| 1873 - 808 pàgines
...Accordingly he was amusingly indignant with Newton for opposing him. "Newton perceived," he wrote, " that I could not do as his other darling friends'...opinion from him : he could not in his old age bear such contradiction, and so he was afraid of me the last thirteen years of his life." 35 FINDING THE... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1873 - 840 pàgines
...Accordingly he was amusingly indignant with Newton for opposing him. "Newton perceived," he wrote, " that I could not do as his other darling friends did,...opinion from him : he could not in his old age bear such contradiction, and so he was afraid of me the last thirteen years of his life." pilloried him... | |
| Richard Anthony Proctor - 1875 - 452 pàgines
...Accordingly he was amusingly indignant with Newton fur opposing him. ' Newton perceived,' ho wrote, ' that I could not do as his other darling friends did,...opinion from him : he could not in his old age bear such contradiction, and so he was afraid of me the last thirteen years of his life.' the essential... | |
| 1878 - 818 pàgines
...Accordingly he was amusingly indignant with Newton for opposing him. " Newton perceived," he wrote, " that I could not do as his other darling friends did, that ia, learn of him without contradicting him when I differed in opinion from him : he could not in his... | |
| 1885 - 520 pàgines
...Accordingly he was amusingly indignant with Newton for opposing him. " Newton perceived," ho wrote, " that I could not do as his other darling friends did, that is. * KNOWLEDGE * [SEPT. 11, 1885. Hogarth pilloried him in the celebrated madhouse scene of the "Rake's... | |
| Augustus De Morgan - 1914 - 248 pàgines
...follows. After alluding to Newton having made him his deputy, and then his successor, he adds: "So did I enjoy a large portion of his favour for twenty years...together. But he then perceiving that I could not 1 [For Brewster's version of the Flamsteed episode, see Memoirs, 1855, vol. ii, pp. 157-242.] 2 [Memoirs... | |
| Richard S. Westfall - 1983 - 934 pàgines
...finally reject him. For twenty years after their meeting in 1694, he claimed, he enjoyed Newton's favor. But he then perceiving that I could not do as his...Opinion from him, he could not, in his old Age, bear such Contradiction; and so he was afraid of me the last thirteen Years of his Life.80 Whiston went... | |
| J.E. Force, R.H. Popkin - 1990 - 244 pàgines
...heads of the colleges in Cambridge, made me his successor, so did I enjoy a large portion of his favor for twenty years together. But he then perceiving...that is, learn of him, without contradicting him, he could not, in his old age, bear such contradiction; and so he was afraid of me the last thirteen... | |
| James E. Force - 1985 - 236 pàgines
...of the place brought me to the heads of the colleges in Cambridge, made me his successor; so did I enjoy a large portion of his favour for twenty years...that is, learn of him, without contradicting him, he could not, in his old age, bear such contradiction; and so he was afraid of me the last thirteen... | |
| Ioan James - 2005 - 224 pàgines
...to the Lucasian chair at Cambridge, explained: so did I enjoy a large portion of his favour for 20 years together. But he then perceiving that I could...do as his other darling friends did, that is learn from him, without contradicting him, when I differed in opinion from him, he could not... bear such... | |
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