 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 526 pages
...unless somewhat else stir it, it will lie still for ever, is a truth that no man doubts of. But that when a thing is in motion, it will eternally be in...subject after motion to pain and lassitude, think every thing else grows weary of motion, and seeks repose of its own accord ; little considering whether... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Authors, English - 1836 - 538 pages
...unless somewhat else stir it, it will lie still for ever, is a truth that no man doubts of. But that when a thing is in motion, it will eternally be in...subject after motion to pain and lassitude, think every thing else grows weary of motion, and seeks repose of its own accord ; little considering whether... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 372 pages
...unless somewhat else stir it, it will lie still for ever, is a truth that no man doubts of. But that when a thing is in motion, it will eternally be in...subject after motion to pain and lassitude, think every thing else grows weary of motion, and seeks repose of its own accord ; little considering whether... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Europe - 1839 - 718 pages
...man doubts of. But that when a thing is in motion, it will eternally be in motion, unless somewhat stay it, though the reason be the same, namely, that...subject after motion to pain and lassitude, think every thing else grows weary of motion and seeks repose of its own accord." The physical principle... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy, English - 1839 - 766 pages
...unless somewhat else stir it, it will lie still for ever, is a truth that no man doubts of. But that when- a thing is in motion, it will eternally be in...else stay it, though the reason be the same, namely, imagination, that nothing can change itself, is not so easily assented to. For men measure, not only... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy, English - 1839 - 766 pages
...will lie still for ever, is a truth that no man doubts of. But that when a thing is in motion, B 2 it will eternally be in motion, unless somewhat else stay it, though the reason be the same, namely, imagination, that nothing can change itself, is not so easily assented to. For men measure, not only... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Europe - 1839 - 428 pages
...unless somewhat else stir it, it will lie still for ever, is a truth that no man doubts of. But that when a thing is in motion, it will eternally be in motion, unless somewhat stay it, though the reason be the same, namely, that nothing can change itself, is not so easily assented... | |
 | Henry Hallam - European literature - 1842 - 484 pages
...man doubts of. But that, when a thing is in motion, it will eternally be in motion, unless somewhat stay it, though the reason be the same, namely, that...weary of motion and seeks repose of its own accord." The physical principle had lately been established, but the reason here given for the contrary prejudice,... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Europe - 1847 - 616 pages
...man doubts of. But that when a thing is in motion, it will eternally be in motion, unless somewhat stay it, though the reason be the same, namely that...is not so easily assented to. For men measure, not ouly other men, but all other things, by themselves ; and because they find themselves subject after... | |
 | Henry George Atkinson, Harriet Martineau - Naturalism - 1851 - 416 pages
...still, unless something else stir it, it will lie still for ever, is a truth no one doubts of. But that when a thing is in motion, it will eternally be in...only other men, but all other things, by themselves." — HoUes, on Imagination. "No one has yet been found possessed of sufficient firmness and severity... | |
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THAT when a thing lies still, unless somewhat else stir it, it will lie still for ever, is a truth that no man doubts of. But that when a thing is in motion, it will eternally be in motion, unless somewhat else stay it, though the reason be the same,... 
