Edinburgh Magazine: Or Literary Miscellany, Band 19J. Sibbald, 1802 |
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... causes why the fyftem of Copernicus had fo few abettors about the middle of the feventeenth century The opinion of philofophers concern- ing the cause of the celeftial motions was equally obfcure and u fatisfacto- ry . Defcartes had ...
... causes why the fyftem of Copernicus had fo few abettors about the middle of the feventeenth century The opinion of philofophers concern- ing the cause of the celeftial motions was equally obfcure and u fatisfacto- ry . Defcartes had ...
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... cause of colours , and the different refrangi- bility of the rays of light , formed a new epoch in optical fcience . Be- fore that time , philofophers were on : ly acquainted with fome of the chief properties of light ; and the artifts ...
... cause of colours , and the different refrangi- bility of the rays of light , formed a new epoch in optical fcience . Be- fore that time , philofophers were on : ly acquainted with fome of the chief properties of light ; and the artifts ...
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... cause exifting , adequate to produce fo great an effect , as a total fubversion of our Saviour's ministry so early , had both bishops and priests been fo wicked as attempt it . Indeed it is incredible that clergymen , who were daily in ...
... cause exifting , adequate to produce fo great an effect , as a total fubversion of our Saviour's ministry so early , had both bishops and priests been fo wicked as attempt it . Indeed it is incredible that clergymen , who were daily in ...
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... CAUSES OR SYMPTOMS OF ITS VARIABLE EMIS- SION OF LIGHT AND HEAT , & c . & c . TH By William Herschel , L. L. D. F. R. S. From Philosophical Transallions of the Royal Society of London , for 1801 . HE influence of this eminent well ...
... CAUSES OR SYMPTOMS OF ITS VARIABLE EMIS- SION OF LIGHT AND HEAT , & c . & c . TH By William Herschel , L. L. D. F. R. S. From Philosophical Transallions of the Royal Society of London , for 1801 . HE influence of this eminent well ...
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... cause of our deferring till now , making any remarks upon this curious fubject , yet the few ob- fervations which can , even at prefent , be offered , are extremely trifling and imperfect . This planet was difcovered on the AT HALLEY in ...
... cause of our deferring till now , making any remarks upon this curious fubject , yet the few ob- fervations which can , even at prefent , be offered , are extremely trifling and imperfect . This planet was difcovered on the AT HALLEY in ...
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Seite 345 - This whole fabric hung, as it were, by a large tree, which reclined from the one end, all along the roof to the other, and which gave it the name of the Cage ; and by chance there happened to be two stones at a small distance from one another, in the side next the precipice, resembling the pillars of a chimney, where the fire was placed.
Seite 469 - Hidalgo, and the said article and the thirty-third article of the treaty of Amity, commerce, and navigation...
Seite 134 - I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of Romance might have delighted to feign. I had indeed no trees to whisper over my head, but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude.
Seite 345 - Highness prevented him, and kissed him as if he had been an equal, saying : " I am sorry, Cluny, you and your regiment were not at Culloden : I did not hear, till very lately, that you were so near us that day.
Seite 254 - ... is sufficiently obvious. By carrying on a connected series of important events, and indicating their relations to the contemporary history of mankind, a meridian is traced (if I may use the expression) through the vast and crowded map of time ; and a line of reference is exhibited to the mind, for marking the bearings of those subordinate occurrences, in the multiplicity of which its powers would have been lost.
Seite 112 - Like most poor men, he got a wife first, and had to get household stuff afterward. It took him some time to get out of readyfurnished lodgings.
Seite 10 - Andero' ; a piece which justifies the observation made by one of his editors, that he attained, by a felicity like instinct, a style which perhaps will never be obsolete; and that, 'were we to judge only by the wording, we could not know what was wrote at twenty, and what at fourscore.
Seite 102 - B. the eldest, a boy of ten years old, stepped forth and told me how many friends and admirers I had in this country, and that he reckoned himself in the number, from the pleasure he had received from the reading of many passages in my works. When he had finished, his brother, the Count de P., who is two years younger, began his discourse, and informed me, that I had been long...
Seite 316 - Ireland, as they tender the favour of Almighty God, and would avoid his wrath and indignation and upon pain of such punishment as may be justly inflicted on all such as contemn and neglect the performance of so religious and necessary a duty...
Seite 232 - Two are better than one ; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.