 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1858 - 638 страници
...the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and i'orce 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." The conviction which his conception of gravity impressed thus strongly on Newton's... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1858 - 666 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... | |
 | Henri Édouard Schedel - 1858 - 508 страници
...the mediation of any thing eke, 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 acbmpetent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." (See Sir Isaac... | |
 | Samuel Lytler Metcalfe - 1859 - 658 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." (Third letter to Bentley, page 26.) It was truly observed by Bacon, that "the doctrines... | |
 | Samuel Lytler Metcalfe - 1859 - 670 страници
...anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is Jo me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." (Third letter to Bentley, page 26.) It was truly observed by Bacon, that " the... | |
 | Thomas Woods (M.D.) - 1860 - 134 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. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws,... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1862 - 566 страници
...without 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,...philosophical matters a competent " faculty of thinking, can ever fall into " it." Empty space ! it is a delusion. Between us and the sun, between us and the remotest... | |
 | Sir Henry Holland - 1862 - 576 страници
...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.' The conviction which his conception of gravity thus impressed on Newton's mind,... | |
 | 1862 - 542 страници
...without mediation of anything else by " and through which their action and " force may be iconveyed from one to " another, is to me so great an absurdity,...philosophical matters a competent " faculty of thinking, can ever fall into " it." Empty space ! it is a delusion. Between us and the sun, between us and the remotest... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1876 - 508 страници
...without the mediation of anything else, by and through which this 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;... | |
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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,... 
