 | 1806 - 504 pages
...hand. London, Mqrcji 24, 1806. EXTRACTS; 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... | |
 | 1830 - 622 pages
...Arguments in proof of a Deity. Loncl. 1756, 8vo. — The first letter commences with this paragraph : ' When I wrote my treatise about our ' system, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with consider' ing men, for the belief of a Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than... | |
 | 1809 - 604 pages
...undiscovered before me." MSS. Conduitt. Newton 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... | |
 | Thomas Rennell - 1819 - 220 pages
...letter to Dr. Ber.tley, he there Acknowledges the great end and purpose of all his labours. " When 1 wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considerate men for the belief of a Deity ; and nothing can rejoice me more, than... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 934 pages
...at the Bishop of Worcester's House, in Park 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... | |
 | Granville Penn - 1822 - 492 pages
...the action and interference of Deity. How 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,... | |
 | James Henry Monk - 1833 - 466 pages
...immortal work, and a disavowal of that intuitive 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... | |
 | James Henry Monk - 1833 - 466 pages
...immortal work, and a disavowal of that intuitive 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... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1833 - 764 pages
...immortal work, and a disavowal of that intuitive 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... | |
 | Edward William Clarke - 1835 - 288 pages
...wisest, and the most pious men, that ever laboured to enlighten and benefit mankind. " When," he says, " I wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considerate men for the belief of a Deity ; and nothing can rejoice me more, than... | |
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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. 
