 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - Liczba stron: 566
...the hope, I fly thither 4 ; accordingly we1 lie there to-night. is endowed with an occult specific quality by which it acts and produces manifest effects is to tell us nothing." The term "occult quality" was suitable to denote that the cause of tlio effects was beyond our cognisance,... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1890 - Liczba stron: 352
...same ideas. He said : — "To tell us that every species of things is endowed with an occult specific quality, by which it acts and produces manifest effects,...derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties of all corporeal things follow from those manifest... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1890 - Liczba stron: 356
...same ideas. He said : — "To tell us that every species of things is endowed with an occult specific quality, by which it acts and produces manifest effects, is to tell ns nothing; but to derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1894 - Liczba stron: 388
...same ideas. He said : — "To tell us that every species of things is endowed with an occult specific quality, by which it acts and produces manifest effects,...derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties of all corporeal things follow from those manifest... | |
 | W. Sedgwick - 1896 - Liczba stron: 308
...SQUARE, LONDON. PREFACE. " To tell us that every species of things is endowed with an occult specific quality by which it acts and produces manifest effects...derive two or three general Principles of Motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1915 - Liczba stron: 672
...years have been rejected. To tell us that every species of things is endowed with an occult specific quality by which it acts and produces manifest effects,...derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties of motion follow from phenomena, and afterwards... | |
 | D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson - 1917 - Liczba stron: 826
...or of doing "work." For, as Newton said, to tell us that a thing "is endowed with an occult specific quality, by which it acts and produces manifest effects,...derive two or three general principles of motion* from phenomena would be a very great step in philosophy, though the causes of these principles were not... | |
 | 1869 - Liczba stron: 526
...philosophy of science : — " To tell us that every species of things is endowed with an occult specific quality, by which it acts and produces manifest effects,...derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow... | |
 | 1869 - Liczba stron: 1022
...philosophy of science : — " To tell us that every species of things is endowed with an occult specific quality, by which it acts and produces manifest effects,...derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow... | |
 | John Earman, John J. Stachel - 1977 - Liczba stron: 482
...discover'd. For these are manifest Qualities, and their Causes only are occult. ... To tell us that every Species of Things is endow'd with an occult specifick Quality by which it acts ... is to tell us nothing; But to derive two or three general Principles of Motion from Phaenomena,... | |
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But to derive two or three general Principles of Motion from Phaenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the Properties and Actions of all corporeal Things follow from those manifest Principles, would be a very great step in Philosophy, though the Causes... 
