 | 1877 - 564 pages
...i.) gives the following extract from Sir Isaac Newton : — "All things considered.!! seems probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion... | |
 | Titus Lucretius Carus - 1851 - 528 pages
...Epicurus, referring their origination, however, to an Almighty power. " It seems probable," says he, " that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid,...hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes, figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end... | |
 | John Anderson - 1851 - 402 pages
...a philosophy to explain the theory of the earth — that "All things considered, it seems probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable particles, of such sizes, figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space,... | |
 | John Lord - 1852 - 360 pages
...as any other upon this subject. It is as follows : — "All things considered, it appears probable that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moving particles : of such size and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - 1855 - 556 pages
...Query, subjoined to his Treatise on Opties, fourth edition, p. 350) :— " It seems to me probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid,...and figures, and with such other properties, and in auch proportions to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them ; and that the primitive... | |
 | Robert Hare - 1855 - 484 pages
...in the second, as 2,500,000 to 1. Newton's definition of material particles was as follows : 1772. " It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning,...formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion... | |
 | Robert Hare - 1855 - 556 pages
...second, as 2,500,000 to 1. Newton's definition of material particles was as follows : 1772. "It secms probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion... | |
 | Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1856 - 340 pages
...being satisfied with such as are not usually "divided. Newton's well known words are these : — " It seems probable to me that God in the beginning...figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which He formed them ; and that these primitive... | |
 | James David Forbes - 1856 - 218 pages
...i. Newton's conjecture is expressed in these words : — " All things considered, it seems probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid,...massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of snch sizes, figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1857 - 446 pages
...it " probable that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them." These ultimate particles... | |
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All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most... 
