Morsels of Criticism: Tending to Illustrate Some Few Passages in the Holy Scriptures Upon the Philosophical Principles and an Enlarged View of Things, Volume 3J. Davis ... and sold by J. White, 1800 - Bible |
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... surface whatever , is feen by any eye , merely because , either by emitted , or by reflected light , a ray , or rays of light proceed in every direction , ftraight from it to the eye , where - ever the eye be placed . Therefore every ...
... surface whatever , is feen by any eye , merely because , either by emitted , or by reflected light , a ray , or rays of light proceed in every direction , ftraight from it to the eye , where - ever the eye be placed . Therefore every ...
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... surface . 3. Hence it follows , that the difk of the Sun , or of any planet , or of any appearing body whatsoever , is feen by any eye , at any distance , only becaufe , from every point of its obvious furface , rays do flow , and ...
... surface . 3. Hence it follows , that the difk of the Sun , or of any planet , or of any appearing body whatsoever , is feen by any eye , at any distance , only becaufe , from every point of its obvious furface , rays do flow , and ...
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... surface of the water than it really is . Thus in Fig . 7 , let the circle ( d a ) reprefent the body of the Sun ; and the circle ( SS ) the furrounding sphere of its moft intense light , or the apparent disk . Then , to an eye placed at ...
... surface of the water than it really is . Thus in Fig . 7 , let the circle ( d a ) reprefent the body of the Sun ; and the circle ( SS ) the furrounding sphere of its moft intense light , or the apparent disk . Then , to an eye placed at ...
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... surface of this globe , our habitation , are there , again so feparated , by reflection from the furfaces of different bodies , ( whilft those several bodies abforb the rays of fome colours , and reflect only the others , by means of ...
... surface of this globe , our habitation , are there , again so feparated , by reflection from the furfaces of different bodies , ( whilft those several bodies abforb the rays of fome colours , and reflect only the others , by means of ...
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... surface of the ring , would first be attracted , and drawn to adhere to it ; and the reft , from the centre upwards , would , in a certain degree , follow in order . And as , in truth , each large individual por- tion of the fhell ...
... surface of the ring , would first be attracted , and drawn to adhere to it ; and the reft , from the centre upwards , would , in a certain degree , follow in order . And as , in truth , each large individual por- tion of the fhell ...
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Page 139 - For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
Page 326 - And they went their way, and found the colt tied by the door without in a place where two ways met ; and they loose him.
Page 105 - And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
Page 318 - And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field ; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.
Page 236 - And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night ; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
Page 417 - Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made : thou art God from everlasting, and world without end.
Page 177 - Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week, not only as it refreshes in their minds the notions of religion, but as it puts both the sexes upon appearing in their most agreeable forms and exerting all such qualities as are apt to give them a figure in the eye of the village.
Page 115 - Lot for a possession.' (That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time - and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims - a people great and many and tall, as the Anakims. But the Lord destroyed them before them. And they succeeded them and dwelt in their stead...
Page 105 - And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man. All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
Page 202 - May not the harmony and discord of colours arise from the proportions of the vibrations propagated through the fibres of the optic nerve into the brain, as the harmony and discord of sounds arise from the proportions of the vibrations of the air?