 | William Bingley - Animal behavior - 1803 - 524 pages
...The motions of the planets can be ascertained, their distances measured, and their periods assigned. The Mathematician can demonstrate with the most decisive...communicating motion to it ; and he can ascertain, if he chuses to do it, with the most accurate precision, what must be the exact amount of the motion... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 562 pages
...marvellous, 'the mathematician can demonfirate, with the molt decifive certainty, that no fly can alight on this globe which we inhabit, without communicating motion to it; and he can alcerlain, with the molt accurate precifion, if so he chose to do (by the bye this sine qua non part... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1805 - 558 pages
...' the- mathematician can demonlîrate, with the moll decilive certainty, that no fl\ can alight on this globe which we inhabit, without communicating motion to it; and he can a/certain, with the molt accurate precHi on, if si lie c/rojt /9 i/o' (by the bye this sine qua nan... | |
 | 1804 - 534 pages
...paf&ge : "The mathematician can demonitrate with the molt deciGve certainty, that no fly can alight on this globe which we inhabit, without communicating motion to it ; and he can afcertain with the moft accurate precifion (if befo cbooft to ila) what mull be the exact amount of... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - Electrotherapeutics - 1804 - 242 pages
...fly can alight on this globe which we iri' habit, without communicating motion to it ; and •* hecan ascertain, with the most accurate precision, * if so he choose to do,' (by the bye this sine qua non part of the sentence is very beautiful, and not at all redundant) ' what... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - American poetry - 1806 - 326 pages
...marvellous, " The mathematician can demonstrate with the most decisive certainty, that no fly can alight on this globe which we inhabit, without communicating...the most accurate precision, if so he choose to do" (by the by, this sine qua nan part of the sentence is very beautiful, and not at all redundant) " what... | |
 | Arminianism - 1813 - 998 pages
...can scarcely be assigned. The motions of the planets can be ascertained, and their periods assigned. The mathematician can demonstrate, with the most decisive...communicating motion to it ; and he can ascertain, if he chooses to do it, with the most accurate precision, what must be the exact amount of the motion... | |
 | United States - 1822 - 590 pages
...says, " The mathematician can demonstrate, with the most decisive certainty, that no fly can alight on this globe which we inhabit, without communicating...can ascertain, with the most accurate precision, (if he choose to do,) what must be the exact amount of the motion so produced." — (Recreations in Agriculture,... | |
 | William Bingley - 1829 - 382 pages
...be ascertained, their distances measured, and their periods assigned. The Mathematician is able to demonstrate, with the most decisive certainty, that...communicating motion to it ; and he can ascertain, if he choose to do it, what must be the exact amount of the motion thus produced. In this train of... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - Booksellers and bookselling - 1837 - 300 pages
...marvelous, " The mathematician can demonstrate with the most decisive certainty, that no fly can alight on this globe which we inhabit, without communicating...the most accurate precision, if so he choose to do" (by the by, this sine qua rum part of the sentence is very beautiful, and not at all redundant) " what... | |
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... what must be the exact amount of the motion thus produced. In this train of investigation the mind of a Newton can display its superior powers, and soar to a height that exalts it... 