 ... supposes the soul to be of the nature of a piano-cylindrical speculum, or lookingglass ; that the plain side was made by God Almighty, but that the devil afterwards wrought the other side into a cylindrical figure. The plain side represents objects...  The Miniature, a Periodical Paper - Strana 244podľa Solomon Grildrig - 1805 - Počet stránok 368Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Solomon Grildrig - 1805 - Počet stránok 390
...cylindrical figure. The plain side represents obje£U cc just as they are; but the cylindrical side by the rules of Catoptrics, must needs represent true objects...be the foundation of the malicious lie., the second of the miraculous. Some have reduced the whole body of lies into two divisions^ which are commonly... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - Počet stránok 496
...cylindrical figure. The plain side represents objects just as they are ; and the cylindrical side, by the rules of catoptrics, must needs represent true objects false, and false objects true : but the cylindrical side being much the larger surface, takes in a greater compass of visual rays.... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - Počet stránok 568
...looking-glass. . . . The plain side represents objects just as they are ; and the cylindrical side, by the rule of catoptrics, must needs represent true objects false, and false objects true. In his second chapter he treats of the nature of political lying ; in the third of the lawfulness of... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - Počet stránok 570
...looking-glass. . . . The plain side represents objects just as they are ; and the cylindrical side, by the rule of catoptrics, must needs represent true objects false, and false objects true. In his second chapter he treats of the nature of political lying ; in the third of the lawfulness of... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - Počet stránok 508
...cylindrical figure. The plain side represents objects just as they are ; and the cylindrical side, by the rules of catoptrics, must needs represent true objects false, and false objects true ; but the cylindrical side being much the larger surface, takes in a greater compass of visual rays.... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - Počet stránok 508
...cylindrical figure. The plain side represents objects just as they are ; and the cylindrical side, by the rules of catoptrics, must needs represent true objects false, and false objects true ; but the cylindrical side being much the larger surface, takes in a greater compass of visual rays.... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1886 - Počet stránok 402
...cylindrical figure. The plain side represents objects just as they are ; and the cylindrical side, by the rules of catoptrics, must needs represent true objects false, and false objects true; but the cylindrical side being much the larger surface, takes in a greater compass of visual rays.... | |
 | Arthur Waugh - 1897 - Počet stránok 364
...cylindrical figure. The plain side represents objects just as they are ; and the cylindrical side, by the rules of catoptrics, must needs represent true objects false, and false objects true ; but the cylindrical side being much the larger surface, takes in a greater compass of visual rays.... | |
 | 1917 - Počet stránok 266
...cylindrical figure. The plain side represents objects just as they are ; and the cylindrical side, by the rules of catoptrics, must needs represent true objects false and false objects true ; but the cylindrical side, being much the larger surface, takes in a greater compass of visual rays."... | |
 | Hugh Walker - 1925 - Počet stránok 348
...cylindrical figure. The plain side represents objects just as they are; and the cylindrical side, by the rules of catoptrics, must needs represent true objects false, and false objects true; but the cylindrical side, being much the larger surface, takes in a greater compass of visual rays.... | |
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