The Inverted Scheme of Copernicus: With the Pretended Experiments Upon which His Followers Have Founded Their Hypotheses of Matter and Motion ... Contrasted with the Formation of One World by Divine Power, as it is Revealed in the History of Creation ... to which is Prefixed a Letter to Sir Humphry Davy ...J. Lang, 1822 - 216 páginas |
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... creator of the universe ; the mover of the heavens ; as displaying His mighty power in the elements ; as ALL in ALL ; to what shall we look for evidence of His existence and omnipresence ? It was by His power manifested in the elements ...
... creator of the universe ; the mover of the heavens ; as displaying His mighty power in the elements ; as ALL in ALL ; to what shall we look for evidence of His existence and omnipresence ? It was by His power manifested in the elements ...
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... Creator , would scarcely have been coun- tenanced under the heathenish institutions of ancient Greece and Rome . This , however , was done in France ; received into the univer- sities of other christian countries , and La Place was ...
... Creator , would scarcely have been coun- tenanced under the heathenish institutions of ancient Greece and Rome . This , however , was done in France ; received into the univer- sities of other christian countries , and La Place was ...
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... Creator , who on a general sur- vey of his own stupendous works , " saw that every thing he had made was very good ; " Newton , in like manner , on viewing his work , though his system directly contradicted the Divine one ...
... Creator , who on a general sur- vey of his own stupendous works , " saw that every thing he had made was very good ; " Newton , in like manner , on viewing his work , though his system directly contradicted the Divine one ...
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... Creator , or , which would have been virtually the same , -to the first chapter of Genesis . But this spirit , it seems , he cannot fully unveil to us in a few words for want of experiments ! Let us , then , see if we cannot explain all ...
... Creator , or , which would have been virtually the same , -to the first chapter of Genesis . But this spirit , it seems , he cannot fully unveil to us in a few words for want of experiments ! Let us , then , see if we cannot explain all ...
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... Creator ? And is not that life the cause of all sensation , motion and will ? When that life leaves the body ; do not sensation , mo- tion and will cease ? Can any thing more be said , or understood , of the matter ? What then become of ...
... Creator ? And is not that life the cause of all sensation , motion and will ? When that life leaves the body ; do not sensation , mo- tion and will cease ? Can any thing more be said , or understood , of the matter ? What then become of ...
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Página 38 - ... these primitive particles being solids are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces, no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation.
Página 93 - And I will establish my covenant with you ; neither shall all flesh be cut off" any more by the waters of a flood ; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Página 2 - The secret things belong unto the LORD our God : but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Página 16 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Página 38 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...
Página 38 - ... even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces ; no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one, in the first creation. While the particles continue entire, they may compose bodies of one and the same nature and texture in all ages ; but should they wear away or break in pieces, the nature of things depending on them would be changed.
Página 119 - And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
Página 76 - Or who shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? When I made the cloud the garment thereof, And thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, And brake up for it my decreed place, And set bars and doors, And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: And here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Página 155 - For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet...