 | Francis Bacon - 1878 - 686 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 or three general principles of motion from phaenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow... | |
 | John Ogilvie - 1883 - 830 pages
...peerage.' Macaulay. To derive two or three central principles of motion from phenomena, and afterward to tell us how the , properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from those manifest principles, would be a gr iu philosophy. fvei 1. Footstep; print or impression of the... | |
 | John Ogilvie - 1883 - 834 pages
...George' (that is, rise in rank). Thackeray, ' To earn a garter or a .-/,,. in the peerage.' MaeoMlay. To derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterward to tell us how tlie properties ami actions of all corporeal things follow from those manifest... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1889 - 742 pages
...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 from those manifest principles, would be a very great step in philosophy, though the causes of those principles... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1890 - 352 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...phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties of all corporeal things follow from those manifest principles, would be a very great step in philosophy,... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1890 - 356 pages
...endowed with an occult specific quality, by which it acts and produces manifest effects, is to tell ns nothing; but to derive two or three general principles...phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties of all corporeal things follow from those manifest principles, would be a very great step in philosophy,... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1894 - 388 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...phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties of all corporeal things follow from those manifest principles, would be a very great step in philosophy,... | |
 | W. Sedgwick - 1896 - 308 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 or...properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from those manifest Principles, would be a very great step in Philosophy." — Newton, " Opticks," 3rd edition,... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1915 - 672 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...phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties of motion follow from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal... | |
 | D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson - 1917 - 826 pages
...us that a thing "is endowed with an occult specific quality, by which it acts and produces manifest effects, is to tell us nothing; but to derive two...three general principles of motion* from phenomena would be a very great step in philosophy, though the causes of these principles were not yet discovered."... | |
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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... 
