 | 1798 - 992 sider
...irony; he would speak plainly and directly : — Newton was a Christian ; Newton, whose mind had burst from the fetters cast by nature upon our finite conceptions ; Newton, whose science was truth, and tlie foundation of whose knowledge of it-was philosophy — not those vi»io'nary and arrogant presumptions... | |
 | David Simpson - 1803 - 446 sider
...this new flood of light. " But the subject is too a\vful for irony. I will speak plainly and directly. NEWTON was a Christian ! NEWTON, whose mind burst...fetters cast by nature upon our finite conceptions ceptions— NEWTON, whose science was truth, arid the foundation of whose knowledge of it was philosophy... | |
 | David Simpson - 1809 - 410 sider
...this new flood of light. " But the subject is too awful for irony. I will speak plainly and directly. Newton was a Christian ! Newton, whose mind burst...was philosophy : not those visionary and arrogant presumptions, which too often usurp its name, but philosophy resting upon the basis of mathematics,... | |
 | Thomas Erskine (1st baron.) - 1810 - 478 sider
...plainlyand directly. Newton was aChristian ! — Newton, whose mind burst forth from the fetters fastened by nature upon our finite conceptions — Newton,...was philosophy — not those visionary and arrogant presumptions, .which too often usurp its name, but philosophy resting upon the basis of mathematics,... | |
 | David Simpson - 1810 - 422 sider
...But the subject is too awful fo* irony. I will speak plainly and directly. NEWTON/ was a Christianl NEWTON, whose mind burst forth from the fetters cast...conceptions — NEWTON, whose science was truth, and the foimdatoin of whose knowledge! of it was- philosophy: Not those visionary and arrogant presumptions... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - 1810 - 470 sider
...this new flood of light.—But the subject is too awful for irony. J will speak plainly and directly. Newton was a Christian! —Newton, whose mind burst forth from the fetters fastened by nature upon our finite conceptions — Newton, whose science was truth, and the foundation... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 sider
...this new flood of light.— But the subject is too awful for irony. I will speak plainly and directly. Newton was a Christian ! Newton, whose mind burst...forth from the fetters cast by nature upon our finite conceptions-^-Newton, whose science was truth, and the foundation of whose knowledge of it was philosophy... | |
 | James Ridgway - 1813 - 470 sider
...plainlyand directly. Newton was nChristian! —Newton, whose mind burst forth from the fetters fastened by nature upon our finite conceptions ;—- Newton,...truth, and the foundation of whose knowledge of it was philosophy—not those visionary and arrogant presumptions, which too often Usurp Us name, but philosophy... | |
 | Donald Fraser - 1814 - 164 sider
...and directly :— Newton was a Christian ; Newton, whose mind had burst the fetters cast by nature on our finite conceptions, Newton whose science was truth,...knowledge of it was philosophy, not those visionary, arrogant presumptions which too often usurped its name, but philosophy resting upon the basis of mathematics,... | |
 | Joshua P. Slack - 1815 - 340 sider
...awful for irony. I will speak plainly and directly. Newton was a Christian ! Newton whose mind bursts forth from the fetters, cast by nature upon our finite...conceptions — Newton, whose science was truth, and the foundations of whose knowledge of it was philosophy : not those visionary and arrogant preaumptions,... | |
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Christians, I cannot help lamenting that Newton had not lived to this day, to have had his shallowness filled up with this new flood of light. But the subject is too awful for irony. I will speak plainly and directly. Newton was a Christian ! Newton... 
