... supposes the soul to be of the nature of a piano-cylindrical speculum, or lookingglass ; that the plain side was made by God Almighty, but that the devil afterwards wrought the other side into a cylindrical figure. The plain side represents objects... The Miniature, a Periodical Paper - Страница 244по Solomon Grildrig - 1805 - 368 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| Solomon Grildrig - 1805 - 390 страници
...cylindrical figure. The plain side represents obje£U cc just as they are; but the cylindrical side by the rules of Catoptrics, must needs represent true objects...be the foundation of the malicious lie., the second of the miraculous. Some have reduced the whole body of lies into two divisions^ which are commonly... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 496 страници
...cylindrical figure. The plain side represents objects just as they are ; and the cylindrical side, by the rules of catoptrics, must needs represent true objects false, and false objects true : but the cylindrical side being much the larger surface, takes in a greater compass of visual rays.... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 568 страници
...looking-glass. . . . The plain side represents objects just as they are ; and the cylindrical side, by the rule of catoptrics, must needs represent true objects false, and false objects true. In his second chapter he treats of the nature of political lying ; in the third of the lawfulness of... | |
| Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 страници
...looking-glass. . . . The plain side represents objects just as they are ; and the cylindrical side, by the rule of catoptrics, must needs represent true objects false, and false objects true. In his second chapter he treats of the nature of political lying ; in the third of the lawfulness of... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 508 страници
...cylindrical figure. The plain side represents objects just as they are ; and the cylindrical side, by the rules of catoptrics, must needs represent true objects false, and false objects true ; but the cylindrical side being much the larger surface, takes in a greater compass of visual rays.... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 508 страници
...cylindrical figure. The plain side represents objects just as they are ; and the cylindrical side, by the rules of catoptrics, must needs represent true objects false, and false objects true ; but the cylindrical side being much the larger surface, takes in a greater compass of visual rays.... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1886 - 402 страници
...cylindrical figure. The plain side represents objects just as they are ; and the cylindrical side, by the rules of catoptrics, must needs represent true objects false, and false objects true; but the cylindrical side being much the larger surface, takes in a greater compass of visual rays.... | |
| Arthur Waugh - 1897 - 364 страници
...cylindrical figure. The plain side represents objects just as they are ; and the cylindrical side, by the rules of catoptrics, must needs represent true objects false, and false objects true ; but the cylindrical side being much the larger surface, takes in a greater compass of visual rays.... | |
| 1917 - 266 страници
...cylindrical figure. The plain side represents objects just as they are ; and the cylindrical side, by the rules of catoptrics, must needs represent true objects false and false objects true ; but the cylindrical side, being much the larger surface, takes in a greater compass of visual rays."... | |
| Hugh Walker - 1925 - 348 страници
...cylindrical figure. The plain side represents objects just as they are; and the cylindrical side, by the rules of catoptrics, must needs represent true objects false, and false objects true; but the cylindrical side, being much the larger surface, takes in a greater compass of visual rays.... | |
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