 ... senses. Thus, the earth on which he stands, and which has served for ages as the unshaken foundation of the firmest structures, either of art or nature, is divested by the astronomer of its attribute of fixity, and conceived by him as turning swiftly...  Mechanical Philosophy, Horology and Astronomy - Page 365by William Benjamin Carpenter - 1843 - 7 pagesFull view - About this book
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...of superficial and vulgar observation, and with what appears to every one, until he has understood and weighed the proofs to the contrary, the most positive...swiftly on its centre, and at the same time moving onwards through space with great rapidity. The sun and the moon, which appear to untaught eyes round... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1851 - 706 pages
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...those of superficial and vulgar observation, and with what appears to every one, till he has understood and weighed the proofs to the contrary, the most positive evidence of his senses." — Sir John Herschel. " The opinions of men are received according to the ancient belief, and upon... | |
 | Evan Hopkins - Geology - 1855 - 96 pages
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 | 1856 - 526 pages
...himself the question, how Moses could possibly with what appears to every one, until he has understood and weighed the proofs to the contrary, the most positive evidence of his senses. * Possibly it will not be altogether out of place to make a reference here to Babbage's idea of "laws... | |
 | George Grote - 1859 - 232 pages
...of superficial and vulyar observation, and with what appears to every one, until he has understood and weighed the proofs to the contrary, the most positive...swiftly on its centre, and at the same time moving onward through space with great rapidity, etc." — Sir John Herschel, Astronomy, Introduction, sect.... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1861 - 588 pages
...of superficial and vulgar observation, and with what appears to every one, until he has understood and weighed the proofs to the contrary, the most positive evidence of his sensea. Thus, the earth on which he stands, and which has served for ages as the unshaken foundation... | |
 | William Carpenter (of Greenwich.) - 1864 - 200 pages
...of superficial and vulgar observation, and with what appears to every one, until he has understood " and weighed the proofs to the contrary, the most positive evidence of " his senses." But, in the face of thus having been led to suppose that " the proofs" are realities which may be understood... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Davis - 1866 - 414 pages
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 | William M. White - 1867 - 650 pages
...superficial and vulgar observation, ' and with what appears to every one, till he has understood ' and weighed the proofs to the contrary, the most positive ' evidence of his senses — ' So Swedenborg would have us believe, that the spirit of the Word is as frequently a complete... | |
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