 | Richard Price - 1777 - 554 ページ
...which their adion and " force may be conveyed from one to another, is to " me fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man who " has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of " thinking, can ever fall into it." See tbeThird of the Four Letters from Sir Ifaac Ntwtsn to Dr. Bently, printed for... | |
 | 1865 - 530 ページ
...their action and force may be conveyed to one another, is to him so great an absurdity that he believes no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into." not essential to the solution of that prohlem that either the exact nature of the... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 528 ページ
...the me" diation of any thing else, by and through which their ac" tion and force may be conveyed from one to another, is " to me so great an absurdity,...philosophical matters, a competent faculty of " thinking, can ever fall into it." With this passage I so far agree, as to allow that it is impossible to conceive... | |
 | 1865 - 846 ページ
...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...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it Gravity must be caused by an agent, acting constantly according to certain laws;... | |
 | 1865 - 458 ページ
...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...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent, acting constantly according to certain laws;... | |
 | 1874 - 1060 ページ
...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...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." Roger Cotes, who was Newton's successor in the chair of mathematics and natural... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1845 - 534 ページ
...without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws."... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 940 ページ
...without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ;... | |
 | John Playfait - 1822 - 462 ページ
...without the mediation of any thing 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, in philosophical matters, has a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." (Neivtoiu Opera,... | |
 | John Playfair - 1822 - 464 ページ
...without the mediation of any thing 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, in philosophical matters, has a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." (Nervtoni Opera,... | |
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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,... 
