CorrespondenceG.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1789 |
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Halaman 75 - Loc. cit., p. 65, Letter of May 5, 1767. He ventured upon physical subjects:1 "Is it not true that electricity, and all the prodigies it has hitherto discovered, have only served to excite curiosity? Is it not true, that the doctrine of attraction and gravity, has done nothing more than astonish the imagination? Is it not true that all the operations of chemistry are in the same predicament? But are robbers less numerous or contractors less covetous?
Halaman 39 - much more useful to the academy than I could be. This is no false modesty, but the simple truth. Mr. de la Grange is young, and I am almost old; his ardor is rising, mine is on the decline ; he is getting up, and I am going to bed.
Halaman 58 - HAVE received the letter which you have done me the honour to addrefs to me, acquainting me that his Majefty had thought proper provifionally to appoint Mr.
Halaman 232 - If thou who art but *' a. worm, being animated, canft think, why " fhould not thofe immenfe bodies which are " in perpetual motion be productive of thought, " much fuperior to thine ?" This appears to me very probable; but I have not the vanity to prefume, like the ancient ftoics, that our foul is an emanation from that great Being, and which, after death, it fhall rejoin.
Halaman 16 - I am only acquainted with one work of Mr. Lambert, which is good, but which does not seem to me comparable to any of the works of Euler; and, if the latter be on his knees before Mr. Lambert, as your majesty has done me the honor to inform me he is, we must say of Mr. Euler as has been said of LaFontaine, that he was silly enough to believe Aesop and Phaedrus had more wit than himself • • • . I should think him (Lambert) tolerably well provided for when he should be...
Halaman 42 - If however your majesty should have other views, relative to the place of Director, Mr. de la Grange, well satisfied with the fifteen hundred crowns • • • will not insist upon this point; he only intreats your majesty would be kind enough to name a Director before his arrival, in order that the court of Turin • • • should not imagine that Mr. de la Grange, at his first coming, should meet an apparent kind of disgrace.
Halaman 210 - ... reduced all law to the love of our neighbour, and the adoration of God, in fpirit and in truth.
Halaman 259 - Voltaire's conduct," commented Frederick, " that if he were a sovereign he would be at daggers drawn with all his neighbours. His reign would be a continual war, and God knows what arguments he would employ to prove that war is the natural condition of society." Yet the octogenarian offender was admonished more gently than of old. " This Maupertuis, whom you continue to hate, had good qualities. He was a decent fellow ; he possessed talents and learning. I admit he was brusque ; it was that which...
Halaman 232 - God himfelf, incomprehenfible to a being h'mited as I am, and of whom I can form no idea, except by comparing him to an organized body, that enjoys the power of thought. I contemplate the whole organization of the univerfe, aud fay to myfelf — " If thou who art but *
Halaman 340 - I am obliged to encourage the ftudy of the Greek language, which, were it not for my cares, would be entirely...