A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps: With Reflections on Atheistical Philosophy, Now Exemplified in France, Volumen2T. Becket, 1794 |
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... considerable depth . My argument goes not so far , as to deny the power of the waters in their retreat ; on the contrary , I warmly contend for it : I only mean to say , that there does not appear a necessity A 4 to LETTER XXXII . 7.
... considerable depth . My argument goes not so far , as to deny the power of the waters in their retreat ; on the contrary , I warmly contend for it : I only mean to say , that there does not appear a necessity A 4 to LETTER XXXII . 7.
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... considerable distance . The measure was to him , both a wise and a lucky one : his lands , in a short time afterwards , were irreme- diably overwhelmed by the ocean , and vessels in a few months cast anchor , where heretofore there had ...
... considerable distance . The measure was to him , both a wise and a lucky one : his lands , in a short time afterwards , were irreme- diably overwhelmed by the ocean , and vessels in a few months cast anchor , where heretofore there had ...
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... extension , we reach forward to immensity ; and from the mo- mentary bustles of our little world , we pass to the immoveable stability of the universe . " The But , But , these Alps , considerable as their ele vation LETTER XXXIII . 15.
... extension , we reach forward to immensity ; and from the mo- mentary bustles of our little world , we pass to the immoveable stability of the universe . " The But , But , these Alps , considerable as their ele vation LETTER XXXIII . 15.
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... considerable as their ele vation may be , are not the parts of the globe which ascend highest into the atmosphere : for a long time , it was thought , the Pic of Teneriffe was the loftiest mountain in our hemisphere ; but this was an ...
... considerable as their ele vation may be , are not the parts of the globe which ascend highest into the atmosphere : for a long time , it was thought , the Pic of Teneriffe was the loftiest mountain in our hemisphere ; but this was an ...
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... considerably the summit of the highest of the Pyrenees ; and yet here , and in the same point of view , you will see blossoms and fruits , plowing , sowing , and gathering the plenteous harvest , as is even with astonishment observed in ...
... considerably the summit of the highest of the Pyrenees ; and yet here , and in the same point of view , you will see blossoms and fruits , plowing , sowing , and gathering the plenteous harvest , as is even with astonishment observed in ...
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Página 293 - And God said unto Noah. The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Página 258 - 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.
Página 282 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
Página 286 - He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
Página 117 - The heat of the metal of the first gun drove so much damp into the mould of the second, which was near it, that as soon as the metal was let into it, it blew up with the greatest violence, tearing up the ground some feet deep, breaking down the furnace, untiling the house, killing many spectators on the spot, with the streams of melted metal, and scalding many others in a most miserable manner.
Página 72 - So it is in contemplation ; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts ; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Página 338 - Sea; this huge mass of stone is softened and dissolved as a tender cloud into rain. Here stood the African mountains, and Atlas with his top above the clouds: there was frozen Caucasus, and Taurus, and Imaus, and the mountains of Asia ; and yonder, towards the north, stood the Riphaean hills, clothed in ice and snow.
Página 399 - Thousands of thousands of suns, multiplied without end, and ranged all around us, at immense distances from each other, attended by ten thousand times ten thousand worlds, all in rapid motion, yet calm, regular, and harmonious, invariably keeping the paths prescribed them ; and these worlds peopled with myriads of intelligent beings, formed for endless progression in perfection and felicity.
Página 247 - That great chain of causes, which, linking one to another, even to the throne of God himself, can never be unravelled by any industry of ours.
Página 411 - And are not the sun and fixed stars great earths vehemently hot, whose heat is conserved by the greatness of the bodies and the mutual action and reaction between them, and 'the light which they emit; and whose parts are kept from fuming away, not only by their fixity, but also by the vast weight and density of the atmospheres incumbent upon them and very strongly compressing them, and condensing the vapors and exhalations which arise from them?