 | David Brewster - Physicists - 1831 - 328 pages
...December the 9th, 1675, he observes, " I was so persecuted with discussions arising from the publication of my theory of light, that I blamed my own imprudence...substantial a blessing as my quiet, to run after a shadow." CHAPTER V. e of Newton in supposing that the Improvement of Refracting Telescopes was hopeless —... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - Biography - 1833 - 584 pages
...was," he afterwards wrote to Leibnitz, " so persecuted with discussions arising from the publication of my theory of light, that I blamed my own imprudence...substantial a blessing as my quiet, to run after a shadow." It was, perhaps, the remembrance of these inconsiderate objections of Huygens, that afterwards inclined... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - Biography - 1833 - 584 pages
...was," he afterwards wrote to Leibnitz, " so persecuted with discussions arising from the publication of my theory of light, that I blamed my own imprudence...substantial a blessing as my quiet, to run after a shadow." It was, perhaps, the remembrance of these inconsiderate objections of Huygens, that afterwards inclined... | |
 | Lives - 1833 - 588 pages
...was," he afterwards wrote to Leibnitz, " so persecuted with discussions arising from the publication of my theory of light, that I blamed my own imprudence...substantial a blessing as my quiet, to run after a shadow." It was, perhaps, the remembrance of these inconsiderate objections of Huygens, that afterwards inclined... | |
 | Edmund Lodge - Great Britain - 1835 - 288 pages
...blamed my own imprudence," said he, adverting to this subject in a letter written some time after, " for parting with so substantial a blessing as my quiet, to run after a shadow." And in another, of later date, he says, " Philosophy is such a litigious lady, that ¡i man had as... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 pages
...of the game year, he remarks : " I was so persecuted with discussions arising from the publication of my theory of light, that I blamed my own imprudence...substantial a blessing as my quiet, to run after a, shadow." Nor did bis anxieties, arising from the spleen of his enemies, terminate here. He had, indeed, been... | |
 | Willson Cryer - 1842 - 60 pages
...once observed to a correspondent, "I was so persecuted with discussions arising from the publication of my theory of light, that I blamed my own imprudence...substantial a blessing as my quiet, to run after a shadow." Some French writers also unworthily misrepresented Newton's character ; Bossuet charged him with wishing... | |
 | Child rearing - 1845 - 334 pages
...December the 9th, 1675, lie observes, " 1 was so persecuted with discussions arising from the publication of my theory of light, that I blamed my own imprudence...substantial a blessing as my quiet to run after a shadow." CHAPTER V. Mistake of Newton in supposing that the Tmprovemenf nf Refract ing Telescopes was Iwpelcss... | |
 | Great Britain - 1846 - 670 pages
...matters of philosophy." And again, " I was so persecuted with discussions arising from the publication of my theory of light, that I blamed my own imprudence...substantial a blessing as my quiet to run after a shadow." The researches on the colours of thin plates, and the explanation known by the name of the Theory of... | |
 | William Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 pages
...course of the same year, he remarks, " I was so persecuted with discussions arising from the publication of my theory of light, that I blamed my own imprudence...substantial a blessing as my quiet, to run after a shadow." Nor did his anxieties, arising from the spleen of his enemies, terminate here. He had, indeed, been... | |
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I was so persecuted with discussions arising out of my theory of light, that I blamed my own imprudence for parting with so substantial a blessing as my quiet, to run after a shadow. 
