 | 1831 - 602 páginas
...struggle, and give a new hope to mankind by the new victory of their freedom ! NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. NOTHING can be more unfounded than the objection which has been taken, in litnine, by persons, well meaning perhaps, certainly narrow-minded, against the study of natural philosophy,... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1831 - 310 páginas
...wisdom for which the slight taste obtained on earth has given him so keen a relish ? (5.) Nothing, then, can be more unfounded than the objection which has been taken, in limine, by persons, well meaning perhaps, certainly narrow-minded, against the study of natural philosophy, and,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1831 - 570 páginas
...finest essays on the moral conduct of the intellect which has ever been produced. ' Nothing, then, can be more unfounded than the objection which has been taken, in limine, hy persons, well meaning perhaps, certainly narrow-minded, against the study of natural philosophy,—that... | |
 | 1834 - 512 páginas
...hack on itself in utter hopelessness of arriving at an end."—p. 4. And again:— " Nothing, then, can be more unfounded than the objection which has been taken, in limine, by persons, well meaning perhaps, certainly narrow-minded, against the study of natural philosophy, and... | |
 | Henry Burgess (of Luton) - 1836 - 446 páginas
...the study of natural philosophy was condemned by some as opposed to religion; " Nothing (says Sir J. Herschel) can be more unfounded than the objection which has been taken by personswell meaning perhaps, certainly narrow minded, against the study of natural philosophy, and... | |
 | 1837 - 574 páginas
...subject. After showing that, after all, man is but a being " darkly wise," he proceeds : " Nothing, then, can be more unfounded than the objection which has been taken, in limine, by persons, well meaning perhaps, certainly narrow-minded, against the study of natural philosophy, and... | |
 | 1837 - 574 páginas
...subject. After showing that, after all, man is but a being "darkly wise," he proceeds: " Nothing, then, can be more unfounded than the objection which has been taken, in limine, by persons, well meaning perhaps, certainly narrow-minded, against the study of natural philosophy, and... | |
 | 1839 - 210 páginas
...subject. After showing that, after all, man is but a being "darkly wise," he proceeds : " Nothing, then, can be more unfounded than the objection which has been taken, in limine, by persons, well meaning perhaps, certainly narrow-minded, against the study of natural philosophy, and... | |
 | 1839 - 560 páginas
...subject. After showing that, after all, man is but a being "darkly wise," he proceeds: " Nothing, then, can be more unfounded than the objection which has been taken, in limine, by persons, well meaning perhaps, certainly narrow-minded, against the study of natural philosophy, and... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1840 - 398 páginas
...wisdom for which the slight taste obtained on earth has given him so keen a relish ? (5.) Nothing, then, can be more unfounded than the objection which has been taken, in limine, by persons, well meaning perhaps, certainly narrow-minded, against the study of natural philosophy, and... | |
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Nothing," says Sir IFW Herschel, "can be more unfounded than the objection which has been taken in limine, by persona well meaning perhaps, certainly narrow-minded, against the study of natural philosophy, and indeed against all science,—that it fosters... 
