The Newtonian System of Philosophy: Explained by Familiar Objects in an Entertaining Manner : for the Use of Young Ladies and Gentlemen |
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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 134 - M 2 from the wife, the parents from the children, and all of them from their native country, to be sold in a foreign market, like so many horses, and often to the most merciless of the human race.
Page 8 - Gravity, my young friends, is that universal disposition of matter which inclines or carries the lesser part towards the centre of the greater part, which is called weight or gravitation in the lesser body, but attraction in the greater, because it draws, as it were, the lesser body to it. — Thus, all bodies in or near the earth's surface have a tendency, or seeming inclination, to descend towards its middle part or...
Page 133 - Williams, is also of the same disposition : he will not sell a horse that is declining, for fear he should fall into the hands of a master who might treat him with cruelty ; but he is largely concerned in the...
Page 67 - ... thinly spread through the atmosphere^ above the clouds, where they ferment, and, taking fire, the explosion of one portion kindles the next, and the flashes succeed one another, till all the vapour is set on fire, the streams whereof seem to converge towards the zenith of the spectator, or that point of the heavens which is immediately over his head.
Page 85 - ... of the surface of the water, in the great ocean, following the motion of the Moon from East to West, and striking against the large coasts of the...
Page 113 - Lecture :—— *>'. All our ideas, therefore, are obtained either by sensation or reflection ; that is to say, by means of our five senses; as seeing, hearing^ smelling, tasting, and touching, or by the operations of the mind> Before you proceed farther, says Mrs, Twilight, you should, I think, explain to the company what is meant by the term Idea.
Page 131 - The mind, having gained a variety of simple ideas, by putting them together, forms what are called compounded or complex ideas ; as those signified by the words, Man, Horse, Marygold, Windmill, &c. The next operation of the mind (or of the understanding) in its progress to knowledge, is that of abstracting its ideas ; for by abstraction they are made general ; and a ge•neral idea is to be considered as separated ' from time and place, and lodged in the mind to represent any particular thing that...
Page 67 - ... and above the clouds, where they ferment, and, taking fire, the explosion of one portion kindles the next, and the flashes succeed one another till all the vapour is set on fire. But we know sufficient of the electric fluid's powers and operations not to believe it the cause of those streams of light, which, under the name of the Aurora Borealis, seem to converge towards v the zenith of the spectator, or to that point of the heavens which is immediately over his head.