 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Bibliography - 1756 - 622 pages
...diftance through a Vacuum, without the mediation of any thing elfe, by and through which their aftion and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man who has, in philofophical matters, a competent faculty... | |
 | Books - 1760 - 556 pages
...opinion is againft me. Sir Ifaac Newton fays, " Gravity muft be *' caufed by an agent, acting contrary, according to certain " laws ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, " I have left to the confideration of my Readers." Here Sir Ifaac plainly allows, that matter is an... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1766 - 226 pages
...another at a Diftance, through a faraum, without the Mediation of any Thing elfe, by and through whith their Action and Force may be conveyed from one to another, is to Sir ifaac Newton fo great an Abfordity, that he believes no Man, who has, in philofophital Matters,... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Bibliography - 1767 - 608 pages
...diitance through a -vacuum, without the mediation of any thing elfe, by and through which their aiuon and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me fo great an abfurdity that I believe no man who has in philofophical matters a competent faculty of... | |
 | Richard Price - Apologetics - 1772 - 482 pages
...may aft upon another f at a diftance through a vacuum, without the '' mediation of any thing elfe, by and through which •' their action and force may be conveyed from one f* io another, is to me fo great an abfurdity that I f believe no man who h"s in phijofophical matters... | |
 | Richard Price - Theology, Unitarian - 1777 - 500 pages
...body may act upon another at a dHhinc* " through a vacuum, without the mediation of any " thing elfe, by and through which their action and '* force may be conveyed from one to another, is to " me fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man who *« has in philofophical matters a competent faculty... | |
 | Richard Price - Apologetics - 1777 - 554 pages
...difrance " through a vacuum^ without the mediation of any " thing elfe, by and through which their anión and " force may be conveyed from one to another, is to " me fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man who " has in philofophical matters a competent faculty... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1756 - 704 pages
...diftance thro* a vacuum, with« ' out the mediation of any thing elfe, by and ' thro' which their aition and force may be ' conveyed from one to another, is to me, ' (fays Sir Ifaac] fo great an abfurdity, that ' I believe no man, who ha» in philosophical ' matters... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1813 - 564 pages
...fo that one body may act on another, " through a vacuum, without the mediation of any " thing elfe, by and through which their action and " force may be conveyed from one to another, is to " me fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man " who has, in philofophical matters, a competent " faculty... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1813 - 520 pages
...fo that one body may act on another, " through a vacuum, without the mediation of any " thing elfe, by and through which their action and " force may be conveyed from one to another, is to *' me fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man " who has, in philofophical matters, a competent *' faculty... | |
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else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused... 
