On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation; illustrating such work by all reasonable arguments, as for instance the variety and formation of God's creatures in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms; the effect of digestion,... Poems, Longer and Shorter - Page 1by Thomas Burbidge - 1838 - 356 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir John Barrow - 1849 - 246 pages
...persons nominated by him, which person or persons should write, print, and publish one thousand copies of a work ' On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation ;' illustrating such work by all reasonable arguments; as, for instance, on the variety and formation... | |
 | 1852 - 676 pages
...beneficent intensions which prompted the late Earl of Bridgewater to bequeath SOOOi for the production of a work On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation, were fully realised, when the late Mr. Davits Gilbert, the then President of the Royal Socii'iy. to... | |
 | 1853 - 1036 pages
...persons selected by the said president should bo appointed to write, print, and publish 1000 copies of a work ' On the power, wisdom, and goodness of God, as manifested in the creation.' He also desired that the profits arising from the sale of the works so published should be paid to... | |
 | 1857 - 894 pages
...the person or persons so selected, should be appointed to write and publish one thousand copies of a work, " on the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the creation, illustrating each work by all reasonable arguments ; as, for instance, the variety and formation of... | |
 | John Timbs - 1857 - 444 pages
...the person or persons so selected, should be appointed to write and publish one thousand copies of a work, " on the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the creation, illustrating each work by all reasonable arguments ; as, for instance, the variety and formation of... | |
 | William Fordyce - 1857 - 848 pages
...rebuilt, including an open timber roof, and an octagonal bell-tower and spire at the south-west angle work " On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation ;" and the productions resulting from this munificent bequest are popularly known as the Bridgewater... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1858 - 1026 pages
...paid to the person or persons who should be appointed by the President of the Royal Society to prepare a work "On the Power. Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested In the Creation, illustrating such work by all reasonable argu* ments; as, for instance, the variety and formation of... | |
 | Amédée Pichot - 1860 - 284 pages
...25th of February, 1825, left the sum of eight thousand pounds sterling to be given to the author of a work On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God as manifested in the Creation. The testamentary executors of the Earl, believing themselves authorized to interpret his intentions,... | |
 | george combe - 1860 - 388 pages
...any person or persons, to be selected by him, " to write, print, and publish one thousand copies of a work ' On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation;' illustrating such wor,k by all reasonable arguments, as, for instance, the variety and formation of... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1868 - 640 pages
...chiefly on account of bequeathing £8,000 to be applied to the publication of one thousand copies of a work " On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation," &c. This bequest elicited a series of separate works, known as the " Bridgewater Treatises," written... | |
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