 | Francis William Upham - 1860 - 462 pages
...incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear out, or break in pieces, no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the beginning," seemed to be verified. For the truth of the atomic theory, though concerning particles... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - 1860 - 94 pages
...JlelatiTe Weights of the Ultimate Particles of Gaseous and other Bodies." CONSTITUTION OP ATOM* 41 no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first ereation," &e. To this argument, drawn from general physics, others of a similar kind have becn added... | |
 | Titus Lucretius Carus - 1864 - 452 pages
...Hear again what Newton 1. 1. p. 2GO says to illustrate this and the preceding sectiou 557 — 564, 'while the particles continue entire, they may compose...ages ; but should they wear away or break in pieces, the nature of things depending on them would be changed. Water and earth composed of old worn particles... | |
 | 1864 - 780 pages
...incomparably harder than any porous body compounded of them ; even so very hard as never to wear and break in pieces ; no ordinary power being able to...what God himself made one in the first creation." The unsearchable divisibility of matter ; the vain attempt of philosophy to approach — with all the... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1864 - 438 pages
...incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces : no ordinary power being able to divide what God made one in the first creation." It is noticeable how NEWTON, with his usual caution, advances this... | |
 | 1864 - 444 pages
...incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them— even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces. No ordinary power being able to divide what God made one in the first creation." Chemistry has also shown that it is constituted of particles possessing... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1867 - 1006 pages
...incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them; even so hard as never to wear or break to pieces ; no ordinary power being able to divide what...ages ; but should they wear away, or break in pieces, the nature of things depending on them would be changed. Water and earth composed of old worn particles... | |
 | Henry Lonsdale - 1867 - 336 pages
...incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them ; even so very hard as never to wear or break to pieces; no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation." CHAPTER X. THE ATOMIC THEORY FROM SIR ISAAC NEWTON TO JOHN DALTON. " To trace in Nature's most minute... | |
 | What - 1869 - 220 pages
...incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them ; even so very hard as never to wear or break to pieces ; no ordinary power being able to divide what...ages ; but should they wear away or break in pieces, the nature of things depending on them would be changed. Water and earth composed of old worn particles... | |
 | Thomas Clarke (M.D.) - 1870 - 228 pages
...are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them ; so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces ; no ordinary power being able 'to divide what God made one in the first creation." E. You must now tabulate Matter for me, if you please. R. As far as... | |
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... these primitive particles being solids are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces, no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation. 
