| Johann Lorenz Mosheim - 1803 - 534 páginas
...to this elegant painter of minds. " In NEWTON, says be, this island " may boast of having produced the greatest and rarest genius " that ever arose for the ornament and instruction of the spc" cies. Cautious in admitting no principles, but such as were " founded in experiment... | |
| 1809 - 594 páginas
...great man must have possessed faculties very far removed indeed from the utmost to which the hunvm mind had ever before attained, or has since reached...rarest genius that ever arose for the ornament, and instruction of mankind. Specimens are also to be seen here of iron, tin, copper, and lead, such as... | |
| Johann Lorenz von Mosheim - 1810 - 534 páginas
...to this elegant painter of minds. " In Newton, says he, this island «' may boast of having produced the greatest and rarest genius " that ever arose for the ornament and instruction of the spe" cies. Cautious in admitting no principles, but such as were '* founded in experiment... | |
| Johann Lorenz Mosheim - 1811 - 512 páginas
...to this elegant painter of minds. " In Newton," says he " this island may boast of hating produeed the greatest and rarest genius that ever arose for the ornament and instruetion of the species. Cautious in admitting no prineiples, but auch as were founded in experiment... | |
| 1842 - 634 páginas
...the following just eulogium upon his character. " In Newton this island may boast of having produced the greatest and rarest genius that ever arose for the ornament and instruction of the species, in philosophical, astronomical, and mathematical knowledge ; cautious in... | |
| Johann Lorenz Mosheim - 1824 - 578 páginas
...new methods of investigating truth ; but the number he, " this island may boast of having produced the greatest and rarest genius that ever arose for the ornament and instruction of the species. Cautious in admitting no principle?, but such as were founded in experiment... | |
| Johann Lorenz von Mosheim - 1826 - 476 páginas
...to this elegant painter of minds. " In Newton (says he) this island " may boast of having produced the greatest and rarest genius '• that ever arose for the ornament and instruction of the species. " Cautious in admitting no principles, but such as were founded " in experiment;... | |
| 1834 - 602 páginas
...amongst his legal heirs. " In Newton," says the historian Hume, "this island may boast of having produced the greatest and rarest genius that ever arose for the ornament and instruction of the species in philosophical, astronomical, and mathematical knowledge ; cautious in... | |
| William Pinnock - 1835 - 518 páginas
...attraction or gravitation, now almost universally adopted. In NEWTON, England may boast of having produced the greatest and rarest genius that ever arose for the ornament and instruction of the human species. Cautious in admitting no principles but such as were founded on experiment... | |
| Edinburgh young men's society - 1842 - 110 páginas
...refer to Sir Isaac Newton, in whom, Hume himself acknowledges, this island may boast of having produced the greatest and rarest genius that ever arose for the ornament and instruction of the species, in philosophical, astronomical, and mathematical knowledge. Need we inform... | |
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