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Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy: Considered in It's [sic ... - Page 115
by George Adams - 1794
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An Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries: In Four Books

Colin MacLaurin - 1750 - 474 pages
...infinite fpace. his views from many points of fight, and fupply the defects of fenfe by a well regulated imagination ; nor is he to be confined by any limit...thefe, and muft often return to them, to examine his progrefs by them. Here is his fecure hold ; and as he fets out from thence, fo if he likewife trace...
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An Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries: In Four Books

Colin MacLaurin - 1775 - 468 pages
...have defired to pry into the; flate of the fixed liars, and at kngth to comprehend infinite fpace. his views from many points of fight, and fupply the...thefe, and muft often return to them, to examine his progrefs by them. Here is his fecure hold ; and as he fets out from thence, fo if he likewife .trace...
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Elements of General Knowledge: Introductory to Useful Books in the ..., Volume 2

Henry Kett - 1805 - 340 pages
...the defects of sense by a well regulated imagination ; nor is he to be confined by any limit in space or time : but as his knowledge of nature is founded on the observation of sensible things, he must begin with these, and must often return to them to examine...
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Elements of General Knowledge: Introductory to Useful Books in the ..., Volume 2

Henry Kett - 1805 - 340 pages
...the defects of sense by a well regulated imagination ; nor is he to be confined by any limit in space or time : but as his knowledge of nature is founded on the observation of sensible things, he . must begin with these, and must often return to them to examine...
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Lectures on Light: Delivered in the United States in 1872-'73

John Tyndall - 1873 - 206 pages
...the defects of sense by a well-regulated imagination ; nor is he to be confined by any limit in space or time ; but, as his knowledge of Nature is founded on the observation of sensible things, he must begin with these, and must often return to them to examine...
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Humboldt Library of Popular Science Literature, Volume 2, Issues 37-48

1879 - 614 pages
...the defects of sense by a wellregulated imagination ; nor is he to be confined by any limit in space or time ; but, as his knowledge of ; Nature is founded on the observation of sensible things, he must begin with these, and must often return to them to examine...
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Six Lectures on Light Delivered in America in 1872-1873

John Tyndall - 1881 - 318 pages
...the defects of sense by a well-regulated imagination ; nor is he to be confined by any limit in space or time ; but, as his knowledge of Nature is founded on the observation of sensible things, he must begin with these, and must often return to them to examine...
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An Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries

Colin MacLaurin - 1748 - 450 pages
...indeed to take his views from many points of fight, and fupply the defects of fenfe by a well regulated imagination ; nor is he to be confined by any limit in fpace or * If we were to examine more particularly the fituation of man in nature, we fhould find reafon to...
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