The Present State of the Republick of Letters. ...William and John Innys, at the West End of St. Paul's., 1732 |
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... those , who maintain the Doctrine of Attraction or Gravitation , own they know not how this Force is exerted , v . P. 239 . WE here once for all beg pardon of Mr. Dugdale for not copying his Tranflations ; which might have been more ...
... those , who maintain the Doctrine of Attraction or Gravitation , own they know not how this Force is exerted , v . P. 239 . WE here once for all beg pardon of Mr. Dugdale for not copying his Tranflations ; which might have been more ...
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... Those Countries , which abound moft with Sulphur and Nitre , are much more fubject to Earthquakes ; for where there are fuch Mines , they must send up Exhalations , which meeting with fubterra- neous Coverns , muft ftick to the Arches ...
... Those Countries , which abound moft with Sulphur and Nitre , are much more fubject to Earthquakes ; for where there are fuch Mines , they must send up Exhalations , which meeting with fubterra- neous Coverns , muft ftick to the Arches ...
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... those Mountains . But he is fo cau- tious of admitting any thing of this Nature , that he declares he does not give this as a Cer- tainty , but looks on all fuch Accounts as mere poetical Fictions , as in all probability they are . CHAP ...
... those Mountains . But he is fo cau- tious of admitting any thing of this Nature , that he declares he does not give this as a Cer- tainty , but looks on all fuch Accounts as mere poetical Fictions , as in all probability they are . CHAP ...
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... those of Pyrmont , Spaw and Tunbridge , yet if they are rightly confidered , it is their fmart brisk Tafte , that mifleads us to think them acid , or truly four . Thus Cyder , and foft Ale , when bottled , will give the like Pungency to ...
... those of Pyrmont , Spaw and Tunbridge , yet if they are rightly confidered , it is their fmart brisk Tafte , that mifleads us to think them acid , or truly four . Thus Cyder , and foft Ale , when bottled , will give the like Pungency to ...
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... those that are compounded with them , by fuch as are found by Experience to attract their Particles . Now , fays this Gentleman , when thefe Parti- cles are fo minute and fubtile , as to intrude into the Pores of the Wood with the Water ...
... those that are compounded with them , by fuch as are found by Experience to attract their Particles . Now , fays this Gentleman , when thefe Parti- cles are fo minute and fubtile , as to intrude into the Pores of the Wood with the Water ...
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Page 166 - And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; and in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
Page 165 - And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament : and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.
Page 308 - Haemastatics, or an account of some hydraulic and hydrostatical experiments made on the blood and blood vessels of animals. Also an account of some experiments on stones in the kidneys and bladder, with an enquiry into the nature of those anomalous concretions. To which is added an appendix containing observations and experiments relating to several subjects in the first volume. The greatest part of which were read at several meetings of the Royal Society.
Page 343 - Organum," the design of which was, to execute the second part of the " Instauration," by advancing a more perfect method of using the rational faculty than men were before acquainted with, in order to raise and improve the understanding, as far as its present imperfect state admits, and enable it to conquer and interpret the difficulties and obscurities of nature. This work his majesty received as graciously as he could wish, and wrote, him a letter upon it, which certainly does honour to both their...
Page 64 - Most of the letters have four forms in writing, depending on whether they occur at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end of a word or whether they stand separately.
Page 17 - Mountains j each of which far furpafi the ufual height to which the Aqueous Vapours of themfelves afcend, and on the tops of which the Air is fo cold and rarificd, as to retain but a fmall part of thofe Vapours, that fhall be brought thither by Winds.
Page 168 - A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.
Page 124 - In the eighth century, by rooting up and subduing the Exarchate of Ravenna, the kingdom of the Lombards, and the Senate and Dukedom of Rome, he acquired Peter's Patrimony out of their dominions; and thereby rose up as a temporal Prince or King, or horn of the fourth Beast.
Page 297 - Praife both when the firft Evening was and the firft Morning. AND GOD faid, let there be a Firmament in the Midft of the Waters, and let it divide the Waters from the Waters.
Page 2 - Paganifm , or the Religion of the prefent Romans, derived from that of their HeathenAnceftors.