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" Equally conspicuous is the goodness of the great First Cause, in having endowed man with faculties by which he can not only appreciate the magnificence of His works, but trace, with precision, the operation of his laws ; use the globe he inhabits as a... "
On the Connection of the Physical Sciences - Page 2
by Mary Somerville - 1846 - 460 pages
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 47

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
...afford the most sublime subject of study which can be derived from science : the magnitude and splendour of the objects, the inconceivable rapidity with which...distance of the sun and planets, and make the diameter of the earth's orbit the first step of a scale by which he may ascend to the starry firmament. Such...
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Mechanism of the Heavens

Mary Somerville - 1831 - 720 pages
...of the energy that maintains them in their motions with a durability to which we can see no limits. Equally conspicuous is the goodness of the great First...distance of the sun and planets, and make the diameter of the earth's orbit the first step of a scale by which he may ascend to the starry firmament. Such...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 47

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
...afford the most sublime subject of study which can be derived from science : the magnitude and splendour of the objects, the inconceivable rapidity with which...distance of the sun and planets, and make the diameter of the earth's orbit the first step of a scale by which he may ascend to the starry firmament. Such...
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On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences

Mary Somerville - 1834 - 484 pages
...afford the most sublime subject of study which can be derived from science. The magnitude and splendour of the objects, the inconceivable rapidity with which...distance of the sun and planets, and make the diameter of the earth's orbit the first step of a scale by which he may ascend to the starry firmament. Such...
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The British Critic, Quarterly Theological Review, and ..., Volume 16

1834 - 512 pages
...afford the most sublime subject of study which can be derived from science. The magnitude and splendour of the objects, the inconceivable rapidity with which...distance of the sun and planets, and make the diameter of the earth's orbit the first step of a scale by which he may ascend to the starry firmament. Such...
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On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences

Mary Somerville - 1834 - 666 pages
...having endowed man with faculties by which he can not only appreciate the magnificence of His works, B 2 but trace, with precision, the operation of his laws...distance of the sun and planets, and make the diameter of the earth's orbit the first step of a scale by which he may ascend to the starry firmament. Such...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volume 25

1844 - 288 pages
...conspicuous is the goodness of the great First Cause, in having endowed man with faculties, by which ho can not only appreciate the magnificence of his works,...trace, with precision, the operation of his laws, use flic globe he inhabits as a base wherewith to measure the magnitude and distance of the sun and planets,...
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The kaleidoscope of anecdotes and aphorisms, collected by C. Sinclair

Catherine Sinclair - 1851 - 420 pages
...afford the most sublime subject of study which can be derived from science. The magnitude and splendour of the objects, the inconceivable rapidity with which...magnificence of His works, but trace, with precision, 4he operation of His laws ; use the globe He inhabits as a base wherewith to measure the magnitude...
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Queries: Devoted to Literature, Art, Science, Education, Volume 1

1885 - 286 pages
...The heavens afford the most sublime subject of study which can be derived from science. The magnitude and splendor of the objects, the inconceivable rapidity...distance of the sun and planets, and make the diameter of the earth's orbit the first step of a scale by which he may ascend to the starry firmament. Such...
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The Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopædia of Universal Authorship ...

Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 482 pages
...of the energy that maintains them in their motions with a durability to which we can see no limits. Equally conspicuous is the goodness of the great First...precision, the operation of his laws, use the globe he inhabite as a base wherewith to measure the magnitude and distance of the sun and planets, and make...
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