 | Regnault (Père, Noël) - 1731 - 412 pagine
...Things is endowed with an occult fpectfick Quality, by which it acts and produces manifeft Effefts, is to tell us nothing { but to derive two or three general Principles of Motion front Phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the Properties and Action; of all corporeal Things follow... | |
 | Jacques Rohault - 1735 - 342 pagine
...Qualities put a ~ftop to tbe Improvement of natural Pbibfopby, and therefore oflattTears have been rejeSed, To tell us that every Species of Things is endowed with an occult Specified Quality by fitiei it alls and products manifeft CHAP. CHAP.. XII. Qffucb Motions as are commonly... | |
 | Henry Eeles - 1771 - 244 pagine
...things is endowed with an. occult V^ec-ific quality, by which if acts and produ' ces manifeft effeds,. is to tell, us nothing ; * but to derive two. or three...general principles * of motion from phenomena, and- afterward^ *^tO tell us how the properties and actfons of ' all corporeal things follow from thofc... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 924 pagine
...one man b -- Cometh a more heinous offender than another. Periint. 7. Progression ; act of advancing. To derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell STE A '•• • -/. rf too I hare, a cursed she, Who rdes my hen-peck 'd sire, and ordm me. Dryi,*.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 842 pagine
...By Marlbro' passed, the props and stepi were made Sublimer yet to raise his queen's renown. Prior. To derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how th« properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from those manifest principles, would be... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1850 - 660 pagine
...Phil. nat. p. 676. — Го tell us that every species of things is endow'd with an occult specifick quality by which it acts and produces manifest effects,...derive two or three general principles of motion from phaenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1850 - 662 pagine
...Phil. nat. p. 676. — To tell us that every species of things is endow'd with an occult specifick quality by which it acts and produces manifest effects, is to tell us nothing: hut to derive two or Ihrec general principles of motion from phaenomena, and afterwards to tell us... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1851 - 306 pagine
...gravitas revera eyistat et agat secundum leges a nobis expositas" (Newton, Principia Phil. Nat. p. 676). " To tell us that every species of things is endowed with an occult specifick quality, by which it acts and produces manifest effects, is to tell us nothing; but to derire... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1852 - 734 pagine
...Principia Phil. Nat. p. 676). "To tell us that every species of things is endowed with an occult speciftck quality, by which it acts and produces manifest effects,...derive two or three general principles of motion from phsenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow... | |
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... and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from those manifest principles, would be a very great step in philosophy, though the causes of those principles were not yet... 
