...of the year 1829, directed certain trustees mentioned in his Will to arrange for the publication of one thousand copies of a work On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God as Manifested in the Creation. Eight thousand pounds were to be invested in public funds to be...

...nominated and appointed by the said President, to write, print, publish, and expose to public sale, one thousand copies of a work on the Power, Wisdom,...reasonable arguments, as for instance, the variety and formation of God's creatures in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms; the effect of digestion...

...an eccentric clergyman, left a bequest of £8,000 in trust to the president of the Royal Society for work On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God, as...Illustrating Such Work by All Reasonable Arguments. Eight works of natural theology were commissioned and became known as The Bridgewater Treatises. 10...

...(nine with Babbage's unofficial one) treatises were described as "On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation; illustrating...reasonable arguments, as for instance the variety and formation of God's creatures in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms, the effect of digestion,...

...eight contributors in all. They were asked to demonstrate no less than the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation; illustrating...reasonable arguments - as for instance the variety and formation of God's creatures in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms; the effect of digestion,...

...£8,000 to the Royal Society for a treatise or treatises to be written on the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God as manifested in the Creation; illustrating such work by all reasonable argument, as for instance the variety and formation of God's creatures in the animal, vegetable and...

...subsequent sequence of Bridgewater treatises, concerned with demonstrating the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God as manifested in the Creation; illustrating...reasonable arguments, as for instance the variety and formation of God's creatures in the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms; the effect of digestion...

...left a large bequest for the publication of a series of volumes "On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation; illustrating...reasonable arguments, as for instance the variety and formation of God's creatures in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms; the effect of digestion,...

...select, who would write and publish a thousand copies of a book On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation; illustrating...reasonable arguments, as for instance the variety and formation of God's creatures in the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms; the effect of digestion,...

...Egerton, eighth Earl of Bridgewater, who on his death in 1829 lef the sum of £8000 for the publication of a work On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God,...Creation; illustrating such work by all reasonable argument, as for instance the variety and formation of God's creatures in the animal, vegetable, and...