 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 538 pages
...other attractive powers besides these. How these attractions may be performed I do not," says he, " here consider. What I call attraction may be performed...impulse, or by some other means unknown to me. I use the word here to signify only in general, any force by which bodies tend towards each other, whatsoever... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 pages
...their attraction. brown's Vulgar Erraurf. Attrition may be performed by impulse, or some other means; 1 use that word, to signify any force by which bodies tend towards one another. Nnuteni Ofticb. ' ». The power of alluring or enticing Setting the attraction of "my good parts aside,... | |
 | Daniel Ellis - 1811 - 396 pages
...of gravity, magnetism and electricity." " How these attractions may be performed," he continues, " I do not here consider. What I call attraction, may...by some other means unknown to me. I use that word here to signify only, in general, any force by which bodies tend towards one another, whatsoever be... | |
 | Daniel Ellis - 1811 - 396 pages
...gravity, magnetism and electricity/' " How these attractions may be performed," he continues, " Ido not here consider. What I call attraction, may be performed by impulse, or by some other meatte unknown to me. I use that word here to signify only, in general, any force by which bodies tend... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1818 - 594 pages
...the tangent was precisely such as his new hypothesis (for then it was simply an hypothesis) required. by impulse, or by some other means unknown to me. I use that word here to signify in general any force by which bodies tend towards one another, whatever be the cause.... | |
 | Thomas Gill (patent-agent) - 1822 - 564 pages
...inconsiderable support from what happens in the transfusion of blood. Experiments way, says Newton, " what I call attraction may be performed by impulse, or by some other means unknown to me. I use the word here to signify only, in general, any force by which bodies tend towards one another, whatever... | |
 | 1841 - 488 pages
...his philosophy, founded on a mistake as to this point. " ' What I call attraction,' he suggests, ' may be performed by impulse, or by some other means unknown to me. I use the word here to signify in general any force by which bodies tend toward* one another, whatever be... | |
 | 1824 - 884 pages
...and conformable to herself. How these attractions may be performed I do not here consider ; v, liât I call attraction may be performed by impulse, or by some other means unknown to me. I use that word here to signify only, in general, any force by which bodies tend towards one another, whatsoever be... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 852 pages
...sovereignty. South. Sermon xiv. 293. Attraction may be performed by impulse, or some other means ; I use that word, to signify any force by which bodies tend towards one another. Newton'i Opticlu. Attract, attracted to, the next in place, Form'd and impelled iu neighbour to embrace.... | |
 | Thomas Griffiths - 1846 - 462 pages
...bodies were held together by hooks, rings, points, and wedges. He says, " I use the word attraction to signify any force by which bodies tend towards one another, whatever may be the cause."—Optics, book iii., query 31. Explained the probable physical cause of the rainbow... | |
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I do not here consider. What I call attraction may be performed by impulse, or by some other means unknown to me. I use that Word here to signify only in general any Force by which Bodies tend towards one another, whatsoever be the Cause. 
