 | Samuel Johnson - English essays - 1767 - 366 pages
...form towards which Nature is continually inclining, like various lines terminating in the center ; or it may be compared to pendulums vibrating in different...directions over one central point ; and as they all crofs the center, tho' only one paffes thro' any other point, fo it will be found that perfect beauty... | |
 | 1787 - 528 pages
...nature. Every f|>ecies of the animal as well аз the vegetable creation may be faid to bave a fixed or determinate form towards which nature is continually inclining, like various lines terminating in the center; or ¡t may be compared to pendulums vibrating in di fièrent directions over one central point;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 430 pages
...nature. . . Every fpecies of the animal as well as tb« vegetable creation may be faid to have a fixed or determinate form towards which nature is continually inclining, like various lines terminating in the center; or it maybe compared to pendulums vibrating in different directions over one central point... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 432 pages
...continually inclining, like various lines terminating in the center; or it may be compared to pendururns vibrating in different directions over one central point ; and as they all crofs the center, though only one paflfes through any other point, fo it will be found that perfect... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 450 pages
...nature. " Every fpecice of the animal as well as the vegetable creation may be faid to have a fixed or determinate form, towards which nature is continually...directions over one central point ; and as they all crofs the centre, though only one paffes through any other point, fo it will be found that perfeft... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 422 pages
...a fixed or determinate form, to which, as to a centre, nature is continually inclining. Or it maybe compared to pendulums vibrating in different directions over one central point ; and as they all crofs the entire, tho'igh only one paffes through any other point ; fo it will be found that perfeS... | |
 | Ebenezer Sibly - Astrology - 1802 - 420 pages
...faid to have a fixed or determinate form, to which, as to a centre, nature is continually inclining. Or it may be compared to pendulums vibrating in different...directions over one central point; and as they all crofs the centre, though only one pafles through any other point, fo it will be found that perfect... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 814 pages
...nature. " Every fpecies of the animal as well as the vegetable creation may be faid to have ia fixed or determinate form, towards which nature is continually...may be compared to pendulums vibrating in different direclions over one central point ; and as they nil crofs the centre, though only one paifes through... | |
 | 1792 - 620 pages
...well as the vegetable creation may be faid to have a fixed or determined form, towards which naturi is continually inclining like various lines terminating...directions over one central point; and as they all crofs the centre, though only one paffes through any other point, fo it will be found that perfect... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...nature. Every species of the animal as well as the vegetable creation may be said to have a fixed or determinate form towards which nature is continually inclining, like various lines terminating hi the centre ; or it may be compared to pendulums vibrating in different directions over one central... | |
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Every species of the animal as well as the vegetable creation, may be said to have a fixed or determinate form, towards which nature is continually inclining, like various lines terminating in the centre... 
