 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1854 - 608 pages
...it with divers propositions, some relating to comets, others to other things, found out last winter. assive wall which still forms the south-west corner..."Absolve the bishops whom you have excommunicated. am no sooner come near her again but she gives me warning. The two first books, without the third,... | |
 | David Brewster - Great Britain - 1855 - 504 pages
...it with divers propositions, some relating to comets, others to other things, found out last winter. The third I now design to suppress. Philosophy is...to do with her. I found it so formerly, and now I am no sooner come near her again, but she gives me warning. The two first books, without the third,... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1894 - 552 pages
...' Books of Fishes ' " (Weld's ' Hutory of the Boyal Society,' vol. 1, p. 310). * " The third [book] I now design to suppress. Philosophy is such an impertinently...lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits aa have to do with her. I found it so formerly, and now I am no sooner come near her again but she... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1863 - 818 pages
...extremely anxious to suppress. " Philosophy," he writes in a letter to Halley, intimating this wish, " is such an impertinently litigious lady, that a man...good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her." His objections, however, were at last overcome by the representations of his friends — and the work... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1864 - 432 pages
..."Philosophy," he said, "is such au impertinently litigious lady, that a man had as well be engagc'd in lawsuits as have to do with her. I found it so formerly, and now I am no sooner come near her again but she gives me warning." In the controversy relative to his optical... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1894 - 944 pages
...Society," vol. ip 310.^ - " The third [book] I now design to suppress. Philosophy is such an icrtinenlly litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits lave to do with her. I found it so formerly, and now I am no sooner le near her again but she gives... | |
 | Thomas Gribble - 1871 - 112 pages
...of the work ; and in a letter intimating this desire, he says, ' Philosophy is such an impertinent, litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.' And, finally, some years of the great discoverer's life were embittered by the unhappy controversy... | |
 | Bernard Henry Becker - Learned institutions and societies - 1875 - 356 pages
...matter." In reply to this Newton declared his intention to suppress the third book altogether, and said, " Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady...to do with her. I found it so formerly, and now I am no sooner come near her again than she gives me warning." Halley's invincible arguments and entreaties... | |
 | Science - 1880 - 922 pages
...disposed to conceal a discovery, rather than risk a controversy. " Philosophy," lie. wrote to Ilalley, f "is such an impertinently litigious lady, that a man...good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her." Thus the turmoil raised by Hooke on the appearance of the first part of the " Principia " inspired... | |
 | Science - 1880 - 900 pages
...disposed to conceal a discovery, rather than risk a controversy. " Philosophy," he wrote to IIalley,f " is such an impertinently litigious lady, that a man...good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her." Thus the turmoil raised by Hooke on the appearance of the first part of the " Principia " inspired... | |
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The third I now design to suppress. Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady, that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits, as have to do with her. 
