 | Isaac Newton - Optics - 1730 - 432 pages
...Particles being Solids, are incomparably harder than any porous Bodies compounded of them ; even fo very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces ; no ordinary Power being able to divide what God himfelf made one in the firft Creation. While the Particles continue entire, they may compofe Bodies... | |
 | Robert Boyle - 1738 - 788 pages
...tides, being folids, are incomparably harder " than any porous bodies compounded of them ; " even fo hard, as never to wear, or break in " pieces ; no ordinary power being able to " divide what God himfelf made one in the " firil creation. While thefe particles eon" rinue entire, they may compofe... | |
 | Andrew Baxter - Philosophy - 1745 - 446 pages
...particles being folids, are incomparably harder than any porous badies compounded of them ; even fo very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces : no ordinary power being able to divide what God himfelf made one in the firft creation. While the particles continue entire, they may compofe bodies... | |
 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - Eighteenth century - 1794 - 538 pages
...particles being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so hard as never to wear or break in pieces ; no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself himself made one in the first creation. While these particles," says he, " continue entire, they may... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 434 pages
...primitive particles being folk), are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compofed of them ; even fo very hard as never to wear or break in pieces ; no ordinary power being able to divide what God himfelf made one at the urit creation. While tbs Ccibcfion. thf -particles continue entire, tlwy may... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 700 pages
...particles being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so hard as never to wear or break in pieces ; no ordinary...being able to divide what God himself made one in the fint creation. While these particles continue entire, they may compose bodies of one and the same nature... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 734 pages
...being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even ю hard as ncver to wear or break in pieces ; no ordinary power being...divide what God himself made one in the first creation. While these particles rontiuuc entire, they may compose bodies of one and the same nature and texture... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 824 pages
...primitive particles being folid, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compofed of them ; even fo very hard as never to wear or break in pieces ; no ordinary power being able to divide what God himfelf made one at the firft creation. While the particles continue entire, they may compofe bodies... | |
 | Encyclopaedias, John Millard - Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1813 - 712 pages
...particles being1 solids, are iucomparably harder, than any porous bodies compounded of theui, even so hard as never to wear or break in pieces ; no ordinary...divide what God himself made one in the first creation. The essential properties of matter, are solidity, divisibility, mobility, and inertia, or a state of... | |
 | John Millard - Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc - 1813 - 704 pages
...particles being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so hard as never to wear or break in pieces ; no ordinary...divide what God himself made one in the first creation. The essential properties of matter, are solidity, divisibility, mobility, and inertia, or a state of... | |
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All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most... 
