Conversations on Some Leading Points in Natural Philosophy: Designed to Illustrate the Perfections of the Deity, and to Expand the Youthful MindWestern Sunday School Union, 1828 - 104 страници |
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... bulk , or size . I understand you , Father . I see , that substance of every kind is substance ; and , of course , it must , unless you could destroy it , have a place . Extension , is a third quality of matter ; by B2 OF MATTER .
... bulk , or size . I understand you , Father . I see , that substance of every kind is substance ; and , of course , it must , unless you could destroy it , have a place . Extension , is a third quality of matter ; by B2 OF MATTER .
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... course , would be very im- perfect . I have read the works of an au thor , who says , that he knew a gentleman , who enjoyed good general health , but the two little muscles which lift up the eye - lid had lost their power of action ...
... course , would be very im- perfect . I have read the works of an au thor , who says , that he knew a gentleman , who enjoyed good general health , but the two little muscles which lift up the eye - lid had lost their power of action ...
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... the setting sun ! It does . You said one day , Father , that we could not see any object , unless the rays of light flowed from it to our eyes . Of course you cannot . Do the rays of the sun then , come to 20 THE EYE .
... the setting sun ! It does . You said one day , Father , that we could not see any object , unless the rays of light flowed from it to our eyes . Of course you cannot . Do the rays of the sun then , come to 20 THE EYE .
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... course in about 365 days . It is ninety - five millions of miles from the sun . The Moon is her bright , her perpetual attendant . She turns round the earth in twenty - seven days and eight hours ; she is the nearest to us of all the ...
... course in about 365 days . It is ninety - five millions of miles from the sun . The Moon is her bright , her perpetual attendant . She turns round the earth in twenty - seven days and eight hours ; she is the nearest to us of all the ...
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... course ? Easily ; because we know how far he has to travel ; and if we know how great a dis- tance he has gone in twenty years , of course he will go the same distance in twenty more , and so on . I do not understand how you know that ...
... course ? Easily ; because we know how far he has to travel ; and if we know how great a dis- tance he has gone in twenty years , of course he will go the same distance in twenty more , and so on . I do not understand how you know that ...
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Страница 75 - Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and everduring dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Страница 97 - Nor is it less pleased with its first successful endeavours to walk, or rather to run (which precedes walking), although entirely ignorant of the importance of the attainment to its future life, and even without applying it to any present purpose. A child is delighted with speaking, without having...
Страница 51 - Were the sun, which enlightens this part of the creation, with all the host of planetary worlds that move about him, utterly extinguished and annihilated, they would not be missed more than a grain of sand upon the sea-shore.
Страница 96 - ... perhaps, of half a yard, and of the breadth of two or three yards, stretching along the coast as far as the eye could reach, and always retiring with the water. When this cloud came to be examined, it proved to be nothing else than so much space filled with young shrimps in the act of bounding into the air from the shallow margin of the water, or from the wet sand.
Страница 51 - The space they possess is so exceedingly little in comparison of the whole, that it would scarce make a blank in the creation. The chasm would be imperceptible to an eye that could take in the whole compass of nature, and pass from one end of the creation to the other; as it is possible there may be such a sense in ourselves hereafter, or in creatures which are at present more exalted...
Страница 95 - Walking by the sea-side, in a calm evening, upon a sandy shore, and with an ebbing tide I have frequently remarked the appearance of a dark cloud, or rather, very thick mist, hanging over the edge of the water, to the height, perhaps, of half a yard, and of the breadth of two or three yards, stretching along the coast as far as the eye could reach, and always returning with the water. When this cloud came to be examined, it proved to be nothing else than so much space, filled with young shrimps...
Страница 98 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Страница 97 - A child is delighted with speaking, without having any thing to say ; and with walking, without knowing where to go. And, prior to both these, I am disposed to believe, that the waking hours of infancy are agreeably taken up with the exercise of vision, or perhaps, more properly speaking, with learning to see.
Страница 57 - LORD is true, and all his works are faithful. 5 He loveth righteousness and judgment ; the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD. 6 By the word of the LORD were the heavens made, and all the hosts of them by the breath of his mouth.
Страница 96 - ... bounding into the air from the shallow margin of the water, or from the wet sand. If any motion of a mute animal could express delight, it was this : if they had meant to make signs of their happiness, they could not have done it more intelligibly. Suppose, then, what I have no doubt of, each individual of this number to be in a state of positive enjoyment ; what a sum, collectively, of gratification and pleasure have we here before our view...