 | Granville Penn - 1822 - 492 sider
...the action and interference of Deity. How different was the proceeding of Newton ! who declared, " When I wrote my treatise about " our system, I had...principles " as might work with considering men for the 100 CHAP. IX. PART I. " belief of a Deity1:' that is, an intelligent, interfering, and operating Deity.... | |
 | Granville Penn - 1825 - 450 sider
...Newton ! who declared, " When I wrote my treatise about 1 See above, note to p. 105. " our system, / had an eye upon such principles as " might work with considering men for the belief " of a Deity1 :" that is, an intelligent, interfering, and operating Deity. Hence it was, that he taught:... | |
 | James Wright - 1827 - 146 sider
...Newton, in his letter to Dr. Bentley, " I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considerate men for the belief of a Deity; and nothing can rejoice...purpose. But if I have done the public any service in this way, it is due to nothing but industry tmd patient thought." t Remarks on Scepticism, page... | |
 | David Brewster - 1831 - 328 sider
...mentions that when he wrote his treatise about our system, viz. the Third Book of the Principia, " he had an eye upon such principles as might work, with considering men, for the belief of a Deity, and he expresses his happiness that it has been found useful /for that purpose. In answering the first... | |
 | Edward William Clarke - 1835 - 288 sider
...wisest, and the most pious men, that ever laboured to enlighten and benefit mankind. " When," he says, " I wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considerate men for the belief of a Deity ; and nothing can rejoice me more, than to find it useful... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1842 - 474 sider
...Richard Bentley. CAMBRIDGE, Deeeml. 10, 1692. SIR, WHEN I wrote my treatise about our système, 10 I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the beleife of a Deity ; and nothing can rejoyce me more than to find it useful for that purpose. But if... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1842 - 896 sider
...Richard Bentley. CAMBRIDGE, Decemb. 10, 1692. SIR, WHEN I wrote my treatise about our système, 10 I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the beleife of a Deity ; and nothing can rejoyce me more than to find it useful for that purpose. But if... | |
 | 1843 - 534 sider
...those general principles by which the phenomena were explained and proved. " When I wrote (says Newton) my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon such...work with considering men for the belief of a Deity." Newton began with the being of God ; he asserted that all natural philosophy led up to God (deDeo ex... | |
 | 1845 - 334 sider
...mentions that when he wrote his treatise about our system, viz. the Third Book of the Principia, " he had an eye upon such principles as might work, with considering men, for the belief of a Deity, and he expresses his happiness that it has been found useful for that purpose. In answering the first query... | |
 | John Tudor - 1847 - 434 sider
...those general principles by which the phenomena were explained and proved. " When I wrote (says Newton) my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon such...work with considering men for the belief of a Deity." Newton began with the being of God ; he asserted that all natural philosophy led up to God (de Deo... | |
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When I wrote my Treatise about our System *, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose. 
