 | Regnault (Père, Noël) - 1731 - 412 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Eeles - 1771 - 244 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Stephen Peter Rigaud - 1838 - 208 pages
...at the end of the Optics. " To 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 " from those manifest principles, would be a very " great step in Philosophy, though the causes of those "... | |
 | William Whewell - 1840 - 606 pages
...species of things is endowed with an occult specific quality by which it acts and produces manifest effects, is to tell us nothing : but to derive two...properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from these manifest principles, would be a great step in philosophy, though the causes of those principles... | |
 | 1841 - 530 pages
...species of things is endowed with an occult specific quality, by which it acts and produces manifest effects, is to tell us nothing : but to derive two...properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from these manifest principles, would be a great step in philosophy, though the causes of these principles... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1850 - 654 pages
...species of things is endow'd with an occult specifick quality by which it acts and produces manifest effects, is to tell us nothing: but to 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 - 656 pages
...nothing: but to derive two or ihree general principles of motion from phaenomcna, and afterwards lo tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from Ihose manifest principles, would be a very great step in Philosophy, though the causes of Ihose principles... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1851 - 306 pages
...effects, is to tell us nothing; but to derire two or three general principles of motion from phsenomena, 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... | |
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... to derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, 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... 
