The Annals of Philosophy, Volume 6

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Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy., 1815

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Page 372 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...
Page 372 - ... even so very 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. While the particles continue entire, they may compose bodies of one and the same nature and texture in all ages ; but should they wear away or break in pieces, the nature of things depending on them would be changed.
Page 309 - That no apothecary shall be allowed to recover any charges claimed by him in any Court of Law, unless such apothecary shall prove on the trial that he was in practice as an apothecary prior to, or on the said 1st day of August, 1815, or that he has obtained a certificate to practise as an apothecary. % That the said Master, Wardens, and Society of Apothecaries...
Page 372 - And therefore, that nature may be lasting, the changes of corporeal things are to be placed only in the various separations and new associations and motions of these permanent particles...
Page 308 - Persons applying to them, for the purpose of ascertaining the skill and abilities of such Person or Persons in the Science and Practice of Medicine, and his or their fitness and qualification to practise as an Apothecary.
Page 390 - Rajah, who offered 150,000 dollars, two large war brigs with their guns and ammunition, together with a certain number of great guns, and a quantity of powder and shot. The Rajah, however, refused to deprive his family of so valuable...
Page 389 - It is shaped like an egg, with an indented hollow near the smaller end. It is said to be of the finest water.
Page 99 - ... of humour ; which, with my notes on the piece itself, may perhaps account in some sort for the variety of opinions which people of acknowledged taste have formed concerning it. Mr. Gray had not (in my opinion) either in his conversation or writing much of what is called pure humour ; it was always so much blended either with wit, fancy, or his own peculiar character, that it became equivocal, and hence not adapted to please generally : it had more of the manner of Congreve than Addison ; and...
Page 279 - This is the result arrived at by Newton and which, as we have already remarked, was regarded by him and is now generally received as the theoretical formula for the space through which a body must fall to acquire the velocity of sound. But it is evident from our demonstration that the velocity due to that space, instead of being the velocity of any assignable pulse, is simply a limit below which no pulse can be propagated in an elastic fluid whose subtangent is H...
Page 307 - The Court of Examiners chosen and appointed by the Master, Wardens, and Assistants, of the Society of Apothecaries, of the City of London, in pursuance of a certain Act of Parliament, " For better Regulating the Practice of Apothecaries throughout England and Wales...

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