The Distinction Between Words Esteemed Synonymous: In the English Language, Pointed Out, and the Proper Choice of Them Determined. ... By the Rev. Dr. John Truslerauthor and sold, 1783 - 196 Seiten |
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Seite 19 - It is with refpect to vifion that I would make my obfervations on thefe words, which are very generally confounded by writers on optics. We fee an object clearly, whenever it is fufficiently illuminated to enable us to form a general idea of its figure ; but we fee it not diftinflly, till it be fo near that we can recognize all its parts. When we view a diftant tower, we fee it clearly, as foon as we perceive it to be a tower ; but we fee it not diftinflly, 'till...
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Seite 185 - ... figns bear to the motions of the foul, readily pafles with the world- as well-fkilled in divination. A .wife man, one who fees what will be the confequences of certain principles, and the effefts of certain caufes, may pafs with the people as having the knowledge of prediflion.
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