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" From the principles he lays down, some " useful and entertaining conclusions are drawn." The first is as follows : " If time be no more than the succession of ideas and actions, however these may be accelerated or retarded, time will be just the same... "
Miscellaneous Thoughts on Men, Manners, and Things - Page 282
by David Hoffman - 1841 - 385 pages
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Miscellaneous Pieces, in Verse and Prose

Soame Jenyns - 1770 - 468 pages
...thinking and acting. For inftance, were the Earth, and all the Celeftial Bodies, to perform the fame Revolutions in one Day, which they now perform in...were all the Ideas, Actions, and Lives of Mankind haftened on in the fame proportion, the period of our Lives would not be in the leaft fhortened ; but'that...
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Miscellaneous Pieces, in Verse and Prose

Soame Jenyns - 1770 - 474 pages
...acting. For inftance, were the Earth, and all the Celeftial Bodies, to perform the fame Revo* lutions in one Day, which they now perform in a whole Year,...were all the Ideas, Actions, and Lives of Mankind haftened on in the fame' proportion, the period of our Lives would not be in the leaft (hortened ;...
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The European Magazine and London Review, by the Philological ..., Volume 1

1782 - 540 pages
...For iiiflance, Wer<- the earth and the celeftial bodies, to perform the fame revolutions in one dny, which they now perform in a whole year, and were all the .ideal, aftions, and lives of mankind halten_«d on in the fame proportion, the period of our lives...
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The Boston magazine

698 pages
...thinking and' afting. Forinflanre, were tlie earth' and all the celeflial bodies, to perform the fame revolutions in one day, which they now perform in a whole year, and were all the ideas, aftions and liven of mankind haftened on the fame proportion, the period of our lives would not be...
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The Works of Soame Jenyns ...: Including Several Pieces Never ..., Volume 3

Soame Jenyns - 1790 - 316 pages
...thinking and acting. For inftance, were the earth and all the celeftial bodies to perform the fame revolutions in one day, which they now perform in...were all the ideas, actions, and lives of mankind haftened on in the fame proportion, the period of our lives would not be in the leaft Ihortened ; but...
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Metaphysical Essays: Containing the Principles and Fundamental Objects of ...

Richard Kirwan - 1809 - 542 pages
...thinking and acting. For inftance ; " were the earth, and all the celeftial bodies, " to perform the fame revolutions in one day " which they now perform in...were all the ideas, actions, and lives of ** mankind, haftened on in the fame propor** tion ; the period of our lives would not be " in the leaft fhortened,...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 2

1820 - 404 pages
...principles he lays down, some " useful and entertaining conclusions are drawn." The first is as follows : " If time be no more than the succession of ideas and...the least shortened ; but that day would be exactly * Rev. x. 5. t Lord Rochester. equal to the present year : if in the space of seventy or eighty of...
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The Retrospective Review.., Volume 2

Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...principles he lays down, some " useful and entertaining conclusions are drawn." The first is as follows : " If time be no more than the succession of ideas and...the least shortened ; but that day would be exactly * Rev. x. 5. f Lord Rochester. equal to the present year : if in the space of seventy or eighty of...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 2

1820 - 406 pages
...principles he lays down, some " useful and entertaining conclusions are drawn." The first is as follows : " If time be no more than the succession of ideas and...the least shortened ; but that day would be exactly * Rev. x. 5. f Lord Rochester. equal to the present year : if in the space of seventy or eighty of...
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Materials for thinking, extracted from the works of ancient and modern ...

1837 - 352 pages
...rclates to beings so thinking and so acting. For instance, were the earth and and all the cclestial bodies to perform the same revolutions in one day...or eighty of these days a man was born, educated, or grown up, had exercised a profession, had seen his children come to maturity, his grand-children...
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