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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,... "
Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the Royal ... - Page 48
by Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1875
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Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volume 26

1756 - 704 pages
...aftion and force may be conveyed from one to another, il to me, (fays Sir Ifnac) fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity murt be cau' fed by aa agent acting cpnftantly according »' to certain laws." But fuppofing...
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Four Dissertations

Richard Price - 1777 - 554 pages
...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...competent faculty of " thinking, can ever fall into it." See tbeThird of the Four Letters from Sir Ifaac Ntwtsn to Dr. Bently, printed for Mr. Dodjley. ' '....
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 108

1858 - 620 pages
...one body may act upon another at a distance, through ' a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and ' ' through which their action and force...competent faculty ' of thinking, can ever fall into it.' The conviction which his conception of gravity impressed thus strongly on Newton's mind, is enforced...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 1

Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 528 pages
...another, through a vacuum, without the me" diation of any thing else, by and through which their ac" tion and force may be conveyed from one to another, is...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 in what manner one...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 1

Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 382 pages
...matter, so that one body may act on ano" ther, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, " by and through which their action and force...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 in what manner one...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volumes 1-2

Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 706 pages
...without the mediation of any thing else, " by and through which their action and force may be conveyed u from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity,...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 in what manner one...
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Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century ..., Volume 4

John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 934 pages
...that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force...competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws; but whether this agent...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volumes 1-2

Dugald Stewart - 1822 - 572 pages
...their action and " force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an ab" surdity, that Í believe no man who has, in philosophical matters,...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 in what manner one...
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 91

1823 - 832 pages
...that one body may act upon another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of something else, by and through which their action and force...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. ' (See Horseley's Newton, Vol. IV. page 438.) I shall conclude with the following pertinent observations...
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The theology of the early patriarchs, illustrated by an appeal to ..., Volume 1

Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 520 pages
...may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who had 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 ; but whether this agent...
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