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" If I have succeeded in my endeavour to make the laws by which the material world is governed, more familiar to my countrywomen, I shall have the gratification of thinking, that the gracious permission to dedicate my book to your Majesty has not been misplaced. "
On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences - Page iii
by Mary Somerville - 1849 - 524 pages
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 51

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 558 pages
...kind we have thus attempted to describe. In her simple and brief dedication to the Queen, she says, ' If I have succeeded in my endeavour to make the laws...dedicate my book to your Majesty has not been misplaced.' And if her ' countrywomen ' have already become tolerably familiar with the technical terms which the...
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On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences

Mary Somerville - 1834 - 484 pages
...V'i • SIDCCCXXXIV. '•"-. LONDON : PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES, Duke-Street, L*mbeth. Co tl)t MADAM, IF I HAVE SUCCEEDED IN MY ENDEAVOUR TO MAKE THE LAWS...NOT BEEN MISPLACED. I AM, WITH THE GREATEST RESPECT, YOUR MAJESTY'S OBEDIENT AND HUMBLE SERVANT, MARY SOMERVILLE. Royal Hospital, Chelsea, 1 Jan. 1S34....
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 51

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 568 pages
...kind we have thus attempted to describe. In her simple and brief dedication to the Queen, she says, ' If I have succeeded in my endeavour to make the laws...dedicate my book to your Majesty has not been misplaced.' And if her ' countrywomen ' have already become tolerably familiar with the technical terms which the...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 51

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 564 pages
...kind we have thus attempted to describe. In her simple and brief dedication to the Queen, she says, ' If I have succeeded in my endeavour to make the laws...permission to dedicate my book to your Majesty has not been misplaced.1 And if her ' countrywomen ' have already become tolerably familiar with the technical terms...
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 59

1834 - 560 pages
...of character that distinguish the accomplished author : — ' If I have succeeded in my endea' vour to make the laws by which the material world is governed...more familiar to my countrywomen, I shall have the gratifica' tion of thinking that the gracious permission to dedicate my ' book to your Majesty has...
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On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences

Mary Somerville - 1834 - 666 pages
...ALBEMARLE STREET. KDCCCXXXir. LONDON; PRINTED BV WILLIAM CLOWES, Duke-Street, Lambeth. Co tftt MADAM, IP I HAVE SUCCEEDED IN MY ENDEAVOUR TO MAKE THE LAWS BY WHICH THE MATERIAL WORLD IS GOVERNED MOKE FAMILIAR TO MY COUNTRYWOMEN, I SHALL HAVE THE GRATIFICATION OF THINKING, THAT THE GRACIOUS PERMISSION...
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The Printing machine (or, Companion to the library) [ed. by J.H.L. Hunt].

576 pages
...persons, have not been tied to any very precise terms. The intention of the author appears to have been " to make the laws by which the material world is governed more familiar to her countrywomen," — a most desirable object, but which cannot, we are afraid, be attained until...
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The Quarterly review, Volume 51

1834 - 562 pages
...kind we have thus attempted to describe. In her simple and brief dedication to the Queen, she says, ' If I have succeeded in my endeavour to make the laws by which the material world is governed) mpre familiar to my countrywomen, I shall have the gratification, pf thinking, that the gracious permission...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 14

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 602 pages
...command a wider circle of readers, and enjoy the " gratification" so much desired by herself, "of making the laws by which the material world is governed more familiar to her countrywomen." Mrs. Somcrvillc's work commences with a preliminary chapter on geology,* which ig...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 18

1848 - 690 pages
...command a wider circle of readers, and enjoy the " gratification" so much desired by herself, " of making the laws by which the material world is governed more familiar to her countrywomen." Mrs. Somerville'e work commences with a preliminary chapter on geology,* which is...
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