FOR 
oe the Hebrew, 3 3 as is evident from “a Letter to'a 
Bifhop on t the Writings and Difcoveries of Hlutchinfon,” 
and which contains the cleareft fyftematic view of t 
authot’s pele tenets ever yet publithe ew 
“ Thoughts concerning natural aud revealed Religion,” and 
‘© Reflections oa Infideli lity ;”’ La whole of “_ have been 
ume, Bie 1750+ Tis 
ou- 
s, 8vo. London Magazine for the year #747. And 
No eed Didionnaire Hiltorique 
Forses, in Geography, a town Ly pone in the circle 
.of aa 8 miles S. mf ve Bud 
s Jflands, ells in the South Pacific 
Pres oe 5 ea "om Bol t Head, a pa on the 
N. ee oaft of New Holland. S. lat 12° 
Fren 
the iea-Lervice when he w 
n ITI, 
ook up his Seiten near 
ey a Forbin was highly re- 
‘garded by his country for pee: and diligence in the dif- 
charge of his dut He was generous and genie 
‘Go oing to court to return thanks for a reward which the 
‘king had beftowed upon him, he took et to difplay 
pe — of ee arth, the famou 
minifter, that he rarely m 
his ceurt. oom was aah of * Memoirs,”? in 2 yo 
3 
FORCADO, or Rio vE ae aa in Geography, a 
iver of Africa, which rifes far inland to the N.N.E., with 
many windings, in moft places ae ~~ wide, but of depth 
that allows only veffels which even or cae sag 
avater. It runs into the Atlantic, 4 45 miles 5,S.h. fi 
the river Formofa, N. 
FORCALQUIER, 
Franc 
f 
Poeun Carcarwm, a er 
rtment 
fairs, contains 2,539, and the canton 9,418 inhabitants, on 
a territo ory of 2474 kiliometres, i in 14 communes. N. lat. 
43° 57! E. long. §° 51/. 
Pi RCAS, a town of Walachia; 3 miles N. of Cara- 
"FORC E, La, a tewn of si ania in the department 
the Dordo ne, on the De ; the chief trade 
which confifts in aia grain, and wine; 6 miles W. of 
Bergerac. 
Force 
n Mechanics. The nature of force being entirely 
ou it can only -be defined by its:effe&s. Wy atever 
FOR 
is 
proportional to the force; an i othefi ‘oft highly ah 
e, but not eafily LT 
compound idea, arifing from betw 
= employed and {pace dened. Ifa ee A, fappofed 
material point, move uniformly, and without changing its 
ay te from one point a to another 4, the line ad is the 
o 
rs) 
y thefe {paces can 
ompared, either by their heing "epreed. or 
related es us in fome ftandard meafure with which w 
acquainted. In the fame manner, the time in which cach in 
8 nature, 
convince 
at le aft that. fince 
earth’s farface 
would be fenfibly affected by the motion of the earth, that 
isy that the effect of a given force would v vary very mu uch 
padangsete of the earth’s motion. ‘effe As of the fame 
fince no variation 
oa of force to o comprehend the rea- 
oning on which the above conclufion is obtained, we m 
m fuppofe tw dies moving upon one ftraight line with 
equal. velocities ; and that by i 
pr itively coe in a ftate of repofe. It is evident that the 
re defcribed by the body in confequence of its primitive 
‘his law, and ie Le Ori inertiay which expreffes the ten- 
dency of a body to perfevere in a ftate either of reft or 
otion, may be-confidered as derived from obfervation ae 
experiment. They are the moft fimple and natu at 
be imagined, and are fufficient to ferve as a bafis for the whole 
{cience of mechanics. 
The direétion of a ate is the ftraight line which | ‘it 
tends to make a rt 
Conceiving two - foes 4 to. ak on.a matcrial point, seed is 
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