Essays on Philosophical SubjectsT. Cadell jun. and W. Davies, 1795 - 244 páginas |
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... planet , where nature was governed by laws quite dif- ferent from those which take place here ; as he would be continually obliged to attend to events , which must to him appear in the highest degree jarring , irregular , and difcordant ...
... planet , where nature was governed by laws quite dif- ferent from those which take place here ; as he would be continually obliged to attend to events , which must to him appear in the highest degree jarring , irregular , and difcordant ...
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... Planets , or wandering Stars , and marked with the particular appellations of Sa- turn , Jupiter , Mars , Venus , and Mercury . As , like the Sun and Moon , they seem to accompany the motion of the Fixed Stars from east to weft , but at ...
... Planets , or wandering Stars , and marked with the particular appellations of Sa- turn , Jupiter , Mars , Venus , and Mercury . As , like the Sun and Moon , they seem to accompany the motion of the Fixed Stars from east to weft , but at ...
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... Planets cannot , the greater part of them may , be easily connected by it ; they and all their motions are the leaft remarkable objects in the heavens ; the F greater greater part of mankind take no notice of them at HISTORY OF ...
... Planets cannot , the greater part of them may , be easily connected by it ; they and all their motions are the leaft remarkable objects in the heavens ; the F greater greater part of mankind take no notice of them at HISTORY OF ...
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... Planet is fometimes obferved to advance forward in that eaftward courfe which is peculiar to it- felf , fometimes to retire backwards , and fometimes again to ftand ftill . To fuppofe ' that the Sphere of the Planet fhould by its own ...
... Planet is fometimes obferved to advance forward in that eaftward courfe which is peculiar to it- felf , fometimes to retire backwards , and fometimes again to ftand ftill . To fuppofe ' that the Sphere of the Planet fhould by its own ...
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... Planet . The motions of the Sun and Moon being more regular than those of the Five Planets , by affigning three Spheres to each of them , Eudoxus imagined he could conne & together all the diverfity of movements discoverable in either ...
... Planet . The motions of the Sun and Moon being more regular than those of the Five Planets , by affigning three Spheres to each of them , Eudoxus imagined he could conne & together all the diverfity of movements discoverable in either ...
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aftronomers agreeable almoſt appear Ariftotle becauſe body cafe cauſe compofed compofition confequently confiderable confifted conftitute connected Copernicus correfpondent courſe dance diftinct diſcovered diſtance diſtinguiſh doctrine Earth eaſily Epicycles eſtabliſhed excite exift exiſtence exprefs external faid fame kind fame manner fecond feems fenfation fenfe fenfible fentiments firft firſt fituation folid fome fometimes foon fpecies fpecific Effence ftill fubftance fubject fucceffion fuch fufficient fuperior fuppofed fyftem fyllable greateſt hiftory himſelf Hipparchus imagination imitation inftrumental intereſting itſelf laſt leaſt lefs leſs meaſure moft Moon moſt motion Mufic muft Muſic muſt nature neceffarily neceffary obferved occafion paffion perfon philofophers Planets Plato pleaſe pleaſure poffible prefent principles Ptolemy purpoſe reaſon refpect reprefent reſemblance revolutions revolve ſcarcely ſcience ſeems ſhould ſmall SMITH ſome ſpecies Spheres ſtate ſtill ſuch ſuppoſed ſyſtem tangible objects thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe tion Tycho Brahe underſtanding univerfal uſe verſe viſible whofe whoſe
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Página lxxii - The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit of a remedy. But the mean rapacity, the monopolizing spirit of merchants and manufacturers, who neither are, nor ought to be, the rulers of mankind...
Página 181 - ... a glass of broken jelly where a great variety of surfaces so differently refract the light, that the several distinct pencils of rays cannot be collected by the eye into their proper foci ; wherefore the shape of an object in such a case, cannot be at all discerned, though the colour may...
Página xlvii - Buccleugh under the author's care, and would make it worth his while to accept of that charge. As soon as I heard this, I called on him twice, with a view of talking with him about the matter, and of convincing him of the propriety of sending that young nobleman to...
Página xxiii - When we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall upon the leg or arm of another person, we naturally shrink and draw back our own leg or our own arm; and when it does fall, we feel it in some measure, and are hurt by it as well as the sufferer.
Página xxxvi - may appear very plausible, and be, for a long time, very generally received in the world, and yet have no foundation in nature, nor any sort of resemblance to the truth. But it is otherwise with systems of Moral Philosophy.
Página lxxiii - He will accommodate, as well as he can, his public arrangements to the confirmed habits and prejudices of the people, and will remedy, as well as he can, the inconveniencies which may flow from the want of those regulations which the people are averse to submit to.
Página 13 - There is no break, no stop, no gap, no interval. The ideas excited by so coherent a chain of things seem, as it were, to float through the mind of their own accord, without obliging it to exert itself, or to make any effort in order to pass from one of them to another.
Página 4 - The violent and sudden change produced upon the mind, when an emotion of any kind is brought suddenly upon it, constitutes the whole nature of Surprise.
Página xliii - Languages, which exhibits a very beautiful specimen of theoretical history, applied to a subject equally curious and difficult. The analogy between the train of thinking from which it has taken its...
Página lxxvii - The Political Discourses of Mr. Hume were evidently of greater use to Mr. Smith, than any other book that had appeared prior to his lectures.