Systematic Education: Or Elementary Instruction in the Various Departments of Literature and Science; with Practical Rules for Studying Each Branch of Useful Knowledge, Volumen2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815 |
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... 444 • • 477 XXVI . On Man , his Structure and Functions , 503 XXVII . Continued • A Letter from a Father to his Son , on the Evidences of 522 the Christian Religion · 542 PRACTICAL ESSAY , & c . CHAP . I. ON iv CONTENTS .
... 444 • • 477 XXVI . On Man , his Structure and Functions , 503 XXVII . Continued • A Letter from a Father to his Son , on the Evidences of 522 the Christian Religion · 542 PRACTICAL ESSAY , & c . CHAP . I. ON iv CONTENTS .
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... evidence of their having previously undergone fusion . When the communication between the points positively and negatively electrified , was made in air , rarefied in the receiver of the air - pump , the distance at which the discharge ...
... evidence of their having previously undergone fusion . When the communication between the points positively and negatively electrified , was made in air , rarefied in the receiver of the air - pump , the distance at which the discharge ...
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... Christianity , and the strength of the evidences on which it is founded . It leads to the most interesting conclusions respecting the worth of Christian precepts , and the exalted nature of Christian mo- 244 MENTAL PHILOSOPHY .
... Christianity , and the strength of the evidences on which it is founded . It leads to the most interesting conclusions respecting the worth of Christian precepts , and the exalted nature of Christian mo- 244 MENTAL PHILOSOPHY .
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... evidence ; in discovering the general principles agreeably to which particular phenomena have been produced , or the causes operating to produce any known effect , and their re- spective influence . Mr. Stewart ( Outlines , p . 58 ) ...
... evidence ; in discovering the general principles agreeably to which particular phenomena have been produced , or the causes operating to produce any known effect , and their re- spective influence . Mr. Stewart ( Outlines , p . 58 ) ...
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... Evidence ; Syl- logisms and Sophisms , Observations on the Pursuit of Truth . IDEAS . According to the views which we have already endeavoured to convey to our readers , our ideas ( with the exception of those of reflection , ) are the ...
... Evidence ; Syl- logisms and Sophisms , Observations on the Pursuit of Truth . IDEAS . According to the views which we have already endeavoured to convey to our readers , our ideas ( with the exception of those of reflection , ) are the ...
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Página 441 - THE annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.
Página 354 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Página 478 - It is in this manner that money has become in all civilized nations the universal instrument of commerce, by the intervention of which goods of all kinds are bought and sold, or exchanged for one another.
Página 97 - When any substance was introduced into this arch, it instantly became ignited ; platina melted as readily in it as wax in the flame of a common candle ; quartz, the sapphire, magnesia, lime, all entered into fusion...
Página 492 - Taking the whole earth, instead of this island, emigration would, of course, be excluded; and, supposing the present population equal to a thousand millions, the human species would increase as the numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, and subsistence as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In two centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries as 4096 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable.
Página 321 - MORAL Philosophy, Morality, Ethics, Casuistry, Natural Law, mean all the same thing ; namely, that science which teaches men their duty and the reasons of it.
Página 113 - Aries the Ram, Taurus the Bull, Gemini the Twins, Cancer the Crab, Leo the Lion, Virgo the Virgin, Libra the Balance, Scorpio the Scorpion, Sagittarius the Archer, Capricornus the Goat, Aquarius the Waterbearer, and Pisces the Fishes...
Página 495 - I should propose a regulation to be made, declaring that no child born from any marriage taking place after the expiration of a year from the date of the law, and no illegitimate child born two years from the same date, should ever be entitled to parish assistance.
Página 489 - It is in this manner that the demand for men, like that for any other commodity, necessarily regulates the production of men, quickens it when it goes on too slowly, and stops it when it advances too fast.
Página 475 - Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased ; and its value, to those who possess it, and who want to exchange it for some new productions, is precisely equal to the quantity of labour which it can enable them to purchase or command.