Astronomy and General Physics: Considered with Reference to Natural Theology, Том 3,Часть 4

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H.G. Bohn, 1852 - Всего страниц: 328

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Стр. 225 - Skill of a powerful ever-living Agent, who being in all Places, is more able by his Will to move the Bodies within his boundless uniform Sensorium, and thereby to form and reform the Parts of the Universe, than we are by our Will to move the Parts of our own Bodies.
Стр. 219 - For the handling of final causes, mixed with the rest in physical inquiries, hath intercepted the severe and diligent inquiry of all real and physical causes...
Стр. 198 - This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont to be called Lord God...
Стр. 71 - Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand. For Hot, Cold, Moist and Dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mastery...
Стр. 170 - The earth, the glob'ular body thus covered with life, is not the only globe in the universe. There are, circling about our own sun, six others, so far as we can judge, perfectly "analogous in their nature; besides our moon and other bodies analogous to it. No one can resist the temptation to "conjecture, that these globes, some of them much larger than our own, are not dead, and barren ; that they are, like ours, occupied with organization, life, intelligence. To conjecture, is all that we can do...
Стр. 22 - Sowers in February ; the primrose in the month of March ; the cowslip in April ; the great mass of plants in May and June ; many in July, August, and September ; some, not till the month of October, as the meadow saffron ; and some not till the approach and arrival of winter, as the laurustinus and arbutus.
Стр. 106 - ... and hence it is, that some of these apparent derangements have been going on in the same direction since the beginning of the history of the world. But the restoration is in the sequel as complete as the derangement; and in the meantime the disturbance never attains a sufficient amount seriously to alter the adaptations of the system.* The same examination of the subject by which this is proved, points out also the conditions on which this stability depends. "I have succeeded in demonstrating...
Стр. 112 - And thus might the sun and fixed stars be formed, supposing the matter were of a lucid nature. But how the matter should divide itself into two sorts, and that part of it which is fit to compose a shining body should fall down into one mass and make a sun and the rest which is fit to compose an...
Стр. 224 - ... action, must be present at all times and in all places where the effects of the law occur ; that thus the knowledge and the agency of the Divine Being pervade every portion of the universe, producing all action and passion, all permanence and change.
Стр. 107 - It is further remarkable, that in the newly-discovered planets, of which the orbits are still more eccentric than that of Mercury, the masses are still smaller, so that the same provision is established in this case, also.

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