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It may be unnecessary , yet not perhaps , quite impertinent , to state to your
Lordship and to the reader , the several inducements that have led me once more
to the press . The favor of my first and ever honored patron had put me in
possession ...
It may be unnecessary , yet not perhaps , quite impertinent , to state to your
Lordship and to the reader , the several inducements that have led me once more
to the press . The favor of my first and ever honored patron had put me in
possession ...
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In ci - ssing a heath , suppose I pitched my foot against a stone , and were asked
how the stone came to be there ; I might possibly answer , that , for anything I
knew to the contrary , it had lain there forever : nor would it perhaps be very easy
to ...
In ci - ssing a heath , suppose I pitched my foot against a stone , and were asked
how the stone came to be there ; I might possibly answer , that , for anything I
knew to the contrary , it had lain there forever : nor would it perhaps be very easy
to ...
Pagina 6
... if there had been any other than a transparent substance , the hour could not
be seen without opening the This mechanism being observed ( it requires indeed
an examination of the instrument , and perhaps some previous knowledge of the
...
... if there had been any other than a transparent substance , the hour could not
be seen without opening the This mechanism being observed ( it requires indeed
an examination of the instrument , and perhaps some previous knowledge of the
...
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... is done away by supposing the series of watches thus produced from one
another to have been infinite , and consequently to have had no such first , for
which it was necessary to provide a cause . This , perhaps , would have been
nearly the ...
... is done away by supposing the series of watches thus produced from one
another to have been infinite , and consequently to have had no such first , for
which it was necessary to provide a cause . This , perhaps , would have been
nearly the ...
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But farther ; there are other points , not so much perhaps of strict resemblance
between the two , as of superiority of the eye over the telescope , which being
found in the laws that regulate both , may furnish topics of fair and just
comparison .
But farther ; there are other points , not so much perhaps of strict resemblance
between the two , as of superiority of the eye over the telescope , which being
found in the laws that regulate both , may furnish topics of fair and just
comparison .
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