 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 626 pages
...or delightful contemplation, of these transcendent aims, for their own sake only, the mind of man is is raised from low and perishable objects, and prepared...appointed for all those who are capable of them.' We rejoice at this testimony to the intrinsic worth of scientific pursuits, and the pure and ennobling... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1831 - 710 pages
...the love or delightful contemplation and pursuit of these transcendent aims for their own sake only, the mind of man is raised from low and perishable...are appointed for all those who are capable of them. The heavens afford the most sublime subject of study which can be derived from science : the magnitude... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 618 pages
...goodness. By the love, or delightful contemplation, of these transcendent aims, for their own sake only, the mind of man is raised from low and perishable...appointed for all those who are capable of them.' We rejoice at this testimony to the intrinsic worth of scientific pursuits, and the pure and ennobling... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 614 pages
...goodness. By the love, or delightful contemplation, of these transcendent aims, for their own sake only, the mind of man is raised from low and perishable...appointed for all those who are capable of them.' We rejoice at this testimony to the intrinsic worth of scientific pursuits, and the pure and ennobling... | |
 | Alexander Copland - 1832 - 586 pages
...the love of delightful contemplation and pursuit of these transcendent aims for their own sake only, the mind of man is raised from low and perishable...which are appointed for all those who are capable of them."t " The just Creator condescends to write, In beams of inextinguishable light, His names of Wisdom,... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1832 - 340 pages
...contemplation and pursuit of these transcendant aims for their own sake only, he represented the mind of man as raised from low and perishable objects, and prepared...are appointed for all those who are capable of them. The application to moral qualities of terms which denote outward beauty, though by him perhaps carried... | |
 | 1834 - 512 pages
...the love or delightful contemplation and pursuit of these transcendent aims, for their own sake only, the mind of man is raised from low and perishable...appointed for all those who are capable of them," dwindle into insignificance, or even become invisible; and tliat not only man, but the globe he inhabits,—nay,... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1834 - 390 pages
...the love or delightful contemplation and pursuit of these transcendent aims, for their own sake only, the mind of man is raised from low and perishable...appointed for all those who are capable of them.' The heavens afford the most sublime subject of study which can be derived from science. The magnitude... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1834 - 666 pages
...the love or delightful contemplation and pursuit of these transcendent aims, for their own sake only, the mind of man is raised from low and perishable...appointed for all those who are capable of them.' The heavens afford the most sublime subject of studv which can be derived from science. The magnitude... | |
 | 1834 - 560 pages
...and pursuit of these transcendent aims, for their own sake only, the mind of man is raised from lo\v and perishable objects, and prepared for those high...appointed for all those who are capable of them." ' The heavens afford the most sublime subject of study which can bo derived from science. The magnitude... | |
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... and of that supreme and eternal mind, which contains all truth and wisdom, all beauty and goodness. By the love or delightful contemplation and pursuit of these transcendent aims for their own sake only, the mind of man is raised from low and perishable... 
