 | Conrad Hume Pinches - 1860 - 480 pages
...this new flood of light. But the subject is too awful for irony. I will speak plainly and directly. Newton was a Christian! Newton, whose mind burst forth...truth, and the foundation of whose knowledge of it was philosophy—not those visionary and arrogant presumptions which too often usurp its name, but philosophy... | |
 | Charles Richson - 1860 - 216 pages
...near, And laid my hand upon thy wave — as I do here ! Byron. 3. Sir Isaac Newton, as a Christian. Newton was a Christian ! Newton, whose mind burst forth from the fetters fastened by nature upon our finite conceptions ! — Newton, whose science was truth, and the foundation... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1862 - 564 pages
...too nwful for'irony. I will speak plainly and directly. Newton was a Christian ! — Newton, whoso mind burst forth from the fetters cast by nature upon...conceptions; — Newton, whose science was truth, and the foundations of whose knowledge of it was philosophy not those visionary and arrogant presumptions which... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 pages
...dove — (I'll tell you what, my love, I cannot write, unless he's sent above !) •••MBM VII. Newton was a Christian ! Newton' ! whose mind burst forth from the fetters cast by nature on our finite conceptions ; — Newton' ! whose science was truth, and the foundation of whose knowledge... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1867 - 448 pages
...new flood of light. But the subject is too awful for irony. — I will speak plainly and directly. Newton was a Christian! Newton, whose mind burst forth from the fetters fastened by Nature upon our finite conceptions — Newton, whose science was truth, and the foundation... | |
 | John Wilson - 1868 - 376 pages
...consul. 2. Newton was a Christian ; — Newton! whose mind burst forth from the fetters cast by nature on our finite conceptions; — Newton! whose science...was philosophy ; not those visionary and arrogant presumptions which too often usurp its name, hut philosophy resting on the basis of mathematics, which,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1869 - 810 pages
...this new flood of light. But the subject is too awful for irony. I will speak plainly and directly. Newton was a Christian, — Newton, whose mind burst...its name, but philosophy resting upon the basis of mathematics, which, like figures, cannot lie ; Newton, who carried the line and rule to the utmost... | |
 | Alexander Kennedy Isbister - Oratory - 1870 - 420 pages
...this new flood of light. But the subject is too awful for irony. I will speak plainly and directly. Newton was a Christian! Newton, whose mind burst forth...truth, and the foundation of whose knowledge of it was philosophy—not those visionary and arrogant presumptions which too often usurp its name, but philosophy... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Freedom of the press - 1870 - 514 pages
...this new flood of light. But the subject is too awful for irony. I will speak plainly and directly. Newton was a Christian ! Newton, whose mind burst forth from the fetters fastened by nature upon our finite conceptions— Newton, whose science was truth, and the foundation... | |
 | Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - Elocution - 1871 - 664 pages
...by Mr. Thomas Paine. But the subject is too awful for irony. 1 will speak plainly and directly. 2. Newton was a Christian ! — Newton, whose mind burst...conceptions ; — Newton, whose science was truth, and the foundations of whose knowledge of it was philosophy : not those visionary and arrogant presumptions... | |
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Christians, I cannot help lamenting that Newton had not lived to this day, to have had his shallowness filled up with this new flood of light. But the subject is too awful for irony. I will speak plainly and directly. Newton was a Christian ! Newton... 
