| John Aikin - 1808 - 730 pages
...gravity, and of fermentation, to which almost all the motion we meet with in the world is- owing. It is probable, that God in the beginning formed matter...hard, impenetrable moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other preperties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the... | |
| 1810 - 506 pages
...ness may be reckoned the property of all uncompounded matter, &c. All " these things considered, it is probable, that God in the beginning formed matter...solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, &c. These primitive par" tides being solid, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded... | |
| 1815 - 514 pages
...Dalton has referred to the following observations of Sir Iiaac Newton : — " It seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid,...impenetrable, move-able, particles, of such sizes and figures, anJ with such other properties, and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the... | |
| 1815 - 520 pages
...Daltqn has referred to fhe following observations of Sir Isaac Newton : — " It seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, mpveable, particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion... | |
| 1815 - 508 pages
...1)alton has referred to the following observations of Sir Isaac Newton :— " It seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, raoveable, particles,of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion... | |
| 1818 - 512 pages
...excellent, philosopher, in enumerating the principles of nature, says : " It seems probable to me, that God in the beginning formed matter in solid,...hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the... | |
| L. Murray - 1821 - 620 pages
...With regard to the constituent parts of the earth, '' it seems probable," Says Sir Isaac Newton, " that God in the beginning formed matter in solid,...hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the... | |
| Granville Penn - 1822 - 480 pages
...Halt! They are these : "It seems probable to me, (said " the wise, sober, and circumspect Newton,) " that GOD, in the beginning, formed matter, in " .solid,...impenetrable, moveable " particles, of such sizes and figures, and with " such other properties, and in such proportions " to space, as most conduced... | |
| 1824 - 414 pages
...Newton on the same subject? "It seems probable to me (said the wise, sober, and circumspect Newton,) that God in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, nr.oveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions... | |
| John Mason Good - 1826 - 536 pages
...from the first of these high ornaments of our country. " All things considered," says Sir Isaac, " it seems probable that God, in the beginning, formed...hard, impenetrable, moveable particles ; of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such propor* 6 tion to space, as most conduced... | |
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