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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Pagina 13
... Aristotle , that when he saw the books of Moses , he commended them for such a majestic stile as might become a god ; but withal , he censured that manner of writing to be very unfitting for a philosopher ; because there was nothing ...
... Aristotle , that when he saw the books of Moses , he commended them for such a majestic stile as might become a god ; but withal , he censured that manner of writing to be very unfitting for a philosopher ; because there was nothing ...
Pagina 15
... Aristotle was moved to this opinion , that he might thereby take from Alexander the occasion of this fear and discontent ; or else , perhaps , Aristotle himself was as loth to hold the possibility of a world which he could not discover ...
... Aristotle was moved to this opinion , that he might thereby take from Alexander the occasion of this fear and discontent ; or else , perhaps , Aristotle himself was as loth to hold the possibility of a world which he could not discover ...
Pagina 16
... Aristotle , but truth , that should be the rule of our opinions ; and if they be not both found together , we may say to him , as he said to his master Plato * , " Though Plato were his friend , yet he would rather " adhere to truth ...
... Aristotle , but truth , that should be the rule of our opinions ; and if they be not both found together , we may say to him , as he said to his master Plato * , " Though Plato were his friend , yet he would rather " adhere to truth ...
Pagina 17
... Aristotle's works the bounds and limits of all human invention , beyond which there could be no pos- sibility of reaching . Certainly there are yet many things left to discovery , and it cannot be any inconveniency for ùs to maintain a ...
... Aristotle's works the bounds and limits of all human invention , beyond which there could be no pos- sibility of reaching . Certainly there are yet many things left to discovery , and it cannot be any inconveniency for ùs to maintain a ...
Pagina 23
... think that they consist of a fifth substance distinct from the four elements , as Aristotle holds * , and with him * De Cælo , lib . 1. cap . 2 . some of the late schoolmen ; whose subtil brains could THAT THE MOON MAY BE A WORLD . 23.
... think that they consist of a fifth substance distinct from the four elements , as Aristotle holds * , and with him * De Cælo , lib . 1. cap . 2 . some of the late schoolmen ; whose subtil brains could THAT THE MOON MAY BE A WORLD . 23.
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Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 177 - Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.