Essays, Selected from Contributions to the Edinburgh Review: Supplementary volLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855 |
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... THEORY and PRACTICE . By AUG . DE LA RIVE , Professor in the Academy of Geneva . In 2 vols , with many Wood Engravings . Vol : I. 8vo . price 188 . IX . LARDNER and WALKER'S MANUAL of ELECTRI- CITY , MAGNETISM , and METEOROLOGY . With ...
... THEORY and PRACTICE . By AUG . DE LA RIVE , Professor in the Academy of Geneva . In 2 vols , with many Wood Engravings . Vol : I. 8vo . price 188 . IX . LARDNER and WALKER'S MANUAL of ELECTRI- CITY , MAGNETISM , and METEOROLOGY . With ...
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... theory of ' vortices ; ' the notion that the essence of matter is extension , and that therefore there is a universal plenum ; that the seat of the soul is unquestionably the conarion , or pineal gland , for which his reasons are most ...
... theory of ' vortices ; ' the notion that the essence of matter is extension , and that therefore there is a universal plenum ; that the seat of the soul is unquestionably the conarion , or pineal gland , for which his reasons are most ...
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... theory of ' innate ideas , ' as well as in relation to other subjects . This oscillation seems in part due to the fact that in the successive efforts to illustrate and explain his views , he sometimes modified them , without always ...
... theory of ' innate ideas , ' as well as in relation to other subjects . This oscillation seems in part due to the fact that in the successive efforts to illustrate and explain his views , he sometimes modified them , without always ...
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... theory of the subject ; and affirms that he only thinks every thing might have been produced in such a course of development . We shall nevertheless concede him the honour he is anxious to divest himself of ; for it is pretty certain ...
... theory of the subject ; and affirms that he only thinks every thing might have been produced in such a course of development . We shall nevertheless concede him the honour he is anxious to divest himself of ; for it is pretty certain ...
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... theories . We almost think that Descartes would boldly persevere , and still affirm , as he has done , that though he did not assert that the universe was really constructed in his way ( but pro- bably in ' methods much more perfect ...
... theories . We almost think that Descartes would boldly persevere , and still affirm , as he has done , that though he did not assert that the universe was really constructed in his way ( but pro- bably in ' methods much more perfect ...
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Side 58 - He who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not seen ? You, Mr.
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Side 277 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and in'tense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
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Side 20 - Readings for a Month preparatory to Confirmation : Compiled from the Works of Writers of the Early and of the English Church. Fcp.
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Side 295 - Catholic England has been restored to its orbit in the ecclesiastical firmament, from which its light had long vanished, and begins now anew its course of regularly adjusted action round the centre of unity, the source of jurisdiction, of light and of vigour.
Side 93 - I shall not at present meddle with the physical consideration of the mind, or trouble myself to examine wherein its essence consists, or by what motions of our spirits, or alterations of our bodies, we come to have any sensation by our organs, or any ideas in our understandings; and whether those ideas do, in their formation, any or all of them, depend on matter or no.
Side 19 - SIR EDWARD SEAWARD'S NARRATIVE OF HIS SHIPWRECK, and consequent Discovery of certain Islands in the Caribbean Sea: with a detail of many extraordinary and highly interesting Events in his Life, from 1733 to 1749. as written in his own Diary. Edited by Miss JANE PORTER.