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" 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. "
The British Quarterly Review - 297. oldal
Szerkesztette: - 1855
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, 152. kötet

1880 - 632 oldal
...disposed to conceal a discovery, rather than risk a controversy. ' Philo' sophy,' he wrote to Halley ,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...

Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century ..., 4. kötet

John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 940 oldal
...letter to Dr. Halley, he says, " The third book of the Principia I now design to suppress. Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady, that a man...be engaged in law-suits, as have to do with her." — His friends, however, of the Royal Society, most fortunately prevailed upon him to alter that resolution....

Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century ..., 4. kötet

John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 934 oldal
...letter to Dr. Halley, he says, " The third book of the Princijria I now design to suppress. Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady, that a man...as good be engaged in law-suits, as have to do with her."—His friends, however, of the Royal Society, most fortunately prevailed upon him to alter that...

The Life of Sir Isaac Newton

David Brewster - 1831 - 328 oldal
...comets, others to other things found out last winter. The third I now design to suppress. Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady, that a man...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...

The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

1832 - 406 oldal
...applied to him to allow them to print it; " Philosophy," he says, writing on the subject to H alley, " is such an impertinently litigious lady, that a man...good be engaged in law-suits as have to do with her." He was, however, eventually prevailed upon to yield; and the work appeared in May 1687. His Optics...

Lives of Eminent Persons

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 606 oldal
...comets, others to other things found out last winter. The third I now design to suppress. Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady, that a man...formerly, and now I am no sooner come near her again, but she gives me warning. The two first books, without the third, will not bear so well the title of...

Lives of Eminent Persons: Consisting of Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Mahomet ...

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 oldal
...comets, others to other things found out last winter. The third I now design to suppress. Philosophy is such 'an impertinently litigious lady, that a man...formerly, and now I am no sooner come near her again, but she gives me warning. The two first books, without the third, will not bear so well the title of...

Lives of eminent persons; consisting of Galileo, Kepler

Lives - 1833 - 588 oldal
...comets, others to other things found out last winter. The third I now design to suppress. Philosophy is . such an impertinently litigious lady, that a...formerly, and now I am no sooner come near her again, but she gives me warning. The two first books, without the third, will not bear so well the title of...

The Life of Sir Isaac Newton

David Brewster - 1833 - 338 oldal
...comets, others to other things found out last winter. The third I now design to suppress. Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady, that a man had as good be engaged m lawsuits as have to do with her. I found it so formerly, and now I can no sooner come near her again...

History of natural philosophy from the earliest periods to the present day

B. Powell - 1834 - 420 oldal
...the third book on the system of the world, yet he determined to suppress it. " Philosophy, he says, " is such an impertinently litigious lady, that a man...to do with her. I found it so formerly; and now I can no sooner come near her again, but she gives me warning." In replying to this letter, Halley expresses...




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