| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 438 páginas
...any writer before his time ever attained. While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the imperfections...philosophy, and thereby restored her ultimate secrets from that obscurity in which they had before lain, and in which, without his assistance, they would... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 518 páginas
...profoundly remarked by Mr. Hume, that " while Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed, at the same time, the imperfections...mechanical philosophy, and thereby restored her ultimate seerets to that obscurity in which they ever did, and ever will remain." In this way, his discoveries... | |
| John Davenport - 1839 - 520 páginas
...attained. While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he shewed at the same time the imperfections of the mechanical...obscurity in which they ever did and ever will remain." Numberless good geometricians and natural philosophers were at once improved by his discoveries, and... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 354 páginas
...seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time some of the imperfections of the mechanical philosophy ; and....obscurity in which they ever did and ever will ^remain." The remains of Sir Isaac Newton were interred in Westminster Abbey, where a magnificent monument is... | |
| David Hume - 1851 - 606 páginas
...lifetime, had ever before attained. While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the imperfections...obscurity, in which they ever did and ever will remain. He died in 1727, aged eightyfive. This age was far from being so favorable to polite literature as... | |
| John Gorton - 1851 - 636 páginas
...Wluie Newton seemed to draw off the veil from the mysteries of nature, he showed at the sann- lime the imperfections of the mechanical philosophy, and thereby restored her ultimate secrets from that obscurity ш which they had before lain, »nd in which, without bis assistance, they would... | |
| David Hume - 1854 - 600 páginas
...life-time, had ever before attained. While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the imperfections...obscurity in which they ever did and ever will remain. He died in 1727, aged 85. This age was far from being so favorable to polite literature as to the sciences... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 660 páginas
...profoundly remarked by Mr. Hume, that " while Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed, at the same time, the imperfections of the mechanical philosophy, and therehy restored her ultimate secrets to that obscurity in which they ever did, and ever will remain."... | |
| Robert Pollok - 1856 - 412 páginas
...attained. While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from the mysteries of nature, he showed at the game time the imperfections of the mechanical philosophy, and thereby restored her ultimate secrets from that obscurity in which they had lain, and in which, without his assistance, they would probably... | |
| David Hume - 1858 - 606 páginas
...draw off the veil from some of 'he mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the impe^ec'lons of the mechanical philosophy ; and thereby restored...secrets to that obscurity, in which they ever did end ever will remain. He died in 1727, aged eightyfive. This »o;e was far from being so favorable... | |
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