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Page 75
... heat of the sun and of fire are quite different in kind , ―lest men should imagine that by the operations of fire anything like the works of nature can be educed and formed . Hence the notion that composition only is the work of man ...
... heat of the sun and of fire are quite different in kind , ―lest men should imagine that by the operations of fire anything like the works of nature can be educed and formed . Hence the notion that composition only is the work of man ...
Page 86
... heat of the sun and of fire differ in kind , and to that other concerning mixture , has been already observed . Which things , if they be noted accurately , tend wholly to the unfair circumscription of human power , and to a deliberate ...
... heat of the sun and of fire differ in kind , and to that other concerning mixture , has been already observed . Which things , if they be noted accurately , tend wholly to the unfair circumscription of human power , and to a deliberate ...
Page 106
... heat , cold , light , hardness , softness , rarity , density , liquidity , solidity , animation , inanimation , similarity , dissimilarity , organisation , and the like ; but admitting these as self - evident and obvious , they dispute ...
... heat , cold , light , hardness , softness , rarity , density , liquidity , solidity , animation , inanimation , similarity , dissimilarity , organisation , and the like ; but admitting these as self - evident and obvious , they dispute ...
Page 112
... heat and cold , or light , or vegetation , or the like . But nevertheless since my method of interpretation , after the history has been prepared and duly arranged , regards not the working and discourse of the mind only ( as the common ...
... heat and cold , or light , or vegetation , or the like . But nevertheless since my method of interpretation , after the history has been prepared and duly arranged , regards not the working and discourse of the mind only ( as the common ...
Page 120
... heat ) in certain subjects only , his knowledge is imperfect ; and if he be able to superinduce an effect on certain substances only ( of those susceptible of such effect ) , his power is in like manner imperfect . Now if a man's ...
... heat ) in certain subjects only , his knowledge is imperfect ; and if he be able to superinduce an effect on certain substances only ( of those susceptible of such effect ) , his power is in like manner imperfect . Now if a man's ...
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