 is to inspire the love of truth, of wisdom, of 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 the love or delightful contemplation and pursuit...  On the Connection of the Physical Sciences - Page 7by Mary Somerville - 1846 - 460 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1830 - 644 pages
...was * to inspire the love of truth, of wisdom, of beauty, especially of goodness, the highest beauty, and of that supreme and eternal mind, which contains all truth and wisdom, all beauty and goodness.' Vague as his language was, it is evident that Socrates wished to raise the mind from mean and transitory... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1831 - 720 pages
...is to inspire the love of truth, of wisdom, of beauty, especially of goodness, the highest beauty, and of that supreme and eternal mind, which contains...man is raised from low and perishable objects, and prepared for those high destinies which are appointed for all those who are capable of them. The heavens... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1832 - 380 pages
...is to inspire the love of truth, of wisdom, of beauty, especially of goodness, the highest beauty, and of that supreme and eternal mind, which contains...love or delightful contemplation and pursuit of these transccndant aims for their own sake only, he represented the mind of man as raised from low and perishable... | |
 | 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
..." to inspire the love of truth, of wisdom, of beauty, especially of goodness, the highest beauty," and of that supreme and eternal Mind which contains...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... | |
 | 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
..." to inspire the love of truth, of wisdom, of beauty, especially of goodness, the highest beauty," and of that supreme and eternal Mind which contains...goodness. By the love, or delightful contemplation, of these transcendent aims, for their own sake only, the mind of man is is raised from low and perishable... | |
 | 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
...which contains all truth and wisdom, all beauty and goodness. By the love, or delightful contemplation, of these transcendent aims, for their own sake only,...man is raised from low and perishable objects, and prepared for those high destinies which are appointed for all those who are capable of them.' We rejoice... | |
 | Alexander Copland - 1832 - 586 pages
...is to inspire the love of truth, of wisdom, of beauty, especially of goodness, the highest beauty, and of that supreme and eternal mind, which contains...truth and wisdom, all beauty and goodness. By the love of delightful contemplation and pursuit of these transcendent aims for their own sake only, the mind... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1834 - 666 pages
...is to inspire the love of truth, of wisdom, of beauty, especially of goodness, the highest beauty, and of that supreme and eternal Mind, which contains...man is raised from low and perishable objects, and prepared for those high destinies which are appointed for all those who are capable of them.' The heavens... | |
 | 1834 - 512 pages
...is to inspire the love of truth, of wisdom, of beauty, especially of goodness, the highest beauty, and of that supreme and eternal Mind, which contains...man is raised from low and perishable objects, and prepared for those high destinies which are appointed for all those who are capable of them," dwindle... | |
 | 1834 - 560 pages
...is to inspire the love of truth, of wisdom, of beauty, especially of goodness, the highest beauty, and of that supreme and eternal Mind, which contains...their own sake only, the mind of man is raised from lo\v and perishable objects, and prepared for those high destinies which are appointed for all those... | |
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