This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
| identifier | question |
|---|---|
| A26637 | s.n.,[ London? |
| A36174 | He cometh unto the Disciples and findeth them a sleep, and faith unto Peter, what could ye not watch with me one hour? |
| A36174 | Is it a small thing in our eyes, y t our principal Congregations& Head- townes, should be so sadly bereaved, as they are at this day? |
| A36174 | Obj, If the Stream be an irradiation of the Sun, how comes it to be conspicuous and visible to us? |
| A41979 | What else( I pray) doth God by these Signs seek to shew, than his Wrath to an Impenitent World? |
| A01933 | And in sooth what other can we expect from this fumish age, then a furious, but soone exhaling rage, rather then courage? |
| A01933 | Are they not turned into Tabacco pipes? |
| A01933 | Are they not with that outlandish weed vanished into smoake? |
| A01933 | But how few in so many after ages( two thousands of yeeres) haue taken possession of this heauenly heritage? |
| A01933 | By what Primum Mobile this Comet( keeping so iust a line) was whirled about the earth euery foure and twenty houres? |
| A01933 | Come Lesbia, let vs liue and loue; What though grim Sires vs reproue? |
| A01933 | Did not our Fathers finde the Comet in 1558. to be a signe of much happinesse to the persecuted Protestants in England, and Germany? |
| A01933 | How few Caesars and Alphonses haue patronized this noble science? |
| A01933 | How often is he rapt vp in the contemplation of the starres? |
| A01933 | I will not aske where are the bowes and arrowes wherewith our fathers conquered France, and releened Spaine: but where are our Muskets? |
| A01933 | Some haue doubted, if this long streame of light had touched the earth, whether it would haue caused any combustion? |
| A01933 | What inclination it kept to this our habitable Orb? |
| A01933 | What was the true line of his motion in the aetheriall Ocean? |
| A01933 | Where are our English valour and courage? |
| A01933 | Who may not from these smoakie parents feare a fumish generation, whose courage may perhaps be soone inflamed, but sooner quenched? |
| A01933 | Will you haue my lines the comfortable raies of Phoebus, more true then those Delphicke Oracles? |
| A01933 | Will you not haue this Comet an infortunate Helene, and wofull messenger of tempest? |
| A44321 | But to return to Tycho''s Hypothesis, if that be true, why did not the Comet again appear after a certain space of time? |
| A44321 | No answer can be given until another question be first answered; and that is, What is the place of Comets, and what is their distance from the Earth? |
| A44321 | Of what substance its body, beard, and blaze is? |
| A44321 | Other Queries were concerning its density and rarity, its mutability or immutability; that is, whether it dissolved and wasted or not? |
| A44321 | Through what parts of the universe it moved, and how far distant it was at several times? |
| A44321 | To the Query, Of what magnitude the Body, Coma, and Blaze of Comets may be? |
| A44321 | Whether above or below the Moon,& c. Whether it wasts, and is dispersed and consumed? |
| A44321 | Whether in any of those lines it moved equal or unequal spaces in equal times? |
| A44321 | Whether it be collected or generated when it first appears? |
| A44321 | and dissipated or destroyed when it disappears; or whether the several distances of it do not make that appearance? |
| A44321 | and next, of what magnitude each of those parts appear, and of what real magnitude they are? |
| A44321 | and whether that may not give some account of the appearance of so many Comets about Aries? |
| A44321 | or whether it lasts and endures for a longer time? |
| A44321 | whether in a straight or bended line? |
| A44321 | whether it participated of gravity or levity? |
| A44321 | whether it were fluid or solid? |
| A44321 | whether straight or bended,& c. What kind of motion it was carried with? |
| A37977 | 26, 27? |
| A37977 | And so here, it may be justly asked, Are future Evils produced by Comets as by their proper Causes? |
| A37977 | And what is there in one of these Houses more than in another that signifies these distinct Natures and Properties? |
| A37977 | And who are they that defend the contrary? |
| A37977 | And( in the same book) he gives this Reason of it, Quàm multa praeter Hos( i. e. Cometas) per secretum eunt, nunquam humanis oculis orientia? |
| A37977 | And, Secondly, How comes it to pass that this Stream or Blaze is always opposite to the Sun? |
| A37977 | Are they of Terrestrial or Celestial Matter? |
| A37977 | But how can we certainly know that Comets are Appointed for such purposes? |
| A37977 | But if any one shall still urge the Question, and ask me, Where are we told that these Comets and Prodigies are Divine Signs? |
| A37977 | But if it be so, how happens it that the Flame is not seen on both sides or ends, but onely on the hinder part of the Comet? |
| A37977 | But seeing a Flame by its natural Lightness tends upwards, why is not the Tail of every Comet exactly erect? |
| A37977 | But then how often do they feed those who consult them with Lies? |
| A37977 | But what can be more imaginary and fancyfull? |
| A37977 | Ca n''t a Star appear, but it must be for their sakes? |
| A37977 | First then, what Philosophy can give an account of the Flaming Brush which issues from them? |
| A37977 | First, how came they to have any such thing at all? |
| A37977 | For to what purpose are these unusual Spectacles shewn by God to the World? |
| A37977 | How comes that part which is next to the Sun to be always without a Train or Stream? |
| A37977 | How great think you was it when it was seen to extend it self in length about 50, nay, sometimes 60 Degrees of our Hemisphere? |
| A37977 | How idly and incoherently then do they discourse who deny all Presage of Comets, because they do not presently feel the Effects of them? |
| A37977 | How large must it needs be when, being situated not far from the Horizon, it almost reached with its Tail to the Zenith, or Mid- Heaven? |
| A37977 | How often do these Barchocabs, Sons of the Stars, prove Barcoziba''s, Sons of a Lye and Imposture? |
| A37977 | How often may they be confuted in their Predictions of Rain, Snow, Frost, Winds,& c? |
| A37977 | If it be asked Why God gives Warning of future Calamities by such Harbingers? |
| A37977 | If they are Divine Signs, where hath God told us so? |
| A37977 | Is there any Reason why we of this Island should be concerned? |
| A37977 | Lastly, may it not be thought that they portended his violent and Tragical End, the just Guerdon of his bloudy Life? |
| A37977 | Let us then ask these Men of Skill, What were Comets before they appeared to us in this shape, and under this Name and Character? |
| A37977 | Neque enim omnia Deus humanis oculis nota fecit Quota pars operis tanti nostris oculis committitur? |
| A37977 | Now it may deservedly be asked, What is the Reason of this strange Figure? |
| A37977 | Or suppose War to be the consequence of a Comet, who knows not that if one party is vanquished, the other overcomes? |
| A37977 | Since the Figure of all Stars is Globular or Sphaerical, what causes a Comet( if it be a Star) to be of a long Figure? |
| A37977 | Then, Suppose there were such Matter in the Aethereal Regions, yet if this reflexion were from the Aether, why are we so long without Comets? |
| A37977 | They will make a Head of Hair a Constellation, as they did Berenice''s, and what will they not then doe with the Shagged Locks of a Comet? |
| A37977 | Thus Tullius Cicero, Gustavus Adolphus, late King of Sweden, Archbishop Laud and Oliver Cromwell( are they not well suited by him?) |
| A37977 | To what end are these strange Shapes set before us? |
| A37977 | Well then, granting them to be Substances, what Kind of ones are they, Spirit or matter? |
| A37977 | What Reason can be given why the first House should be the Horoscope, and why Judgment must be made there of the Birth of the Child? |
| A37977 | What are the Materials of these great Streaming Bodies? |
| A37977 | What contrary Accounts do Philosopher give of them? |
| A37977 | What is the Reason they are so concerned? |
| A37977 | What makes those differ from these? |
| A37977 | What saith another in his Relation of a Comet which appeared before the Death of Iohannes Tzimiscas the Emperour of the East? |
| A37977 | What saith that Modern Meteorologist? |
| A37977 | What strange Tidings doth this Messenger from above arrive with? |
| A37977 | What then becomes of their Horary Questions, which descend even to the most particular and Personal Affairs? |
| A37977 | What work would this man make with the Nativity of the worthy Dr. Henry More, if he could get a sight of it? |
| A37977 | Wherefore the great Question is, whether the Heavenly Bodies have an Influence on the Mind and Thoughts, the Free- will and Determinations of Men? |
| A37977 | Whether the Apparition of Comets be the Sign of approaching Evil? |
| A37977 | Which of these two are they, Earth or Aether? |
| A37977 | Who can tell where its Influence is to light? |
| A37977 | Who knows not that these strange Flames appear most commonly in the shape of Military Weapons, and Instruments of War and Bloud? |
| A37977 | Who will not say that they fore told the World of his cruel, inhumane and barbarous Exploits, void of all Compassion and Remorse? |
| A37977 | Who would not think that the new discoveries in the Heavens must needs make some Alteration in the Judgments made from them? |
| A37977 | Why are the Rays and Splendour of a Comet carried further than that of other Stars? |
| A37977 | Why do not all other Stars shoot out such Streams as this? |
| A37977 | Why may they not light on truth by chance? |
| A37977 | Why sends it forth such stragling Beams? |
| A37977 | Would not one imagine that he might as well have said, to solve all, that the Head of the Comet had Brains, and knew when it was to Face about? |
| A37977 | and the Son of Man that thou visitest him? |
| A37977 | why such Members are under the Dominion of such particular Constellations, and not others? |
| A37977 | why the Head is governed by this Sign, and the Neck by that? |