The Newtonian System of Philosophy: Adapted to the Capacities of Young Ladies and Gentlemen, and Familiarized and Made Entertaining by Objects with which They are Intimately Acquainted : Being the Substance of Six Lectures, Read to a Select Company of Friends |
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Page 71 - Let the great gods, That keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads, Find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee undivulged crimes, Unwhipp'd of justice: Hide thee, thou bloody hand; Thou perjur'd, and thou simular man of virtue That art incestuous : Caitiff, to pieces shake, That under covert and convenient seeming...
Page 82 - ... disgorge fire and smoke afresh (which sometimes happened within a few years) then were the neighbouring fields burnt up, and the highways made dangerous to travellers. "A mountain in Java, not far from the. town of Panacura, in the year 1586, was shattered to pieces by a violent eruption of glowing sulphur (though it had never burnt before) ; whereby (as it was reported) ten thousand people perished in the under-land fields.
Page 72 - How fhall your houfelefs heads, and unfed fides, Your loop'd and window'd raggednefs, defend you From feafons fuch as thefe ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take phyfic, pomp ; Expofe thyfelf to feel what wretches feel ; That thou may'it make the fuperflux to them, And mew the heavens more juft.
Page 71 - LEAR. Let the great Gods, That keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads, Find out their enemies now. Tremble thou wretch, That haft within thee undivulged crimes Unwhipt of juftice ! Hide thee thou bloody hand, Thou perjur'd, and thou fimular of virtue...
Page 120 - Hearing is the next most extensile of our « . rj senses, the organ of which is the ear, whose structure is extremely curious, as may be seen in the books of Anatomy. That which the ear conveys to the brain is called Sound, though till it reaches and affects the perceptive part, it is in reality nothing but motion ; and this motion, which produces in us the perception of sound, is a vibration of the air occasioned by a very short and quick tremulous motion of the body from whence it is propagated....
Page 29 - The coming of the earth between the moon and the fun : it is eafy to be conceived,, that the moon, having no light of her own, when the rays of the fun are intercepted from her, fhe will appear dark or dufky. An eclipfe of the fun never happens but at a new moon, nor one of the moon but when fhe is full.
Page 7 - Somewhat too might be said on the gravity and attraclion between the top, or the hoop, and the earth ; but that you are not yet able to comprehend, and therefore we shall proceed in our Lecture. A body in motion will always move on in a straight line, unless it be turned out of it by some external cause. Thus, we see that a marble shot upon the ice, if the surface be very smooth, will continue its motion in a straight line till it is stopt by the fri&ion of the ice and air, and the force of attraction...