An Examination of Dr. Burnet's Theory of the Earth: With Some Remarks on Mr. Whiston's New Theory of the Earth. Also an Examination of the Reflections on the Theory of the Earth, and a Defence of the Remarks on Mr. Whiston's New TheoryH. Clements, 1734 - Всего страниц: 414 |
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... never seen either Sun or Stars , could not have given a worse account of them , than this Phi- lofopher has done ; and yet with an unpar- donable boldness he pretended to tell us , how the World was made , when it is plain he knew not ...
... never seen either Sun or Stars , could not have given a worse account of them , than this Phi- lofopher has done ; and yet with an unpar- donable boldness he pretended to tell us , how the World was made , when it is plain he knew not ...
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... never fo great a velocity against another can be able to drive that other before it , or move it in the leaft , but God takes that occafion to put it in motion . At this rate one need not fear his headpiece tho ' a Bomb were falling ...
... never fo great a velocity against another can be able to drive that other before it , or move it in the leaft , but God takes that occafion to put it in motion . At this rate one need not fear his headpiece tho ' a Bomb were falling ...
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... never fo great a velocity against the former , which is at reft , can never put it in motion . Not- withstanding these and many other of his ab- furd notions , he had a ftrong party of the Phi- lofophers on his fide , and great was the ...
... never fo great a velocity against the former , which is at reft , can never put it in motion . Not- withstanding these and many other of his ab- furd notions , he had a ftrong party of the Phi- lofophers on his fide , and great was the ...
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... never read Des Cartes's principles , for from the beginning to the end of them there is not one demonftration drawn from Geometry , or indeed any demonftration at all . Except Mr. Wotton will fay , that every thing that is illuftrated ...
... never read Des Cartes's principles , for from the beginning to the end of them there is not one demonftration drawn from Geometry , or indeed any demonftration at all . Except Mr. Wotton will fay , that every thing that is illuftrated ...
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... never ei- ther made or created by God in time , but did exist from all eternity , without any change , or alteration , but fuch as happened from pure Mechanical principles , and causes , and the true reason , why there remain no re ...
... never ei- ther made or created by God in time , but did exist from all eternity , without any change , or alteration , but fuch as happened from pure Mechanical principles , and causes , and the true reason , why there remain no re ...
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Стр. 236 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth ; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Стр. 237 - God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged ; the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained ; and the waters returned from off the earth continually : and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
Стр. 236 - And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
Стр. 2 - ... quite another law from this ; for the fquares of their periodical times are always as the cubes of their diftances, and therefore fince they do not obferve that law, which of neceffity they muft, if they fwim in a vortex, it is a demonftration that there are no vortices, in which the planets are carried round the fun.
Стр. 236 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Стр. 31 - ... which being once filled, all the overplus of water that comes thither runs over by the lowest place, and breaking out by the sides of the hills forms single springs...
Стр. 17 - Heaven and the earth ; and the earth was without form, and void, and darknefs was upon the face of the deep ; and the fpirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Стр. 30 - The trees of the Lord are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted; Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house. The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.
Стр. 31 - Valleys between the Ridges of the Hills, and coming to unite, form little Rivulets or Brooks : many of thefe again meeting in one common Valley, and gaining the plain Ground, being grown...