A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 3J. and H. L. Hunt, 1824 |
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... objects can only be known by experience , comparison , and habit . It is that which makes a sailor , on seeing a vessel ... object be a thousand leagues from us or only a foot , this point is always the same to our eyes . We have then no ...
... objects can only be known by experience , comparison , and habit . It is that which makes a sailor , on seeing a vessel ... object be a thousand leagues from us or only a foot , this point is always the same to our eyes . We have then no ...
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... object , another the visible object . I hear , from my chamber , the noise of a car- riage ; I open my window and see it ; I descend and enter it . Yet this carriage that I have heard , this carriage that I have seen , and this carriage ...
... object , another the visible object . I hear , from my chamber , the noise of a car- riage ; I open my window and see it ; I descend and enter it . Yet this carriage that I have heard , this carriage that I have seen , and this carriage ...
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... objects in their proper places , than that we see them of a certain size and at a certain distance . The mind does not consider , that if this part were to be painted at the bottom of the eye , it could collect nothing from lines that ...
... objects in their proper places , than that we see them of a certain size and at a certain distance . The mind does not consider , that if this part were to be painted at the bottom of the eye , it could collect nothing from lines that ...
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... object about the size of an inch , which was placed before his eyes , and which concealed a house from him , appeared as large as the house itself . All that he saw seemed to touch his eyes , and to touch them as objects of feeling ...
... object about the size of an inch , which was placed before his eyes , and which concealed a house from him , appeared as large as the house itself . All that he saw seemed to touch his eyes , and to touch them as objects of feeling ...
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... object is too far , we see it confusedly and weakly ; and from thence we form ideas , which always afterwards ... object appears to me very small . I think I see a statue two feet high at most ; the object moves , I then judge that it is ...
... object is too far , we see it confusedly and weakly ; and from thence we form ideas , which always afterwards ... object appears to me very small . I think I see a statue two feet high at most ; the object moves , I then judge that it is ...
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Page 51 - But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
Page 280 - And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Page 47 - And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day...
Page 133 - Viselli : 105 est modus in rebus, sunt certi denique fines, quos ultra citraque nequit consistere rectum.
Page 89 - And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars ; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
Page 293 - And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men builded.
Page 311 - ... that the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the sides.
Page 145 - Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou and reign over us. And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
Page 274 - The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.