| Isaac Newton - God - 1756 - 50 pages
...Frame of this Syftem to an intelligent Agent. You fometimes fpeak of Gravity as eflential and inherent to Matter. Pray do not afcribe that Notion to me ;...know, and therefore would take more Time to confider of it. I fear what I have faid of Infinites, will feem obfcure to you ; but it is enough if you underftand,... | |
| Almanacs, English - 1766 - 226 pages
...Ifaac would not have him aferibe that Nation to him ; fur that the Caufe cf Gravity is what he did not pretend to know ; and therefore would take more Time to confider of it. Sir ifaac maintains, that Infinites, wten confidered abfolotely without any Reftrittion or Limitation,... | |
| William Seward - Anecdotes - 1797 - 752 pages
...H " You " You fometimes," adds this great Philofopher> " fpeak of gravity as efTential and inherent to " matter. Pray do not afcribe that notion to me ; " for the caufe of gravity is what I do not pre" tend to know, and therefore would take more " time to confider it. " The hypothefis of matter's... | |
| 1802 - 308 pages
...thought.* " You foraetimes," adds this great Philofopher, " fpeak of gravity as eflential and inherent to matter. Pray do not afcribe that notion to me ;...and therefore would take more time to confider it." '- • i — ? * "Genie c'ejl It travail," fays M. de Buffon, "Genius is the repeated effort of thinking... | |
| John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1822 - 934 pages
...of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me; for the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it. " 1 fear what I have said of infinites will seem obscure to you j but it is enough... | |
| Isaac Preston Cory - 1833 - 520 pages
...Gravity as essential, and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me : for the cause of Gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider." p. 20. not be exactly justified in rejecting it at once with the contemptuous expressions,*... | |
| Isaac Preston Cory - Philosophy - 1833 - 590 pages
...Gravity as essential, and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me : for the cause of Gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider." p. 20. not be exactly justified in rejecting it at once with the contemptuous expressions,*... | |
| Richard Bentley - 1838 - 580 pages
...gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray, do not ascribe that notion to me ; for the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it. I fear what I have said of infinites will seem obscure to you ; but it is enough if... | |
| Richard Bentley - Atheism - 1838 - 572 pages
...gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray, do not ascribe that notion to me ; for the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it. I fear what I have said of infinites will seem obscure to you ; but it is enough if... | |
| Richard Bentley - Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742 - 1842 - 896 pages
...gravity as essential and 20 inherent to matter. Pray, do not ascribe that notion to me ; for the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it. I fear what I have said of infinities will seem so obscure to you ; but it is enough... | |
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