The Book of NatureJ. & J. Harper, 1831 - 467 páginas |
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... sufficient to prove its evil bearing , if strictly and literally interpreted . The following distich , for example , beautiful as it is in itself , discloses the very quintescence of Spinosism : * - All are but parts of one stupendous ...
... sufficient to prove its evil bearing , if strictly and literally interpreted . The following distich , for example , beautiful as it is in itself , discloses the very quintescence of Spinosism : * - All are but parts of one stupendous ...
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... sufficient to show us that matter under every visible form and modification , when regarded in its general mass , is perpetually changing ; alternately living , dying , and reviving ; decomposing into elements that elude our pursuit ...
... sufficient to show us that matter under every visible form and modification , when regarded in its general mass , is perpetually changing ; alternately living , dying , and reviving ; decomposing into elements that elude our pursuit ...
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... sufficiently cool to enable mankind to see , as every one sees at present , that the difficulties chargeable upon the doctrine of an infinite divisibility of matter are not touched by the present theory , and remain in as full force as ...
... sufficiently cool to enable mankind to see , as every one sees at present , that the difficulties chargeable upon the doctrine of an infinite divisibility of matter are not touched by the present theory , and remain in as full force as ...
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... sufficiently prove that phi- losophy has neither lived nor laboured in vain . Although we have not been able to ... sufficiently traced , and sufficiently exposed , by Diogenes Laertius , Gassendi , Du Rondelle , and other distin ...
... sufficiently prove that phi- losophy has neither lived nor laboured in vain . Although we have not been able to ... sufficiently traced , and sufficiently exposed , by Diogenes Laertius , Gassendi , Du Rondelle , and other distin ...
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... sufficient to cause the mass ejected to proceed at the rate of about 8,200 feet in the first second of time , * and in a line passing through the moon and the earth , such effect would necessarily be produced ; since , in this case ...
... sufficient to cause the mass ejected to proceed at the rate of about 8,200 feet in the first second of time , * and in a line passing through the moon and the earth , such effect would necessarily be produced ; since , in this case ...
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