1704 · Skopia

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Treatise · Scientific literature

God in the Beginning form'd 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 conduced to the End for which he form'd them.

Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light · 1704

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Treatise · Scientific literature

Whence is it that Nature does nothing in vain: and whence arises all that Order and Beauty which we see in the World?... does it not appear from Phenomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent, who in infinite Space, as it were in his Sensory, sees the things themselves intimately, and throughly perceives them, and comprehends them wholly.

Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light · 1704

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They dream in Courtship, but in Wedlock wake.

1704

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Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.

1704

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The great design of art is to restore the decays that happened to human nature by the fall, by restoring order.

1704

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