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Richard Bentley Alexander Dyce. impressed upon the planets retains * them in their several orbs , that they are not drawn down toward the sun . † And again , their gravitating powers so incline them towards the sun , that they are not ...
Richard Bentley Alexander Dyce. impressed upon the planets retains * them in their several orbs , that they are not drawn down toward the sun . † And again , their gravitating powers so incline them towards the sun , that they are not ...
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Richard Bentley Alexander Dyce. all the rest were planets revolving around him in concentric orbs at convenient distances , such a system as that would very long endure , could it but naturally have a principle of mutual attraction , and ...
Richard Bentley Alexander Dyce. all the rest were planets revolving around him in concentric orbs at convenient distances , such a system as that would very long endure , could it but naturally have a principle of mutual attraction , and ...
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... orbs , and the same degrees of velocity , as now ; and yet the sun might have been an opaque and cold body like them . For , as the six primary planets revolve about him , so the secondary ones are moved about them ; the moon about the ...
... orbs , and the same degrees of velocity , as now ; and yet the sun might have been an opaque and cold body like them . For , as the six primary planets revolve about him , so the secondary ones are moved about them ; the moon about the ...
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... orbs more bene- ficial than the other would be ? If the planets had moved in those lines above named , sometimes they would have ap- proached to the sun as near as the orb of Mercury , and some- times have exorbitated beyond the ...
... orbs more bene- ficial than the other would be ? If the planets had moved in those lines above named , sometimes they would have ap- proached to the sun as near as the orb of Mercury , and some- times have exorbitated beyond the ...
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... orb ? We have shewn * before , that if gravity and a projected motion be fitly proportioned , any planet would freely revolve at any assignable distance within the space of the whole system . Was it mere chance , then , or divine ...
... orb ? We have shewn * before , that if gravity and a projected motion be fitly proportioned , any planet would freely revolve at any assignable distance within the space of the whole system . Was it mere chance , then , or divine ...
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Page 32 - ... that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he be not far from every one of us : For in him we live, and move and have our being ; as certain also of your own poets [have said, for we are also his offspring.
Page 173 - Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Page 26 - Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
Page 31 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Page 241 - For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
Page 211 - It is inconceivable, that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must be, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it.
Page 1 - THE FOOL hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Page 380 - And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
Page 58 - Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason, man is not a fly.
Page 172 - Therefore with Angels and Archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify Thy glorious Name, evermore praising Thee and saying, HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, LORD GOD of hosts, heaven and earth are full of Thy glory. Glory be to Thee, O LORD MOST HIGH.