 | Granville Penn - 1825 - 450 pages
...Newton ! who declared, " When I wrote my treatise about 1 See above, note to p. 105. " our system, / had an eye upon such principles as " might work with considering men for the belief " of a Deity1 :" that is, an intelligent, interfering, and operating Deity. Hence it was, that he taught:... | |
 | James Kennedy Bailie - 1827 - 586 pages
...wrote my treatise about our System," (Newton alludes here to his well known work De Systemate Mundi,) " I had an eye upon such principles as might work with...Deity ; and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it . useful for that purpose. But if I have done the public any service this way, it is due to nothing... | |
 | James Wright - 1827 - 146 pages
...Newton, in his letter to Dr. Bentley, " I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considerate men for the belief of a Deity; and nothing can rejoice me more, than to find it useful for that purpose. But if I have done the public any service in this way, it is due to nothing... | |
 | David Brewster - 1831 - 328 pages
...mentions that when he wrote his treatise about our system, viz. the Third Book of the Principia, " he had an eye upon such principles as might work, with considering men, for the belief of a Deity, and he expresses his happiness that it has been found useful /for that purpose. In answering the first... | |
 | James Henry Monk - 1833 - 466 pages
...immortal work, and a disavowal of that intuitive genius for which the world gave him credit : he says, " When I wrote my treatise about our System, I had an...Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose. But if I have done the public any service this way, it is due to nothing... | |
 | James Henry Monk - 1833 - 466 pages
...immortal work, and a disavowal of that intuitive genius for which the world gave him credit: he says, "When I wrote my treatise about our System, I had...Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose. But if I have done the public any service this way, it is due to nothing... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1833 - 764 pages
...immortal work, and a disavowal of that intuitive genius for which the world gave him credit ; he says, " when I wrote my treatise about our system, I had an...Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose. But if I have done the public any service this way, it is due to nothing... | |
 | Edward William Clarke - 1835 - 288 pages
...wisest, and the most pious men, that ever laboured to enlighten and benefit mankind. " When," he says, " I wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considerate men for the belief of a Deity ; and nothing can rejoice me more, than to find it useful... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1836 - 774 pages
...immortal work, and a disavowal of that intuitive genius for which the world gave him credit ; he says, " when I wrote my treatise about our system, I had an...Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose. But if I have done the public any service this way, it is due to nothing... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1838 - 578 pages
...Reverend Dr. Richard Bentley, at the Bishop of Worcester's house, in Park-street, Westminster. SIR, WHEN I wrote my treatise about our system, I had an...Deity ; and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose. But if I have done the public any service this way, it is due to nothing... | |
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WHEN I wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity ; and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose. 
