 | Biography - 1817 - 552 pages
...probable there may be inhabitants in this other world ; but of what kind they are, is uncertain. XIV. That it is possible for some of our posterity to find out...be inhabitants there, to have commerce with them. Under this head he observes, that " if it be here inquired, what means there may be conjectured for... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - English literature - 1823 - 402 pages
...earth, he waxes bold, and ventures at once to enunciate his fourteenth proposition, thus : — " That it is possible for some of our posterity to find out...this other world ; and if there be inhabitants there, (which, by the bye, is settled in proposition thirteen) to have commerce with them." How he supports... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1823 - 398 pages
...earth, he waxes bold, and ventures at once to enunciate his fourteenth proposition, thus : — " That it is possible for some of our posterity to find out...this other world ; and if there be inhabitants there, (which, by the bye, is settled in proposition thirteen) to have commerce with them." How he supports... | |
 | Robert Stuart - Inventors - 1829 - 510 pages
...wits; among other?, the celebrated Duchess of Newcastle objected to the doctor's proposition, " that it is possible for some of our posterity to find out a conveyance to this other world," and suggested the want of baiting places on the way; the Doctor's reply was an expression of surprise,... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Creation - 1834 - 610 pages
...natural science, has made it his fourteenth proposition, and elaborately argued in its behalf, ' That it is possible for some of our posterity to find out...be inhabitants there, to have commerce with them.' Disc. New World, p. 135-160. We feel capable of something nobler ; we seem born for what is superior.... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Religion and science - 1834 - 608 pages
...natural science, has made it his fourteenth proposition, and elaborately argued in its behalf, ' That it is possible for some of our posterity to find out...be inhabitants there, to have commerce with them.' Disc. New World, p. 135-160. LETTER We feel capable of something nobler ; we seem «__3l__, born for... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Bible - 1835 - 460 pages
...natural science, has made it his fourteenth proposition,and elaborately argued in its behalf, "That it is possible for some of our posterity to find out...there be inhabitants there, to have commerce with. them."-Disc. New World, p. 135-160. Lord of all, and that every other home to us will be as much his... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Creation - 1838 - 448 pages
...natural science, has made it his fourteenth proposition, and elaborately argued in its behalf, " That it is possible for some of our posterity to find out...inhabitants there, to have commerce with them."— Disc. New World, p. 135-160. Lord of all, and that every other home to us will be as much his world,... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Europe - 1839 - 422 pages
...better acquaintance with those inhabitants." To this he comes as his final proposition, that it may be possible for some of our posterity to find out a conveyance...world ; and if there be inhabitants there, to have communication with them. But this chapter is the worst in the book, and shows that Wilkins, notwithstanding... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 852 pages
...argues that the Moon is habitable, the XIYth NtmWortd. am, ]ast proposition amrms> •• that 'tis possible for some of our Posterity to find out a conveyance...other World, and if there be inhabitants there to have comBishop Hi« Ditnrrry of a merce with them.' Kepler, as he admits, had antici- Ft,' pated him in... | |
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That it is possible for some of our posterity to find out a conveyance to this other world, and if there be inhabitants there, to have commerce with them. 
