 | 1845 - 334 pagina’s
...want of a good method, which made me afterward return to the first book, and enlarge it with diverse propositions, some relating to comets, others to other...to do with her. I found it so formerly, and now I can no sooner come near her again but she gives me warning. The first two books without the third will... | |
 | George Grant - 1849 - 316 pagina’s
...out last winter. The third I now design to suppress. Philosophy is such an impertinently letigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in law-suits...to do with her. I found it so formerly, and now I can no sooner come near her again but she gives me warning. The two first books without the third,... | |
 | George Grant - 1849 - 318 pagina’s
...out last winter. The third I now design to suppress. Philosophy is such an impertinently letigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in law-suits...to do with her. I found it so formerly, and now I can no sooner come near her again but she gives me warning. The two first books without the third,... | |
 | George Grant - 1849 - 322 pagina’s
...out last winter. The third I now design to suppress. Philosophy is such an importinently letigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in law-suits...to do with her. I found it so formerly, and now I can no sooner come near her again but she gives me warning. The two first books without the third,... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 506 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1894 - 552 pagina’s
...' 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 - 1863 - 818 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1894 - 944 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1880 - 924 pagina’s
...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... | |
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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. 
