 | George Grant - 1849 - 318 pages
...mentions that when he wrote Ms treatise about our system, namely, the Third Book of the Prlacipia, "he had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief rf a deity, and he expressed his happiness that it has Ifea found useful for that purpose. In answering... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1852 - 440 pages
...genius for which the world gave him credit ; he says, " when I wrote my treatise about our system, 1 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... | |
 | David Brewster - 1855 - 592 pages
...him, 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. " But if I have done." he... | |
 | Josiah Miller - 1870 - 272 pages
...much indebted. In one of these Newton says that when he wrote the third book of the ' Principia' ' lie had an eye upon such principles as might work, with considering men, for the belief of a Deity.' On one occasion, in 1714, having dined with M. Deslandes, author of ' A Critical History of Philosophy,'... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1878 - 1070 pages
...1692,) Sir Isaac (then Mr.) Newton remarks, that in composing the Third Book of the Principia, ' he ! he expresses his happiness that it has been found useful for that purpose.' The modesty of this great... | |
 | 1878 - 1074 pages
...1692,) Sir Isaac (then Mr.) Newton remarks, that in composing 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.' The modesty of this great... | |
 | 1879 - 912 pages
...assistance. In reply Newton returned the celebrated four Bentley letters which begin with these words ; " 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... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1879 - 668 pages
...At the beginning of a letter of Newton to Dr. Bentley, written in 1692, are these words: — "When 1 wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon...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... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1879 - 668 pages
...At the beginning of a letter of Newton to Dr. Bentley, written in 1692, are these words: — "When 1 wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon...Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose. But if 1 have done the public any service in this way, it is due to nothing... | |
 | Charles Croslegh - 1884 - 212 pages
...to Dr. Bentley in 1692, Neuiton says, that, when he wrote 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." He is truly described in the epitaph in the Abbey :— " Naturse, antiquitatis, S. Scripturse Sedulus,... | |
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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. 
