A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps: With Reflections on Atheistical Philosophy, Now Exemplified in France, Volume 2T. Becket, 1794 - Philosophy |
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... produced by volcanic generation --- a perpetual circulation of elements in nature --- vol- canic eruptions probably conducive to this --- general conclusion concerning the formation of mountains --- enumeration of different lavas ...
... produced by volcanic generation --- a perpetual circulation of elements in nature --- vol- canic eruptions probably conducive to this --- general conclusion concerning the formation of mountains --- enumeration of different lavas ...
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... produced by the phlogiston in the electric matter itself . The substances capable of transmitting the electric fluid , whilst others are impervious to it , we likewise are to suppose , are rendered so by the phlogiston which they ...
... produced by the phlogiston in the electric matter itself . The substances capable of transmitting the electric fluid , whilst others are impervious to it , we likewise are to suppose , are rendered so by the phlogiston which they ...
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... produced , and whence we may deduce their origin . A great variety of hypotheses were formerly framed upon this sub- ject . But that most generally admitted , is the hypothesis of the very learned and sagacious Dr. Halley . That able ...
... produced , and whence we may deduce their origin . A great variety of hypotheses were formerly framed upon this sub- ject . But that most generally admitted , is the hypothesis of the very learned and sagacious Dr. Halley . That able ...
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... produced by electricity , is very true . Doctor Franklin proved particularly , by electricity , the effects of the reversal of the poles of magnets , as caused by lightning . Yet , notwithstanding this , and that there is , it must be ...
... produced by electricity , is very true . Doctor Franklin proved particularly , by electricity , the effects of the reversal of the poles of magnets , as caused by lightning . Yet , notwithstanding this , and that there is , it must be ...
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... produced which had one polarity and not the other . The electric virtue can be retained and confined by certain bodies , as glass , amber , resin , and others called electrics ; but it easily pervades other substances , called ...
... produced which had one polarity and not the other . The electric virtue can be retained and confined by certain bodies , as glass , amber , resin , and others called electrics ; but it easily pervades other substances , called ...
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Page 293 - And God said unto Noah. The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Page 258 - And God made the firmament, and divided the waters, which were under the firmament from the waters, which were above the firmament: and it was so.
Page 282 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
Page 286 - He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
Page 117 - The heat of the metal of the first gun drove so much damp into the mould of the second, which was near it, that as soon as the metal was let into it, it blew up with the greatest violence, tearing up the ground some feet deep, breaking down the furnace, untiling the house, killing many spectators on the spot, with the streams of melted metal, and scalding many others in a most miserable manner.
Page 72 - So it is in contemplation ; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts ; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Page 338 - Sea; this huge mass of stone is softened and dissolved as a tender cloud into rain. Here stood the African mountains, and Atlas with his top above the clouds: there was frozen Caucasus, and Taurus, and Imaus, and the mountains of Asia ; and yonder, towards the north, stood the Riphaean hills, clothed in ice and snow.
Page 399 - Thousands of thousands of suns, multiplied without end, and ranged all around us, at immense distances from each other, attended by ten thousand times ten thousand worlds, all in rapid motion, yet calm, regular, and harmonious, invariably keeping the paths prescribed them ; and these worlds peopled with myriads of intelligent beings, formed for endless progression in perfection and felicity.
Page 247 - That great chain of causes, which, linking one to another, even to the throne of God himself, can never be unravelled by any industry of ours.
Page 411 - And are not the sun and fixed stars great earths vehemently hot, whose heat is conserved by the greatness of the bodies and the mutual action and reaction between them, and 'the light which they emit; and whose parts are kept from fuming away, not only by their fixity, but also by the vast weight and density of the atmospheres incumbent upon them and very strongly compressing them, and condensing the vapors and exhalations which arise from them?