| William Hales - 1800 - 128 pages
...Philofophy is to argue from pbœncmena, without feigning hypöthefe», and to deduce caufes from effefts, till we come to the VERY FIRST CAUSE, which certainly is not material." Ha:c brevitèr effata et delibata tantùm, fufiùs exponere, atque ex philofophiu prima... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 560 pages
..." The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena, without feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects till we come to...mechanism of the world, but chiefly to resolve these and surh like questions : Whence is it that Nature does nothing in vain; and whence arises all that ordtr... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 582 pages
...The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from " phenomena, without feigning hypotheses, and to deduce " causes from effects till we come to...certainly is not mechanical ; and not only to unfold the me" chanism of the world, but chiefly to resolve these and such " like questions : Whence is it thai... | |
| Edward William Grinfield - 1818 - 634 pages
...Newton, as quoted by Professor Stewart, " is to argue from phenomena, without feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects, till we come to...but chiefly to resolve these and such like questions : — Whence is it that Nature does nothing in vain, and whence arises all that order and beauty which... | |
| Duncan Mearns - 1818 - 212 pages
...according to Newton's view of the subject, ' is to argue from phenomena, ' without feigning hypotheses, and to deduce > causes from effects, till we come to the very 1 first Cause, w hie h certainly is not mechanical? It may seem superfluous to argue the validity of... | |
| Johann Jakob Brucker - 1819 - 618 pages
...: The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from, phenomena, without feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects till we come to...very first cause,, which certainly is not mechanical. Therefore natural effects of the same kind are to be ascribed to the same cause. Those properties of... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 348 pages
...The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phe" nomena, without feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from " effects till we come to...but chiefly to resolve these and such like questions : Whence is it " that Nature does nothing in vain ; and whence arises all that order " and beauty which... | |
| 1821 - 490 pages
...world—" The main business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses; and to deduce causes from effects, till we come to...not only to unfold the mechanism of the world, but chirjly to resolve these and such like questions—Whence is it that nature does nothing in vain ?... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 706 pages
...philosophy is to argue from phe•• iHimena, without feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes i'rom " effects till we come to the very first cause, which...and not only to unfold the mechanism of the world, •• bat chiefly to resolve these and such like questions : Whence is it •• that . Vi/iwrt doet... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1822 - 572 pages
...The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenome" na, without feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects •" till we come...unfold the mechanism of the world, but chiefly to re" solve these and such like questions: Whence is it that Nature does '' nothing in vain ; and whence... | |
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