 | 1823 - 886 pages
...endowed with coloHrs, I would be understood to speak not philosophically and properly, but grossly, and according to such conceptions as vulgar people...disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that colour. For as sound, in a bell or musical string or other sounding body, is nothing but a trembling motion,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 828 pages
...Veronese, Van Dyck, and the rest of the good colour isU, have come nearest to nature. Dryden's Dufremey. The rays, to speak properly, are not coloured: in...disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that colour. fietcton's Oplia, Transparent substances, as glass, water, and air, when made very thin by being blown... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pages
...Veronese, Van Dyck, and the rest of the good colourisis, have come nearest to nature. Dryden's Dvfremlf. The rays, to speak properly, are not coloured: in...disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that mfcw. AYtrdm'i Of** Transparent substances, as glass, water, and lir, when made very thin by being... | |
 | John Fearn - 1830 - 366 pages
...to the " conceptions of vulgar people. For the rays, to speak " properly, are not coloured : In them is nothing else than " a certain power and disposition to stir up in us a sensa" tion of this or that colour." The violation of philosophy thus abjured by Newton is... | |
 | 1838 - 1014 pages
...endowed with colours I would be understood to speak not philosophically and properly, but grossly, and according to such conceptions as vulgar people...disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that colour ; for as sound in a bell or musical string or other sounding body is nothing but a trembling motion,... | |
 | 1833 - 632 pages
...ray ? A. It is taken not to be so: the ray, properly speaking, is not coloured. In rays of light, " there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that colour. For, as sound in a bell or musical string, or other sounding bodies, is nothing but a trembling motion... | |
 | Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1862 - 544 pages
...indued with colours, I would be understood to speak not philosophically and properly, but grossly, and according to such conceptions as vulgar people,...disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that colour. For as sound in a bell, or musical string, or other sounding body, is nothing but a trembling motion,... | |
 | 1862 - 540 pages
...indued with colours, I would be understood to speak not philosophically and properly, but grossly, and according to such conceptions as vulgar people,...disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that colour. For as sound in a bell, or musical string, or other souncjing body, is nothing but a trembling motion,... | |
 | sir Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1869 - 396 pages
...colours, I would be understood to speak not philosophically and properly, but grossly, and accordingly to such conceptions as vulgar people in seeing all...disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that colour. For as sound in a bell or musical string, or other sounding body, is nothing but a trembling motion,... | |
 | Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1870 - 514 pages
...colours, I would be understood to speak not philosophically and properly, but grossly, and accordingly to such conceptions as vulgar people in seeing all...disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that colour. For as sound in a bell or musical string, or other sounding body, is nothing but a trembling motion,... | |
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For the rays, to speak properly, are not coloured. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that colour. 
