 of elevated meditation. The contemplation of the works of creation elevates the mind to the admiration of whatever is great and noble, accomplishing the object of all study, •which in the elegant language of Sir James Mackintosh is to inspire the love...  Mechanism of the Heavens - Page ivby Mary Somerville - 1831 - 621 pagesFull view - About this book
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...eloquently show that material wonders of creation may then as now meet our view, and surround us for ever. " The contemplation of the works of creation elevates...beauty, especially of goodness, the highest beauty, and of that supreme and eternal mind, which contains all truth and wisdom, all beauty and goodness. By... | |
 | 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
...elevated meditation. The contemplation of the works ai crraticm elevates the mind to the admiration uf whatever is great and noble, accomplishing the object...of all study which, in the elegant language of .Sir J. Mackintosh, is " to inspire the love of truth, of wifdoni, of beauty, especially of goodness, the... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1834 - 666 pages
...minute as to be justly disregarded, must ever afford occupation of consummate interest and subject of elevated meditation. The contemplation of the works...great and noble ; accomplishing the object of all study,—which, in the elegant language of Sir James Mackintosh, ' is to inspire the love of truth,... | |
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...minute as to be justly disregarded, must ever afford occupation of consummate interest and subject of elevated meditation. The contemplation of the works...great and noble ; accomplishing the object of all study,—which, in the elegant language of Sir James Mackintosh, * is to inspire the love of truth,... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1834 - 390 pages
...minute as to be justly disregarded, must ever afford occupation of consummate interest and subject of elevated meditation. The contemplation of the works...great and noble ; accomplishing the object of all study,—which, in the elegant language of Sir James Mackintosh, ' is to inspire the love of truth,... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1834 - 484 pages
...minute as to be justly disregarded, must ever afford occupation of consummate interest and subject of elevated meditation. The contemplation of the works...great and noble ; accomplishing the object of all study,—which, in the elegant language of Sir James Mackintosh, ' is to inspire the love of truth,... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1840 - 858 pages
...SCIENCE, regarded as the pursuit of truth, must ever afford occupation of consummate interest, and subject of elevated meditation. The contemplation of the works...accomplishing the object of all study, which, in the eloquent language of Sir James Mackintosh, " is to inspire the love of truth, of wisdom, of beauty... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1846 - 506 pages
...SCIENCE, regarded as the pursuit of truth, must ever afford occupation of consummate interest, and subject of elevated meditation. The contemplation of the works...accomplishing the object of all study, which, in the eloquent language of Sir James Mackintosh, "is to inspire the love of truth, of wisdom, of beauty—especially... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1846 - 496 pages
...SCIENCE, regarded as the pursuit of truth, must ever afford occupation of consummate interest, and subject of elevated meditation. The contemplation of the works...accomplishing the object of all study, which, in the eloquent language of Sir James Mackintosh, "is to inspire the love of truth, of wisdom, of beauty—especially... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1846 - 496 pages
...SCIENCE, regarded as the pursuit of truth, must ever afford occupation of consummate interest, and subject of elevated meditation. The contemplation of the works...accomplishing the object of all study, which, in the eloquent language of Sir James Mackintosh, " is to inspire the love of truth, of wisdom, of beauty—especially... | |
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