 | Francis Bowen - 1845 - 72 страници
...their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that 1 believe no man, who has in 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."... | |
 | 1847 - 900 страници
...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 in philosophical matters has a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fell into." (Vide, Harper's... | |
 | 1847 - 28 страници
...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 in philosophical matters has a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.' This passage... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1848 - 628 страници
...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 in philosophical matters has a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." This passage... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1849 - 500 страници
...the mediation of any thing else, by and through wlu'ch 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."... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1849 - 488 страници
...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."... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1851 - 544 страници
...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." This language is not too strong, for the truth of the hypothesis is literally inconceivable.... | |
 | Samuel Elliott Coues - 1851 - 340 страници
...and inherent in it, and this is the reason why I desire that you would not ascribe it to me. It is so great an absurdity that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent way of thinking, can ever fall into it." * So even those may dis* On this subject, Stewart remarks... | |
 | Zachariah Allen - 1852 - 820 страници
...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." If the electro-dynamic theory be not truthful, it will serve to explain the observed... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 536 страници
...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." With this passage I so far agree, as to allow that it is impossible to conceive... | |
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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,... 
