Reflections Physical and Moral, Upon the Various and Numerous Uncommon Phenomena in the Air, Water, Or Earth, which Have Happened from the Earthquake at Lima, to the Present Time: In a Series of Familiar Letters from a Member of Parliament in Town to His Friend in the CountryA. Millar, 1756 - 60 pages |
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... last nine or ten Years have produc'd more Earthquakes and other unufual Phenomena in Nature , than ever hap- pen'd in the World in the fame Space of Time fince the general Deluge . You obferved too , upon the Occafion , as I remember ...
... last nine or ten Years have produc'd more Earthquakes and other unufual Phenomena in Nature , than ever hap- pen'd in the World in the fame Space of Time fince the general Deluge . You obferved too , upon the Occafion , as I remember ...
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... last found themselves intangled in a moft inextricable Maze of Error . Some affign'd one Cause , some ano- ther . Some afferted Fire to be the firft Cause or Producer of every Being ; others attributed this Power to Air or Æther ...
... last found themselves intangled in a moft inextricable Maze of Error . Some affign'd one Cause , some ano- ther . Some afferted Fire to be the firft Cause or Producer of every Being ; others attributed this Power to Air or Æther ...
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... last Verse , the Approach of which the terrible Earthquake there described , was to indicate , and , -confequently , to characterise the Time when it was to be expected . - The Particulars of this great Catastrophe I shall treat of in ...
... last Verse , the Approach of which the terrible Earthquake there described , was to indicate , and , -confequently , to characterise the Time when it was to be expected . - The Particulars of this great Catastrophe I shall treat of in ...
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... last to that Degree of Barbarity , which is fo common among thofe Savages ? The Ancients seem to have been of this Opinion , by the Story they relate of Diomedes a Thracian Tyrant , who threw Men whilft living to be devoured by his ...
... last to that Degree of Barbarity , which is fo common among thofe Savages ? The Ancients seem to have been of this Opinion , by the Story they relate of Diomedes a Thracian Tyrant , who threw Men whilft living to be devoured by his ...
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... last swept away into Captivity by the Chaldeans . Whether the total Difregard of this Precept , which has pre- vailed fo long in the greatest Part of the Chrif tian World , may not be imputed to them as a Crime , and confequently , in ...
... last swept away into Captivity by the Chaldeans . Whether the total Difregard of this Precept , which has pre- vailed fo long in the greatest Part of the Chrif tian World , may not be imputed to them as a Crime , and confequently , in ...
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abfolute Adamah Æther affign'd againſt almoſt alſo Animals arifing Atoms or Particles becauſe beſt Blood call'd Cauſe commanded Commotions compleated confequently confifted conftantly Creatures Crime Darkneſs Deep deſcribed Divine dreadful Earth Earthquake employ'd facred Writings fame feems felves fhall fhould Fiffures fill'd final Doom fince Fire firft firſt Fluid fmall fome fometimes Food form'd Formation ftill ftrongly fuch Hebrew Hebrew Language Hiſtory Idolatry immenfe inferior Agents Inftance juft juſt Kind laft laſt leaſt Light Lisbon Mankind Maſs Meaſure Mofaic Mofes moft Moral Caufe moſt muft muſt Nations Nature niſhing Number obferv'd obferve Occafion Paffages Paffion Perfons Philofophy phyfical plainly poffibly Power Precept prefent produc'd proper Puniſhment Purpoſe quake quently Reafon receiv'd REFLECTIONS PHYSICAL refpective reft Religion Reſearches Ruabb Ruabh Ruahh ſeems Senfe ſhall Sodom Spirit Strata Tebom terrible thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe tion Univerſe us'd Uſe vaft Vapours various Waters whilft whofe whole Worship
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Page 38 - And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood ; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
Page 38 - For the life or soul of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given.it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls : for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Page 50 - Take ye therefore good heed unto yourfelves, (for ye faw no manner of fimilitude on the day that the Lord fpake unto you in Horeb out of the midft of the fire,} Left ye corrupt yourfelves, and make you a graven image, the fimilitude of any figure, the likenefs of male or female...
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