Story
It is storied of the brazen colossus in Rhodes, that it was seventy cubits high.
Bp. Wilkins
Cited as Bp. Wilkins. — 22 quotations
Collaterally
These pulleys . . . placed collaterally.
Considerable
It is considerable, that some urns have had inscriptions on them expressing that the lamps were burning.
Contrivable
A perpetual motion may seem easily contrivable.
Eyesight
Josephus sets this down from his own eyesight.
Finger
A piece of steel three fingers thick.
Incomparable
Delights incomparably all those corporeal things.
Incredulous
A fantastical incredulous fool.
Insignificant
Laws must be insignificant without the sanction of rewards and punishments.
Narrow
The Jews were but a small nation, and confined to a narrow compass in the world.
Natural
I call that natural religion which men might know . . . by the mere principles of reason, improved by consideration and experience, without the help of revelation.
Preponderate
That is no just balance in which the heaviest side will not preponderate.
Probable
I do not say that the principles of religion are merely probable; I have before asserted them to be morally certain.
Reasonable
By indubitable certainty, I mean that which doth not admit of any reasonable cause of doubting.
Snatch
They move by fits and snatches.
Superadd
The strength of any living creature, in those external motion, is something distinct from, and superadded unto, its natural gravity.
That
A judgment that is equal and impartial must incline to the greater probabilities.
I have shewed before, that a mere possibility to the contrary, can by no means hinder a thing from being highly credible.
Topic
Contumacious persons, who are not to be fixed by any principles, whom no topics can work upon.
Transplace
It [an obelisk] was transplaced . . . from the left side of the Vatican into a more eminent place.
Trial
Repeated trials of the issues and events of actions.
Urn
A rustic, digging in the ground by Padua, found an urn, or earthen pot, in which there was another urn.