| Isaac Newton - Optics - 1730 - 432 pages
...incomparably harder than any porous Bodies compounded of them ; even fo very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces ; no ordinary Power being able to divide what God himfelf made one in the firft Creation. While the Particles continue entire, they may compofe Bodies... | |
| Robert Boyle - 1738 - 788 pages
...incomparably harder " than any porous bodies compounded of them ; " even fo hard, as never to wear, or break in " pieces ; no ordinary power being able to " divide what God himfelf made one in the " firil creation. While thefe particles eon" rinue entire, they may compofe... | |
| Andrew Baxter - Philosophy - 1745 - 446 pages
...incomparably harder than any porous badies compounded of them ; even fo very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces : no ordinary power being able to divide what God himfelf made one in the firft creation. While the particles continue entire, they may compofe bodies... | |
| Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - Eighteenth century - 1794 - 538 pages
...are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so hard as never to wear or break in pieces ; no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself himself made one in the first creation. While these particles," says he, " continue entire, they may... | |
| Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 434 pages
...incomparably harder than any porous bodies compofed of them ; even fo very hard as never to wear or break in pieces ; no ordinary power being able to divide what God himfelf made one at the urit creation. While tbs Ccibcfion. thf -particles continue entire, tlwy may... | |
| William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 726 pages
...other power being able to divide what God made one in the first creation. While these corpuscles remain entire, they may compose bodies of one and the same...ages ; but should they wear away, or break in pieces, the nature of tilings depending on them would be changed ; water and earth, composed of old worn particles,... | |
| William Nicholson - 1809 - 734 pages
...are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even ю hard as ncver to wear or break in pieces ; no ordinary power being able to...God himself made one in the first creation. While these particles rontiuuc entire, they may compose bodies of one and the same nature and texture in... | |
| William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 700 pages
...are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so hard as never to wear or break in pieces ; no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the fint creation. While these particles continue entire, they may compose bodies of one and the same nature... | |
| Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 824 pages
...incomparably harder than any porous bodies compofed of them ; even fo very hard as never to wear or break in pieces ; no ordinary power being able to divide what God himfelf made one at the firft creation. While the particles continue entire, they may compofe bodies... | |
| Encyclopaedias, John Millard - Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1813 - 712 pages
...are iucomparably harder, than any porous bodies compounded of theui, even so hard as never to wear or break in pieces ; no ordinary power being able to...divide what God himself made one in the first creation. The essential properties of matter, are solidity, divisibility, mobility, and inertia, or a state of... | |
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