 | 1836 - 884 pages
...signify nothing, reflect before he give his answer, — and he will fiud that he means nothing more, than that, in all similar circumstances, the explosion...uniform consequence of the application of a spark." This test, indeed, is the only one to which the question can be brought. For the question does not... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1818 - 602 pages
...he give his answer ; and he will find, that he means nothing more than this very simple belief, — that, in all similar circumstances, the explosion...uniform consequence of the application of a spark. The application of the spark is ,one event ; the explosion of tlje gunpowder is another ; and there... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1821 - 536 pages
...that a spark has the /rawer of kindling and exploding gunpowder, we say no more and no less than th.it in all similar circumstances the explosion of gunpowder...Section third applies the foregoing arguments to all tho l phenomena. \Ve wish to move our limbs, and they move at our bidding. Here is a sequence, and... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1822 - 552 pages
...that signify nothing, reflect, before he give his answer, and he will find, that he means nothing more than that, in all similar circumstances, the explosion...uniform consequence of the application of a spark. To take an example more immediately connected with our own science, we all know, that as soon as any... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1826 - 548 pages
...that signify nothing, reflect, before he give his answer, and he will find, that he means nothing more than that, in all similar circumstances, the explosion...uniform consequence of the application of a spark. To take an example more immediately connected with our own science, we all know, that as soon as any... | |
 | Alexander Bryan Johnson - 1828 - 216 pages
...answer, that by the power imputed to the spark, he means only " that, in nil similar circumstances, an explosion of gunpowder will be the immediate and uniform consequence of the application of n spark." Admit the person shall answer thus, what will the word signify ? — The same phenomena that... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 810 pages
...mass. But let anyone ask himself what he means by the term, and he will find nothing more than this, that in all similar circumstances the explosion of...uniform consequence of the application of a spark.' After the elaborate lecture on power, cause, and effect, there is nothing very worthy of notice till... | |
 | 1829 - 664 pages
...nothing, — reflect before he gives his answer, and he will find that he means nothing more than this, in all similar circumstances, the explosion of gunpowder, will be the immediate consequence of the application of a spark. To take an example more immediately connected with our own... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1835 - 486 pages
...he give his answer; and he will find, that he means nothing more than this very simple belief, — that, in all similar circumstances, the explosion...uniform consequence of the application of a spark. The application of the spark is one event ; the explosion of the gunpowder is another; and there is... | |
 | Charles Hodge - 1829 - 664 pages
...nothing, — reflect before he gives his answer, and he will find that he means nothing more than this, in all similar circumstances, the explosion of gunpowder, will be the immediate consequence of the application of a spark. To take an example more immediately connected with our own... | |
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... he will find, that he means nothing more than that, in all similar circumstances, the explosion of gunpowder will be the immediate and uniform consequence of the application of a spark. 
