 Islands. Be this as it will, men had sailed round the world, and could destroy cities by an artificial thunder more dreadful than the real one ; but, then, they were not acquainted with the circulation of the blood, the weight of the air, the laws of...  Letters Concerning the English Nation - Page 89by Voltaire - 1733 - 253 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Robertson - English language - 1785 - 206 pages
...the boundlefs ocean, and the ftarry firmament, are beautiful and magnificent objects. The ancients were not acquainted with the circulation of the blood, the weight of the air, the laws of motion, the nature of light, or the number of the planets f. * PIKCIVAI, Moral Tales.— The colour of negroes... | |
 | Voltaire - 1824 - 446 pages
...they knew how to destroy towns with artificial thunder more terrible than the real; but they knew not the circulation of the blood, the weight of the air, the laws of motion and of light, the number of our planets, &c. — while a man who sustained a thesis on the categories... | |
 | Voltaire - English literature - 1894 - 206 pages
...westward as the Caribbean Islands. Be this as it will, men had sailed round the world, and could destroy cities by an artificial thunder more dreadful than...laws of motion, light, the number of our planets, &c. And a man who maintained a thesis on Aristotle's " Categories, " on the universals a parte rei,... | |
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...westward as the Caribbean Island. Be this as it will, men had sailed round the world, and could destroy cities by an artificial thunder more dreadful than...laws of motion, light, the number of our planets, etc. And a man who maintained a thesis on Aristotle's " Categories, " on the universals a parte rei,... | |
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...westward as the Caribbean Island. Be this as it will, men had sailed round the world, and could destroy cities by an artificial thunder more dreadful than...laws of motion, light, the number of our planets, etc. And a man who maintained a thesis on Aristotle's " Categories," on the universals a parte reí,... | |
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...westward as the Caribbean Islands. Be this as it will, men had sailed round the world, and could destroy cities by an artificial thunder more dreadful than...laws of motion, light, the number of our planets, etc. And a man who maintained a thesis from Aristotle's Categories, on the universals a parte rei or... | |
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 | René Descartes, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy - 1910 - 436 pages
...westward as the Caribbean Islands. Be this as it will, men had sailed round the world, and could destroy cities by an artificial thunder more dreadful than...laws of motion, light, the number of our planets, &c. And a man who maintained a thesis on Aristotle's "Categories," on the universals a parte rei, or... | |
 | Literature - 1910 - 470 pages
...westward as the Caribbean Islands. Be this as it will, men had sailed round the world, and could destroy cities by an artificial thunder more dreadful than...laws of motion, light, the number of our planets, &c. And a man who maintained a thesis on Aristotle's " Categories," on the universals a parts rei,... | |
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