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" You sometimes speak 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. "
Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons: Chiefly of the Present and Two Preceding ... - Page 322
by William Seward - 1798
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Four Letters from Sir Isaac Newton to Doctor Bentley: Containing Some ...

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,...
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The British Palladium: Or, Annual Miscellany of Literature and ..., Volume 13

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,...
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Supplement to the Anecdotes of Some Distinguished Persons, Chiefly of the ...

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...
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The New England Quarterly Magazine, Volume 2

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...
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Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century ..., Volume 4

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...
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Metaphysical inquiry into the method, objects and result of ancient and ...

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,*...
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Metaphysical Inquiry Into Method, Objects, and Result of Ancient and Modern ...

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,*...
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The works of Richard Bentley, collected and ed. by A. Dyce, Volume 3

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...
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Sermons Preached at Boyle's Lecture: Remarks Upon a Discourse of Free ...

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...
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The correspondence of Richard Bentley [ed. by C. Wordsworth].

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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