The Complete Works of Thomas Dick: Illustrated with Engravings and a Portrait of the Author, Volume 1H. S. & J. Applegate, 1850 - Astronomy |
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... sublime objects which science presents before us . Variety of novel and interesting objects it exhibits . Illustrated from mechanics , hydrostatics , magnetism , optics , chemistry , & c . Instruments connected with optics . Figure of ...
... sublime objects which science presents before us . Variety of novel and interesting objects it exhibits . Illustrated from mechanics , hydrostatics , magnetism , optics , chemistry , & c . Instruments connected with optics . Figure of ...
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... sublime views of the Deity , -give full assurance of a state of immortality , -point out the way in which pardon may be obtained , -incul- cate the purest and most comprehensive system of morality , -explain certain moral phenomena ...
... sublime views of the Deity , -give full assurance of a state of immortality , -point out the way in which pardon may be obtained , -incul- cate the purest and most comprehensive system of morality , -explain certain moral phenomena ...
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... sublime intercourse with the Creator himself , and of endless progres- sion in knowledge and felicity , should have their minds almost wholly absorbed in eating and drinking , in childish and cruel sports and diver- sions , and in ...
... sublime intercourse with the Creator himself , and of endless progres- sion in knowledge and felicity , should have their minds almost wholly absorbed in eating and drinking , in childish and cruel sports and diver- sions , and in ...
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... sublime enjoyments , but has created innumerable unfounded alarms , which greatly in- crease the sum of human misery . Man is natu- rally timid , terrified at those dangers whose con- sequences he cannot foresee , and at those un ...
... sublime enjoyments , but has created innumerable unfounded alarms , which greatly in- crease the sum of human misery . Man is natu- rally timid , terrified at those dangers whose con- sequences he cannot foresee , and at those un ...
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... sublime truths and deductions , in every science , when stripped of all their adven- titious circumstances , simplified , and expressed in the plainest and most perspicuous terms , may be reduced to so many facts . This position might ...
... sublime truths and deductions , in every science , when stripped of all their adven- titious circumstances , simplified , and expressed in the plainest and most perspicuous terms , may be reduced to so many facts . This position might ...
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