 | 1798 - 764 páginas
...taught hard flecl to гиш, from its place, and rivet itfelf on the magnet; it is the fame difpofuion, which impels the light ftraw to attach itfelf firmly...gives every fubftance in nature, a tendency toward anoiher, and an inclinación forcibly direcled to a determinate point.' Thcfe notions are vague, indeed,... | |
 | 1798 - 542 páginas
...the light straw to attach itself firmly "on amber; it is this quality, which gives every " substance in nature a "tendency toward another, " and an inclination forcibly directed to a determi" nate point." These notions are vague, indeed, and unsatisfactory ; but permit me to ask, whether... | |
 | 1799 - 730 páginas
...the celeflial fpheres ; and thou wilt not find a corpufcle deftitute of that natural attraftability ; the very point of the firft thread, in this apparently...determinate point." Thefe notions are vague, indeed, and unfatisfaftory ; but permit me to afk, whether the lail paragraph of Newton's incomparable work goes... | |
 | Asiatic Society of Bengal - 1807 - 504 páginas
...the light straw to attach itself firmly " on amber: it is this quality which gives every " substance in nature a tendency toward another, " and an inclination forcibly directed to a derermi" nate point." These notions are vague, indeed, and unsatisfactory ; but permit me to ask, whether... | |
 | Quintin Craufurd - 1817 - 416 páginas
...the light straw to attach itself firmly on amber ; it is this quality, which gives every substance in nature a tendency toward another, and an inclination forcibly directed . to a determined point.' These notions are vague, indeed, and unsatisfactory ; but permit me to ask, whether... | |
 | Sir William Jones - 1824 - 336 páginas
...impels the light straw to attach itself firmly on amber: it is this quality which gives every substance in nature a tendency toward another, and an inclination forcibly directed to a determinate point." These notions are vague, indeed, and unsatisfactory; but, permit me to ask, whether the last paragraph... | |
 | Thomas Morell - 1827 - 614 páginas
...impels the light straw to attach itself firmly on amber ; it is this quality which gives every substance in nature a tendency toward another, and an inclination forcibly directed to a determinate point." " These notions," remarks the learned author of the Dissertation on the Philosophy of the Hindoos,... | |
 | Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1856 - 340 páginas
...impels the light straw to attach itself to the amber ; it is the quality, which gives every substance in nature a tendency toward another, and an inclination forcibly directed to a determinate point." CHAPTER V. FROM LUCRETIUS TILL THE DECAY OF ALCHEMY. EGYPT seems to have attained to a knowledge of... | |
 | Henry Lonsdale - 1867 - 336 páginas
...impels the light straw to attach itself to the amber ; it is the quality which gives every substance in nature a tendency toward another, and an inclination forcibly directed to a determinate point." It would appear that the orthodox priesthood of the Hindoos objected to this atomic doctrine, as too... | |
 | John Porter Brown - 1868 - 432 páginas
...impels the light straw to attach itself firmly to amber ; it is this quality which gives every substance in nature a tendency toward another, and an inclination forcibly directed to a determinate point.' " From the preceding extracts of this learned scholar, and those of the first chapter of the present... | |
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... perceived in heavenly or in terrestrial bodies: it is a disposition to be attracted which taught hard steel to rush from its place and rivet itself on the magnet : it is the same disposition which impels the light straw to attach itself firmly on... 
