 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1831 - 310 pages
...occur but for some such casual notice. Boyle has entitled one of his essays thus remarkably, — " Of Man's great Ignorance of the Uses of natural Things...or that there is no one Thing in Nature whereof the Uses to human Life are yet thoroughly understood."* The whole history of the arts since Boyle's time... | |
 | Sir Thomas Wyse - 1836 - 578 pages
...way, to their treasures and applications ? « " Boyle entitled one of his Essays thus remarkably, ' Of Man's great Ignorance of the Uses of Natural Things...that there is no one Thing in Nature, whereof the Uses to Human Life are yet thoroughly understood.' The whole history of the arts since Boyle's time... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1837 - 590 pages
...dispelled and her modesty preserved. Boyle has entitled one of his essays thus remarkably — " of man's great ignorance of the uses of natural things;...or that there is no one thing in nature whereof the uses to human life are yet thoroughly understood," yet the garrulous men whom Pindar compares to crows,... | |
 | Thomas Wright (of Borthwick, Scotland.) - 1844 - 572 pages
...occur but for some such casual notice. Boyle has entitled one of his essays thus remarkably — ' Of man's great ignorance of the uses of natural things,...or that there is no one thing in nature whereof the uses to human life are yet thoroughly understood.' The whole history of the arts since Boyle's time... | |
 | Royal School of Mines (Great Britain) - 1852 - 578 pages
...their first announcement. Boyle knew that he wrote an imperishable truth when he titled his Essay " Man's great ignorance of the uses of Natural Things...or, that there is no one thing in Nature whereof the uses to Human Life are yet thoroughly understood." This truth of the seventeenth century is no less... | |
 | Royal School of Mines (Great Britain) - 1852 - 164 pages
...their first announcement. Boyle knew that he wrote an imperishable truth when he titled his Essay " Man's great ignorance of the uses of Natural Things...or, that there is no one thing in Nature whereof the uses to Human Life are yet thoroughly understood." This truth of the seventeenth century is no less... | |
 | Margaret Fison - 1859 - 242 pages
...and experiments. When Boyle, in the seventeenth century, entitled his Essay, " Man's great Ignorance of Natural Things, or that there is no one thing in Nature whereof the Uses to Human Life are yet thoroughly Understood," he enunciated a truth, which we, of the nineteenth... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - 1860 - 374 pages
...had been anticipated in his observations by the Hon. Robert Boyle, in his Essay entitled " Of men's great ignorance of the uses of natural things ; or, that there is scarce any one thing in nature whereof the uses to human life are yet thoroughly understood." After... | |
 | 1861 - 634 pages
...of notice, and it is to these that we now wish to direct attention. One is entitled "Essays on men's great ignorance of the uses of natural things ; or, that there is scarce any one thing in nature whereof the uses to human life are yet thoroughly understood." It may... | |
 | 1865 - 886 pages
...offices of lecturers on scientific subjects. Boyle entitled one of his essays thus remarkably : — " Of Man's great Ignorance of the Uses of natural Things...or that there is no one Thing in Nature whereof the Uses to human Life we yet thoroughly understand." An eminent recent scientific writer observes, " The... | |
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Of Man's great Ignorance of the Uses of Natural Things ; or that there is no one thing in Nature whereof the uses to human life are yet thoroughly understood " — a saying which is still as true now as when it was written. 
