All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most... The Living Age - Page 2351905Full view - About this book
| John Aikin - Biography - 1808 - 730 pages
...gravity, and of fermentation, to which almost all the motion we meet with in the world is- owing. It is probable, that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other preperties, and in such proportion... | |
| Greece - 1810 - 506 pages
...ness may be reckoned the property of all uncompounded matter, &c. All " these things considered, it is probable, that God in the beginning formed matter " in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, &c. These primitive par" tides being solid, are incomparably harder than any porous... | |
| Science - 1815 - 508 pages
...1)alton has referred to the following observations of Sir Isaac Newton :— " It seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, raoveable, particles,of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion... | |
| Science - 1815 - 520 pages
...Daltqn has referred to fhe following observations of Sir Isaac Newton : — " It seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, mpveable, particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion... | |
| Granville Penn - Bible and geology - 1822 - 480 pages
...Halt! They are these : "It seems probable to me, (said " the wise, sober, and circumspect Newton,) " that GOD, in the beginning, formed matter, in " .solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable " particles, of such sizes and figures, and with " such other properties, and in such proportions... | |
| India - 1824 - 414 pages
...Newton on the same subject? "It seems probable to me (said the wise, sober, and circumspect Newton,) that God in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, nr.oveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions... | |
| John Mason Good - Natural history - 1826 - 536 pages
...first of these high ornaments of our country. " All things considered," says Sir Isaac, " it seems probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles ; of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such propor*... | |
| Library - 1827 - 712 pages
...gravity, and of fermentation, to which almost all the motion we'meet with in the world is owing. It is probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion... | |
| James Kennedy Bailie - Creation - 1827 - 586 pages
...Optics, Newton expresses himself thus with respect to first formations : " It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles ; of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 440 pages
...take her hopes and fears, I plead her sex's claim : what matters hers 1. Id. It seems probable to me, that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion... | |
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