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1 II | open thine eyes to that light which enlightens all mankind, 2 III | themselves, until at last this light spread itself in England 3 III | to apply thyself to that light of Christ which shineth 4 IV | revealed in a ridiculous light. He was the only son of 5 XII | air, the laws of motion, light, the number of our planets, & 6 XIII| He everywhere takes the light of physics for his guide. 7 XIV | Cartesian declares that light exists in the air; but a 8 XIV | motion, and in the nature of light. He admitted innate ideas, 9 XV | system of the world, to light, to geometrical infinities; 10 XVI | move and the manner how light acts. Galileo, by his astronomical 11 XVI | Isaac Newton has made on light are equal to the boldest 12 XVI | reflections and refractions of light in drops of rain. And his 13 XVI | mistaken in the nature of light; that he had not the least 14 XVI | forward by the other. That light is certainly darted by the 15 XVI | by the sun; in fine, that light is transmitted from the 16 XVI | astonishment had he been told that light does not reflect directly 17 XVI | anatomise a single ray of light with more dexterity than 18 XVI | assistance of the prism, that light is a composition of coloured 19 XVI | their pores are large, that light reflects on our eyes from 20 XVI | paper, which reflects the light when dry, transmits it when 21 XVI | thus divided, as it were, light into its elements, and carried 22 XVI | reflection and refraction of light.~But all these wonders are 23 XVI | the vibrations or fits of light which come and go incessantly, 24 XVI | and which either transmit light or reflect it, according 25 XVI | the proportion in which light acts on bodies and bodies 26 XVI | bodies and bodies act on light.~He saw light so perfectly, 27 XVI | bodies act on light.~He saw light so perfectly, that he has 28 XVI | wholly from the nature of light.~For this reason he invented 29 XVII| to convey at least some light into that of the fables 30 XIX | these lines:~"Earth lie light on him, for he Laid many 31 XXI | famous nobleman in no other light than as the man of pleasure, 32 XXI | their death in no other light than as they were writers, 33 XXII| sullied the fair face of light, Down to the central earth, 34 XXII| objects in a dim and confused light may have sunk the credit 35 XXIV| subject in a new and uncommon light. The necessity of saying 36 XXIV| cannot afford us the least light.~With regard to the French