 WHEN I wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity ; and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose.  The Life of Sir Isaac Newton - Página 256por Sir David Brewster - 1832 - 323 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1806
...EXTRACTS. LETTER from Siu ISAAC NEWTON to DR. BENTLEY. SIR, WHEN I wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with, considering men for the belief of a Deity; and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose. But if I have done the public... | |
 | 1809
...begins his first letter to Dr, Bentley, in 1692, thus ; '« When I wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find h useful for that purpose; But if I have done the pubHc any... | |
 | 1854
...words from his own pen, in a letter to Bentley : — " When I wrote my Tieatise about our system, I had an eye upon such principles as might work, with considering men, for the belief of a Deity ; and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose." The third was Bentley. From the... | |
 | John Nichols - 1822
...Street, Westminster. " SIR, Cambridge, Dec. 10, 1692. " When I wrote my Treatise about our System *, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose. But, if I have done the publick... | |
 | Granville Penn - 1822 - 460 páginas
...different was the proceeding of Newton ! who declared, " When I wrote my treatise about " our system, I had an eye upon such principles " as might work with considering men for the 100 CHAP. IX. PART I. " belief of a Deity1:' that is, an intelligent, interfering, and operating Deity.... | |
 | Granville Penn - 1825
...Newton ! who declared, " When I wrote my treatise about 1 See above, note to p. 105. " our system, / had an eye upon such principles as " might work with considering men for the belief " of a Deity1 :" that is, an intelligent, interfering, and operating Deity. Hence it was, that he taught:... | |
 | James Kennedy-Bailie, James Kennedy Bailie - 1827 - 274 páginas
...my treatise about our System," (Newton alludes here to his well known work De Systemate Mundi,) " I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity ; and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it . useful for that purpose. But if I have done the public... | |
 | James Henry Monk - 1833
...genius for which the world gave him credit: he says, "When I wrote my treatise about our System, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose. But if I have done the public... | |
 | James Henry Monk - 1833
...genius for which the world gave him credit : he says, " When I wrote my treatise about our System, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose. But if I have done the public... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1833 - 732 páginas
...genius for which the world gave him credit ; he says, " when I wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men, for the belief of a Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose. But if I have done the public... | |
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