 | David Brewster - 1831 - 328 sider
...December the 9th, 1675, he observes, " I was so persecuted with discussions arising from the publication of my theory of light, that I blamed my own imprudence for parting with so substantial a blessing as my quiet, to run after a shadow." CHAPTER V. e of Newton in supposing that the Improvement of Refracting... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 sider
...was," he afterwards wrote to Leibnitz, " so persecuted with discussions arising from the publication of my theory of light, that I blamed my own imprudence for parting with so substantial a blessing as my quiet, to run after a shadow." It was, perhaps, the remembrance of these inconsiderate objections... | |
 | Lives - 1833 - 588 sider
...was," he afterwards wrote to Leibnitz, " so persecuted with discussions arising from the publication of my theory of light, that I blamed my own imprudence for parting with so substantial a blessing as my quiet, to run after a shadow." It was, perhaps, the remembrance of these inconsiderate objections... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 sider
...was," he afterwards wrote to Leibnitz, " so persecuted with discussions arising from the publication of my theory of light, that I blamed my own imprudence for parting with so substantial a blessing as my quiet, to run after a shadow." It was, perhaps, the remembrance of these inconsiderate objections... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 sider
...of the game year, he remarks : " I was so persecuted with discussions arising from the publication of my theory of light, that I blamed my own imprudence for parting with so substantial a blessing as my quiet, to run after a, shadow." Nor did bis anxieties, arising from the spleen of his enemies,... | |
 | Willson Cryer - 1842 - 60 sider
...once observed to a correspondent, "I was so persecuted with discussions arising from the publication of my theory of light, that I blamed my own imprudence for parting with so substantial a blessing as my quiet, to run after a shadow." Some French writers also unworthily misrepresented Newton's character... | |
 | 1845 - 334 sider
...December the 9th, 1675, lie observes, " 1 was so persecuted with discussions arising from the publication of my theory of light, that I blamed my own imprudence for parting with so substantial a blessing as my quiet to run after a shadow." CHAPTER V. Mistake of Newton in supposing that the Tmprovemenf... | |
 | 1846 - 670 sider
...matters of philosophy." And again, " I was so persecuted with discussions arising from the publication of my theory of light, that I blamed my own imprudence for parting with so substantial a blessing as my quiet to run after a shadow." The researches on the colours of thin plates, and the explanation... | |
 | William Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 sider
...course of the same year, he remarks, " I was so persecuted with discussions arising from the publication of my theory of light, that I blamed my own imprudence for parting with so substantial a blessing as my quiet, to run after a shadow." Nor did his anxieties, arising from the spleen of his enemies,... | |
 | 1848 - 796 sider
...Continent. Writing to Leibnitz, in 1675, he says, " I was so persecuted with discussions arising from my theory of light, that I blamed my own imprudence for parting with so substantial a blessing as my quiet to run after a shadow." Though the way had been prepared by the discoveries of Copernicus... | |
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I was so persecuted with discussions arising out of my theory of light, that I blamed my own imprudence for parting with so substantial a blessing as my quiet, to run after a shadow. 
