , where it is usually placed in the concavity of his orb , or else that there is no such thing at all ; which is most probable , since there are not any such solid orbs , that by their swift motion ...
... sphere of fire either is not there , where it is usually placed in the concavity of his orb , or else that there is no such thing at all ; which is most probable , since there are not any such solid orbs , that by their swift motion ...
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... spheres ; for if they be not solid , how can their mo- tion cause any such sound as is conceived ? I do the rather meddle with this , because Plutarch speaks as if a man might very conveniently hear that harmony , if he were an ...
... spheres ; for if they be not solid , how can their mo- tion cause any such sound as is conceived ? I do the rather meddle with this , because Plutarch speaks as if a man might very conveniently hear that harmony , if he were an ...
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... sphere of fire ; for then , 1. Why does she not always appear in the full ? since the light is dispersed through all her body ? 2. How can the interposition of her body so darken the sun , or cause such great eclipses as have turned day ...
... sphere of fire ; for then , 1. Why does she not always appear in the full ? since the light is dispersed through all her body ? 2. How can the interposition of her body so darken the sun , or cause such great eclipses as have turned day ...
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Page 167 - 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 154 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
Page 177 - They go up by the mountains; They go down by the valleys Unto the place which thou hast founded for them. Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; That they turn not again to cover the earth.
Page 172 - And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood ; and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig-tree casteth her untimely figs when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
Page 141 - I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear : But now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Page 121 - And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shall thou eat all the days of thy life...
Page 177 - Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb...
Page 127 - He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, And hangeth the earth upon nothing. He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds ; And the cloud is not rent under them.
Page 168 - If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth; and if a tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there shall it be.
Page 109 - That it is possible for some of our posterity to find out a conveyance to this other world, and if there be inhabitants there, to have commerce with them.