Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century: Consisting of Authentic Memoirs and Original Letters of Eminent Persons; and Intended as a Sequel to the Literary Anecdotes, Volumen4author, 1822 |
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... hath nothing in common with Mr. Hooke ; but a supposition that Ether is a medium sus- ceptible of vibrations ; of which supposition Mr. Newton saith he makes a quite different use ; Mr. Hooke supposing it light itself , which Mr. Newton ...
... hath nothing in common with Mr. Hooke ; but a supposition that Ether is a medium sus- ceptible of vibrations ; of which supposition Mr. Newton saith he makes a quite different use ; Mr. Hooke supposing it light itself , which Mr. Newton ...
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... hath of mine in his hands , and to take your receipt in discharge for the same . I hope you have finished the floor according to your mind ; and remain " Your most humble and most obedient servant , " SIR , ISAAC NEWTON . " London , Feb ...
... hath of mine in his hands , and to take your receipt in discharge for the same . I hope you have finished the floor according to your mind ; and remain " Your most humble and most obedient servant , " SIR , ISAAC NEWTON . " London , Feb ...
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... hath wholy rested on my shoulders ; nay I can manifest it sufficiently , that at least a full third part of the collection is myne , what from the Tower Records , where I spent 4 months about it , and from Sir Tho . Cotton's Library ...
... hath wholy rested on my shoulders ; nay I can manifest it sufficiently , that at least a full third part of the collection is myne , what from the Tower Records , where I spent 4 months about it , and from Sir Tho . Cotton's Library ...
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... hath cost this Society , and that the same be delivered to the President , in order to shew the same to his Majesty . That the Committee formerly appointed to consider of the present state of Chelsea College be desired to consider of ...
... hath cost this Society , and that the same be delivered to the President , in order to shew the same to his Majesty . That the Committee formerly appointed to consider of the present state of Chelsea College be desired to consider of ...
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... hath caused this decay , and left the remainder as it were lifeless , and without motion ; and the small remainder of life which is yet remaining hath been upheld by our weekly meetings , which also decayeth , so few appearing for want ...
... hath caused this decay , and left the remainder as it were lifeless , and without motion ; and the small remainder of life which is yet remaining hath been upheld by our weekly meetings , which also decayeth , so few appearing for want ...
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Página 56 - That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Página 61 - This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.
Página 56 - It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should without the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must be if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it.
Página 61 - For there are Three that bear record in Heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these Three are One. And there are Three that bear witness on Earth ; the Spirit, the Water, and the Blood, and these Three agree in one.
Página 16 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Página 51 - ... an opaque body like the planets, or the planets lucid bodies like the sun, how he alone should be changed into a shining body, whilst all they continue opaque, or all they be changed into opaque ones, whilst he remains unchanged ; I do not think explicable by mere natural causes, but am forced to ascribe it to the counsel and contrivance of a voluntary Agent.
Página 328 - Majesty, they would mentally include the health of the Prince and Princess of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family.
Página 828 - During the same time sixty thousand children have been born in America. From these data his mathematical head will easily calculate the time and expense necessary to kill us all, and conquer our whole territory.
Página 431 - ... gradually rising, perhaps from small beginnings, till its foundation rests in the centre, and its turrets sparkle in the skies ; to trace back the structure through all its varieties, to the simplicity of...
Página 50 - But if the matter was evenly disposed throughout an infinite space, it could never convene into one mass, but some of it would convene into one mass, and some into another, so as to make an infinite number of great masses, scattered at great distances from one another throughout all that infinite space.