 | Bela Bates Edwards, Edwards Amasa Park - 1858
...its origin in no other way than by the purpose and command of an intelligent and powerful Being. He governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as the Lord of the universe." The eminent piety of Pascal is well known. Many of Boyle's Dissertations convey trains of thought and reasoning... | |
 | William Whewell - 1858 - 370 pages
...have its origin no other way than by the purpose and command of an intelligent and powerful Being, who governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as the Lord of the Universe ; who is not only God, but Lord and Governor.' When we have advanced so far, there yet remains one... | |
 | 1868
...its origin in no other way, than by the purpose and command of an intelligent and powerful Being. He governs all things ; not as the soul of the world, but as the Lord of the Universe. He is not only " God," but " Lord," or Governor. We know Him only by His properties and attributes,... | |
 | John Goodsir - 1868
...immediate relation which they have to the "intelligent and powerful Being who," in the words of Newton, " governs all things — not as the soul of the world, but as the Lord of the universe; who is not only God, but Lord and Governor." 4 It is also essential, for the legitimate study of the... | |
 | john g. macvicar, d.d. - 1868
...valuable of all the works that were ever given to Science. Referring to God, he says — " This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all ; and on account of His dominion He is wont to be called Lard God, xamxgdriag, or Universal... | |
 | Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker, Whitwell Elwin, William John Courthope - Literary Criticism - 1871
...Warbuton are from the scholium to the Principi.i, where Newton adds, "God governs all things, not as a soul of the world, but as the Lord of the universe. The Godhead of God is his dominion, a 369 That, changed through all, and yet in all the same, Great in... | |
 | Religion - 1840
...its origin in no other way than by the purpose and command of an intelligent and powerful Being. He governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as the Lord of the universe." The eminent piety of Pascal is well known. Many of Boyle's Dissertations convey trains of thought and reasoning... | |
 | Morris Kline - Mathematics - 1964 - 512 pages
...comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all. Joseph Addison's 'Hymn' framed Newton's argument in poetical terms: The spacious firmament... | |
 | Sir Isaac Newton, A. Rupert Hall, Marie Boas Hall - Biography & Autobiography - 1962 - 415 pages
...General Scholium, Newton seems to deny such a conception, writing as he does of God as a being who ' governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all'; but there is no true contradiction. He meant that God was not merely a passive spirit,... | |
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This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont to be called Lord God... 
