 In entering this observation in the Obituary of the Astronomical Society, the distinguished Secretary naturally regarded Mrs. Somerville's early training from the point of view of the gains and losses of Science. Readers of the book before us will probably...  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - Page 191by Royal Astronomical Society - 1873Full view - About this book
 | Royal Astronomical Society - 1873 - 654 pages
...seemed to be adequately met by according to her the privilege of following her own devices. We fhall never know certainly, though it may be that hereafter...all but utter neglect of the unusual powers of Mary Fairfax-s mind. We may rejoice that, through an accident, she was permitted to reach the position she... | |
 | 1874 - 614 pages
...Recollections of Mrs. Somerville. By her Daughter, Martha Somerville. London, 1873. shall never certainly know, though it may be that hereafter we shall be able to...neglect of the unusual powers of Mary Fairfax's mind.' * In entering this observation in the Obituary of the Astronomical Society, the distinguished Secretary... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 pages
...APRIL, 1874. $ Old Series Comi píete ¡n 63 vols. MARY SOMERVILLE.* ' WE shall never certainly know, though it may be that hereafter we shall be able to...utter neglect of the unusual powers of Mary Fairfax's mind.'t In entering this observation in the Obituary of the Astronomical Society, the distinguished... | |
 | 1874 - 618 pages
...Daughter, Martha Somerville. London, 1873. ' 'VT7"E shall never certainly know, though it may be that TV hereafter we shall be able to guess, what Science...neglect of the unusual powers of Mary Fairfax's mind.' * In entering this observation in the Obituary of the Astronomical Society, the distinguished Secretary... | |
 | 1874 - 606 pages
...Daughter, Martha Somerville. London, 1873. ' '\^7'E shaU never certainly know, though it may be that TT hereafter we shall be able to guess, what Science...neglect of the unusual powers of Mary Fairfax's mind.' * In entering this observation in the Obituary of the Astronomical Society, the distinguished Secretary... | |
 | 1874 - 616 pages
...Daughter, Martha Somerville. London, 1873. ' ~\/\7"E shall never certainly know, though it may be that VV hereafter we shall be able to guess, what Science...the all but utter neglect of the unusual powers of MaryFairfax's mind.' * In entering this observation in the Obituary of the Astronomical Society, the... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1874 - 320 pages
...Somerville was subjected permanently crippled her genins, exclaims, " We shall never certainly know, though it may be that hereafter we shall be able to...what science lost through the all but utter neglect oT the unusual powers of MARY FAIRFAX'S mlnd. One is swept away as by a torrent, when BUCKLEY in a... | |
 | 1874 - 256 pages
...shall never certainly know, though it may bo that hereafter we shall be able to guess, what ecicncc lost, through the all but utter neglect of the unusual powers of Mary Fairfax's mind.' Again : ' There is scarcely a line of her writings which docs not, while showing what she was, suggest... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1874 - 324 pages
...Somerville was subjected permanently crippled her genius, exclaims, " We shall never certainly know, though it may be that hereafter we shall be able to guess, wjjat science lost through the all but utter neglect of the unusual powers of MARY FAIRFAN'S mind.... | |
 | Alexander Hay Japp - 1883 - 430 pages
...Monthly Notes of the Royal Astronomical Society for Feb. 1873: — "We shall never certainly know, though it may be that hereafter we shall be able to guess, what Science has lost through the all but utter neglect of the unusual powers of Mary Fairfax's mind." Brave, patient,... | |
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