Monthly Magazine; Or, British Register of Literature, Sciences and the Belles- Lettres, Volume 14Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 1803 - Art |
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... Paris , that Mr. Morveau , and the other French chymifts , diffatif fied , no doubt , with the two preceding anfwers , triumph greatly . But it ap- pears to me to be loaded with more dif- ficulties than either of them . 1. Suppofing it ...
... Paris , that Mr. Morveau , and the other French chymifts , diffatif fied , no doubt , with the two preceding anfwers , triumph greatly . But it ap- pears to me to be loaded with more dif- ficulties than either of them . 1. Suppofing it ...
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... Paris adds , they had very fubftantial reafons for ftaying at home , ( 578 ) . Two years afterwards , he took a more effectual me thod of making them feel the weight of his refentment , by prohibiting the ex- portation of their wooL ...
... Paris adds , they had very fubftantial reafons for ftaying at home , ( 578 ) . Two years afterwards , he took a more effectual me thod of making them feel the weight of his refentment , by prohibiting the ex- portation of their wooL ...
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... Paris , Mal- ta , Italy , and Germany ; from all which parts its excellence is confirmed , and it is now likewife introduced into Turkey . He laid before the Committee all the publica- tions and papers he had received on that head . He ...
... Paris , Mal- ta , Italy , and Germany ; from all which parts its excellence is confirmed , and it is now likewife introduced into Turkey . He laid before the Committee all the publica- tions and papers he had received on that head . He ...
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... Paris , where he had already been in 1672. Then it was that he began to apply to the higher geometry , a tafie for which he had conceived from the conver- fation of Huygens . In 1676 Leibnitz returned to Germany , by the way of London ...
... Paris , where he had already been in 1672. Then it was that he began to apply to the higher geometry , a tafie for which he had conceived from the conver- fation of Huygens . In 1676 Leibnitz returned to Germany , by the way of London ...
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... Paris , which , as he may read in the 2d volume of the Monthly Magazine , page 719 , was in the begin- ning of 1796 already capable of tanning yearly fifty thoufand ox - hides , two hun- dred thousand calf skins , & c . and where fince ...
... Paris , which , as he may read in the 2d volume of the Monthly Magazine , page 719 , was in the begin- ning of 1796 already capable of tanning yearly fifty thoufand ox - hides , two hun- dred thousand calf skins , & c . and where fince ...
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Page 102 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Page 486 - And (to me) it seems no less evident that the various sensations or ideas imprinted on the sense, however blended or combined together (that is, whatever objects they compose), cannot exist otherwise than in a mind perceiving them. I think an intuitive knowledge may be obtained of this, by any one that shall attend to what is meant by the term exist, when applied to sensible things.
Page 485 - IT is evident to any one who takes a survey of the objects of human knowledge, that they are either ideas actually imprinted on the senses; or else such as are perceived by attending to the passions and operations of the mind; or lastly, ideas formed by help of memory and imagination— either compounding, dividing, or barely representing those originally perceived in the aforesaid ways.
Page 327 - Lord, (said I) if it please your grace, I doe give now, but when I beg any thing, then I will kneele.
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