Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 11. köide,2. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Page 526
... nature of evidence has begun his work , if not with a formal definition , with fomething at leaft equi- valent to a definition of the object of his purfuit . To repeat all these definitions could ferve no other pur- pofe than to fwell ...
... nature of evidence has begun his work , if not with a formal definition , with fomething at leaft equi- valent to a definition of the object of his purfuit . To repeat all these definitions could ferve no other pur- pofe than to fwell ...
Page 557
... nature . a This theory of the intermediate agency of a fubtle fluid differs not effentially from the vortices of Des Cartes ; Flato , Ari- which appeared fo very abfurd to Cudworth , that with boldnefs becoming a man of the first genius ...
... nature . a This theory of the intermediate agency of a fubtle fluid differs not effentially from the vortices of Des Cartes ; Flato , Ari- which appeared fo very abfurd to Cudworth , that with boldnefs becoming a man of the first genius ...
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... nature of space be but one and duration , which they confider as modes of the felf - existent felf - exiftent Being , they take it for granted , that space Being . and duration have a real exiftence , independent of us and our thoughts ...
... nature of space be but one and duration , which they confider as modes of the felf - existent felf - exiftent Being , they take it for granted , that space Being . and duration have a real exiftence , independent of us and our thoughts ...
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