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" And now we might add something concerning a certain most subtle spirit which pervades and lies hid in all gross bodies; by the force and action of which spirit the particles of bodies attract one another at near distances, and cohere, if contiguous; and... "
A Philosophical and Mathematical Dictionary: Containing an Explanation of ... - Page 106
by Charles Hutton - 1815 - 628 pages
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The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, Volume 2

Isaac Newton - Celestial mechanics - 1729 - 546 pages
...might add fomething concerning a certain mod fubtle Spirit, which pervades and lies hid in all grofs bodies; by the force and action of which Spirit, the...particles of bodies mutually attract one another at near dilhnccs, and cohere, if contiguous; and electric bodies operate to greater diftances, as well repelling...
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Philosophical essays

Richard Lovett - Compasses (Mathematical instruments) - 1766 - 610 pages
...No. 91. 99. .. ' certain i certain mbft fubtile Spirit, which pervaded .* and lies hid in all grofs bodies ; by the force « and action of which Spirit,...particles of * bodies mutually attract one another at near * diftances, and cohere, if contiguous; and « electric bodies operate to greater diftances, * as well...
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The Works of the Right Reverend George Horne ...: To which are ..., Volume 1

George Horne, William Jones - Theology - 1818 - 570 pages
...experimentorum, quibus leges actionum hujus " spiritus accurate determinari et monstrari debent." " And now we might add something concerning a " certain...of " which spirit, the particles of bodies mutually at" tract one another at near distances, and cohere if " contiguous ; and electric bodies operate to...
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The Inverted Scheme of Copernicus: With the Pretended Experiments Upon which ...

Bartholomew Prescot - Astronomy - 1822 - 292 pages
...and elastic SPIRIT, which" he says " pervades and lies hid" (certainly no one ever saw or felt it,) " in all gross bodies. By the force and action of which spirit," (amongst other wonders, he XXIV tells us of,) " all sensation is excited, and the members of animal...
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Principles of Natural and Metaphysical Philosophy: Intended on a More ...

Mine and body - 1829 - 150 pages
...wholly needless, imaginary, and chimerical ? ' And now we might add,' says he (Prin. Math. p. last,) ' something concerning a certain, most subtle spirit,...which spirit, the particles of bodies mutually attract each other at near distances, and cohere if contiguous ; and electric bodies operating to greater distances,...
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The American Journal of Science and Arts

1837 - 868 pages
...to employ it in a new capacity. " And now we might add something concerning a certain most subtile spirit, which pervades and lies hid in all gross bodies...another at near distances, and cohere if contiguous; and electrick bodies operate to greater distances, as well repelling as attracting the neighbouring corpuscles...
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The Stethoscope

1862 - 280 pages
...great cause of them all, the royal Regent, as it were, of the Universe, the true Demiurgus* which * " And now we might add something concerning a certain...pervades, and lies hid in all gross bodies ; by the philosophy has blindly searched after, the unconscious agent, if we may so speak, of the supreme Deity...
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Waymarks in the Wilderness and Scriptural Guide, Volume 1

1864 - 520 pages
...actions of some one simple elastic element pervading all things. (See Newton's Principia, p. 507.) "And now we might add something concerning a certain...mutually attract one another at near distances, and when contiguous ; and electric bodies operate to greater distances, as well repelling as attracting...
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Problems of Life and Mind: The method of science and its application to ...

George Henry Lewes - Knowledge, Theory of - 1874 - 456 pages
...must startle the most speculative by its wildness : — " And now we might add something concerning a most subtle Spirit which pervades and lies hid in...bodies ; by the force and action of which Spirit the parti* Huyghens and Leibnitz, so eminently qualified to comprehend the mathematical theory of attraction,...
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British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review: Or, Quarterly ..., Volume 55

Medicine - 1875 - 558 pages
...research. We quote it thus amended : "And now we might add something concerning a most subtle Energy which pervades and lies hid in all gross bodies ; by the force and action of which Energy the particles of bodies mutually attract one another at near distances, and cohere if contiguous...
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