 | Donald A. Crosby - Philosophy - 1988 - 474 pages
...themselves." As a "being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent," and existing in "infinite space," he "sees the things themselves intimately, and thoroughly...perceives them; and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself." Human beings, by contrast, are imprisoned in their senses and can know... | |
 | W. K. Thomas, Warren U. Ober - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 348 pages
...Whittaker, 370 (Bk. 3, Pt. 1, Qu. 28). The "first Cause" Newton had described in the preceding sentence as "a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent,...Sensory, sees the things themselves intimately, and throughly perceives them, and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself. ..."... | |
 | Michel Puech - Causation - 1990 - 532 pages
...Optics, Query 28 : «And these things being rightly dispatched, does it not appear from phaenomena that there is a being incorporeal, living, intelligent,...space, as it were in his sensory, sees the things themsetves intimately, and thoroughly perceives them and comprehends them wholly by their immediate... | |
 | Jürgen Moltmann - Religion - 1993 - 388 pages
...perceives all things and all the movement of things: . . . Does it not appear from Phaenomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent,...perceives them, and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself?33 If God perceives everything immediately and directly through his omnipresence,... | |
 | Luco Johan van den Brom - God - 1993 - 340 pages
...they are identical with God. Even Newton's highly-controversial assertion, viz. to the effect that God is 'a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent,...perceives them, and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself is qualified by the analogical statement 'as it were in his sensory'.... | |
 | Richard S. Westfall - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 356 pages
...of a Being [Annon Spatium Universum, Sensorium est Entis] incorporeal, living, and intelligent, who sees the things themselves intimately, and thoroughly...perceives them, and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself .... David Gregory, who held an extensive discussion of the new Queries... | |
 | Samuel L. Macey - Reference - 1994 - 730 pages
...occur in the "sensorium" with which each of us was equipped. Newton asks, "does it not appear that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent,...omnipresent, who in infinite space, as it were in his sensory [sensorium], sees the things themselves intimately, and thoroughly perceives them. . . by their immediate... | |
 | Peter Probst - Ethics, Modern - 1994 - 166 pages
...metaphysische Voraussetzung H. More's bestimmt auch Newton, der aus den "Phaenomena" der Welt schließt, "that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent, who in infinite Space, äs it were in his Sensory, sees the things themselves intimately, and throughly perceives them, and... | |
 | Walter Pape, Frederick Burwick - Art - 1995 - 380 pages
..."shew" that usurps the entire field of vision ("as far as sight cold reach"). 21 For Newton God was a "Being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent,...perceives them, and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself. Of which things the Images only carried through the Organs of Sense... | |
 | A. Rupert Hall - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 324 pages
...of it coming slowly to humanity from the true philosophy: 'does it not appear from Phaenomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent,...perceives them, and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself (Newton 1952: 370, my italics).5 The philosophical astronomer sees through... | |
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And these things being rightly dispatch'd, does it not appear from Phaenomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent, who in infinite Space, as it were in his Sensory, sees the things themselves intimately, and thoroughly... 
