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" 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... "
Mechanism of the Heavens - Page vi
by Mary Somerville - 1831 - 621 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
...or delightful contemplation, of these transcendent aims, for their own sake only, the mind of man is is raised from low and perishable objects, and prepared...appointed for all those who are capable of them.' We rejoice at this testimony to the intrinsic worth of scientific pursuits, and the pure and ennobling...
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Mortal life; and the state of the soul after death, by a Protestant layman

Alexander Copland - 1832 - 586 pages
...supreme and eternal mind, which contains all truth and wisdom, all beauty and goodness. By the love of delightful contemplation and pursuit of these transcendent...which are appointed for all those who are capable of them."t " The just Creator condescends to write, In beams of inextinguishable light, His names of Wisdom,...
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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 - 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,...appointed for all those who are capable of them.' We rejoice at this testimony to the intrinsic worth of scientific pursuits, and the pure and ennobling...
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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
...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,...appointed for all those who are capable of them.' We rejoice at this testimony to the intrinsic worth of scientific pursuits, and the pure and ennobling...
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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 - 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, the mind of man is is raised from low and perishable objects, and prepared for those high destinies which are appointed...
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 59

1834 - 560 pages
...minute as to be justly disregarded, must ever afford occupation of consummate interest, and subject of elevated meditation. The contemplation of the works...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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The British Critic, Quarterly Theological Review, and ..., Volume 16

1834 - 512 pages
...to the admiration of whatever is great and noble ; accomplishing the object of all study,—which, in the elegant language of Sir James Mackintosh, *...appointed for all those who are capable of them," dwindle into insignificance, or even become invisible; and tliat not only man, but the globe he inhabits,—nay,...
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On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences

Mary Somerville - 1835 - 532 pages
...contemplation of the works of creation elevates the mind to the admiration of whatever is great and nohle ; accomplishing the object of all study, — which,...appointed for all those who are capable of them." In tracing the connection of the physical sciences, astronomy affords the most extensive example of...
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On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences

Mary Somerville - 1840 - 858 pages
...admiration of whatever is great and noble ; accomplishing the object of all study, which, in the eloquent language of Sir James Mackintosh, " is to inspire...appointed for all those who are capable of them." Astronomy affords the most extensive example of the connection of the physical sciences. In it are...
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On the Connection of the Physical Sciences

Mary Somerville - 1846 - 496 pages
...admiration of whatever is great and noble ; accomplishing the object of all study, which, in the eloquent language of Sir James Mackintosh, "is to inspire the...appointed for all those who are capable of them." Astronomy affords the most extensive example of the connection of the physical sciences. In it are...
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