The Chart and Scale of TruthJ. Fletcher, D. Prince and J. Cooke, 1790 - Apologetics |
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... fact , as the religious guardians of the Senfes , from which every thing in found philofo- phy is originally derived , and the skilful in- terpreters of their oracles ; fo that , whilft others only pretend , true philofophers in ...
... fact , as the religious guardians of the Senfes , from which every thing in found philofo- phy is originally derived , and the skilful in- terpreters of their oracles ; fo that , whilft others only pretend , true philofophers in ...
Page 162
... facts and continued ex- perience , he called the MATHEMATICAL PRINCIPLES OF ASTRONOMY . " From thefe Principles or general Laws of Motion , by the fame geometrical calcu- lations , he deduced the ftupendous theory of the elliptical ...
... facts and continued ex- perience , he called the MATHEMATICAL PRINCIPLES OF ASTRONOMY . " From thefe Principles or general Laws of Motion , by the fame geometrical calcu- lations , he deduced the ftupendous theory of the elliptical ...
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... facts . To the fame Phænomena as Effects his philofophy at- tributes the fame exiftent Caufes , by a Maxim founded more in the authority of antiquity than in the truth of things . To inveftigate and affign the true caufes of things is a ...
... facts . To the fame Phænomena as Effects his philofophy at- tributes the fame exiftent Caufes , by a Maxim founded more in the authority of antiquity than in the truth of things . To inveftigate and affign the true caufes of things is a ...
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... Facts , and Experience , the first and final test of truth . And it is enough for his immortal honour , that his Aftronomy , thus founded on Mechanics , has anticipated and predicted all the ftupendous revolutions of the hea- cond ...
... Facts , and Experience , the first and final test of truth . And it is enough for his immortal honour , that his Aftronomy , thus founded on Mechanics , has anticipated and predicted all the ftupendous revolutions of the hea- cond ...
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... facts and ob- fervations into a fyftem at once fublime and luminous . Had this great and good man been content to reft his Aftronomy on the bafis of this ANALOGY Confirmed by repeated Facts and uniform Experience ; and left the Caufes ...
... facts and ob- fervations into a fyftem at once fublime and luminous . Had this great and good man been content to reft his Aftronomy on the bafis of this ANALOGY Confirmed by repeated Facts and uniform Experience ; and left the Caufes ...
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Page 103 - Now the Lord is that Spirit : and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Page 120 - And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, That he may run that readeth it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, But. at the end it shall speak, and not lie: Though it tarry, wait for it ; Because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
Page 16 - He that cometh from above is above all ; he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth ; he that cometh from heaven is above all. And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth ; and no man receiveth his testimony. He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.
Page 6 - JESUS went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. And behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David: my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
Page 197 - Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the Scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes...
Page 199 - Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. "Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver and the gold broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors ; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them; and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.
Page 46 - If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works : that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
Page 43 - And the Word was made flefh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father) full of grace and truth.
Page 274 - The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heav'n to earth, from earth to heav'n ; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.