 We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances. To this purpose the philosophers say that Nature does nothing in vain, and more is in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased...  Essays on medicine - Page 183by William Sharp - 1874 - 809 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Sharp - 1853 - 286 pages
...plainly that opinion of store was a cause of want." LORD BAOOK. THE SINGLE MEDICINE OF HOMCEOPATHY. "More is in vain when less will serve, for nature...magnetic iron was known to the ancients, but nothing more ; its -polarity •was not known, at least in Europe, till 1180, when it was first described by GrUYOT... | |
 | William Sharp - 1856 - 384 pages
...opinion of store was a cause of want." LORD BACON. ESSAY VIII. THE SINGLE MEDICINE OF HOMCEOPATHY. " More is in vain when less will serve, for nature is pleased with simplicity." SIR ISAAC NEWTON. TKUTH was well feigned by the ancients to lie at the bottom of a well. The progress which mankind has... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1874 - 502 pages
...rule of philosophizing, he adds™ : ' To this purpose the philosophers say, that nature does nothing in vain, when less will serve ; for Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.' Keill, again, lays downi1 as an axiom that ' The causes... | |
 | University of Missouri - 1879 - 522 pages
...explain their appearances. To this purpose the philosophers say that nature does nothing in vain, and more, is in vain when less will serve; for nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes. — (Newton's Principia, p. 476.) In the fourteenth... | |
 | Samuel Spahr Laws - 1879 - 108 pages
...explain their appearances. To this purpose the philosophers say that nature docs nothing in vain, and more is in vain when less will serve; for nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.— (Newton's Principia, p. 476.) In the fourteenth... | |
 | University of Missouri - 1879 - 520 pages
...explain their appearances. To this purpose the philosophers say that nature does nothing in vain, and more is in vain when less will serve; for nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes. — (Newton's Principia, p. 476.) . In the fourteenth... | |
 | William Sharp - 1885 - 300 pages
...plainly that opinion of store was a cause of want." 'Loni) BACON THE SINGLE MEDICINE OF HOMEOPATHY. "MORE is in vain when less will serve, for nature...magnetic iron was known to the ancients, but nothing more ; its polarity was not known, at least in Europe, till 1180, when it was first described by GUYOT ;... | |
 | William Sharp - 1894 - 244 pages
...disease according to the principle similia, simUibus curantur. SINGLE MEDICINE OF HOMOEOPATHY. '' MIIHE is in vain when less will serve, for nature is pleased with simplicity." SIB ISAAC NEwTON. TRUTH was well feigned by the ancients to lie at the bottom of a well. The progress... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1907 - 514 pages
...explain their appearances." " To this purpose the philosophers say, that Nature does nothing in vain, and more is in vain, when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes." RULE II. " Therefore to the same natural effects we... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1907 - 514 pages
...explain their appeorance$." " To this purpose the philosophers say, that Nature does nothing in vain, and more is in vain, when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes." < RULE II. " Therefore to the same natural effects... | |
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