Miscellaneous Works of the Late Dr. Arbuthnot, Volumen1W. Richardson and L. Urquhart, 1770 |
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... Thoughts which Ig- norance and Superstition are apt to beget . How great an Enemy Mathematicks are to Superftition , appears from this , that in thofe Countries where Romish Priests exercise their barbarous Tyranny over the Minds of Men ...
... Thoughts which Ig- norance and Superstition are apt to beget . How great an Enemy Mathematicks are to Superftition , appears from this , that in thofe Countries where Romish Priests exercise their barbarous Tyranny over the Minds of Men ...
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... thought a Physician fhould be able to know the fituation and afpects of the Stars , which they believed had influence upon Men and their Difeafes ( and pofitively to deny it , and fay , that they have none at all , is the effect of want ...
... thought a Physician fhould be able to know the fituation and afpects of the Stars , which they believed had influence upon Men and their Difeafes ( and pofitively to deny it , and fay , that they have none at all , is the effect of want ...
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... thoughts by Mathematical ex- amples , and that not only in Logick , & c . but even in Ethicks , where he makes use of Geometrical and Arithmetical proportion to explain commutative and diftributive justice . Every body knows , that ...
... thoughts by Mathematical ex- amples , and that not only in Logick , & c . but even in Ethicks , where he makes use of Geometrical and Arithmetical proportion to explain commutative and diftributive justice . Every body knows , that ...
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... thing elfe . Upon this depend the principles of Game . We find Sharpers know enough of this to cheat fome men that would take it very ill to be thought Bub- Bubbles ; and one Gamefter exceeds another , as he 48 An Efay on the Ufefulness.
... thing elfe . Upon this depend the principles of Game . We find Sharpers know enough of this to cheat fome men that would take it very ill to be thought Bub- Bubbles ; and one Gamefter exceeds another , as he 48 An Efay on the Ufefulness.
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... thought a Jewel . And at laft , that famous Pyramid was fet up in the Campus Martius , to ferve for a Gnomon to a Dial marked on the street . To this fort of Engines ought to be referred Spheres , Globes , Aftrolabes , Projections of ...
... thought a Jewel . And at laft , that famous Pyramid was fet up in the Campus Martius , to ferve for a Gnomon to a Dial marked on the street . To this fort of Engines ought to be referred Spheres , Globes , Aftrolabes , Projections of ...
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Página ix - Was at last condemned to it for what he could not do. Oh, indignant Reader! Think not his Life useless to Mankind!
Página 104 - And he gave it for his opinion, " That whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Página 88 - This diversion is only practised by those persons who are candidates for great employments and high favour at court. They are trained in this art from their youth, and are not always of noble birth or liberal education. When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens), five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope, and whoever jumps the highest without falling, succeeds in the office.
Página 89 - ... and whoever jumps the highest without falling, succeeds in the office. Very often the chief ministers themselves are commanded to...
Página 89 - Reldresal, principal secretary for private affairs, is, in my opinion, if I am not partial, the second after the treasurer; the rest of the great officers are much upon a par. These diversions are often attended with fatal accidents, whereof great numbers are on record.
Página 92 - Blefuscu; and when they were quelled the exiles always fled for refuge to that empire. It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end. Many hundred large volumes have been published upon this controversy; but the books of the Bigendians have been long forbidden, and the whole party rendered incapable by law of holding employments.
Página 89 - ... not received a fall, and some of them two or three. I was assured that a year or two before my arrival, Flimnap would have infallibly broke his neck, if one of the King's cushions, that accidentally lay on the ground, had not weakened the force of his fall.
Página 89 - But the danger is much greater when the ministers themselves are commanded to show their dexterity; for, by contending to excel themselves and their fellows, they strain so far that there is hardly one of them who hath not received a fall, and some of them two or three.
Página 90 - The Emperor holds a stick in his hands, both ends parallel to the horizon, while the candidates, advancing one by one, sometimes leap over the stick, sometimes creep under it backwards and forwards several times, according as the stick is advanced or depressed.
Página 5 - By giving us a clear and extensive knowledge of the system of the world, which, as it creates in us the most profound reverence of the Almighty and wise Creator, so it frees us from the mean and narrow thoughts which ignorance and superstition are apt to beget.