 | Charles Gibbon - 1878 - 402 pages
...the president of the Eoyal Society of London in paying any person or persons to be selected by him to " write, print, and publish one thousand copies...and goodness of God as manifested in the creation." Dr Thomas Chalmers was selected for the task ; and he produced a work under the foregoing title. He... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1879 - 608 pages
...trustees to invest in the public funds 80002., which sum was to be at the disposal of the President of the Royal Society of London, to be paid to the...president should be appointed to write, print, and publish 1000 copies of a work ' On the power, wisdom, and goodness of God, as manifested in the creation.'... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1879 - 852 pages
...society, to be given to some person or persons named by him, who should write, print, and publish 1,000 copies of a work "on the power, wisdom, and goodness of God, as manifested in the creation." Mr. Davies Gilbert, who occupied the chair of the royal society when the earl died, decided that eight... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1884 - 636 pages
...London, to be paid to the person or person* BRIDGETOWN. BRIEF. nominated by him. The testator farther directed that the person or persons selected by the...president should be Appointed to write, print, and publish 1000 copies of a work "on tho power, wisdom, and goodness of God, as manifested in the creation." The... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 pages
...The will further directed that when these persons were so selected they should be appointed to write pent his date In course reciprocal, and had his fate...flowing of the seas ; Yet (strange to think) his wain wa each work by all reasonable arguments, as, for instance, the variety and formation of Gfod's creatures... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 pages
...The will further directed that when these persons were so selected they should be appointed to write and publish one thousand copies of a work "on the...of God, as manifested in the creation, illustrating each work by all reasonable arguments, as, for instance, the varietv and formation of God's creatures... | |
 | 1901 - 530 pages
...bequeathing a sum of £8000, which should be paid to the person or persons chosen to write and publish 1000 copies of a work on the power, wisdom, and goodness of God as manifested in the creation. The result was eight works on animal and vegetable physiology, astronomy, geology, the history, habits,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 738 pages
...invested, was to be paid by the President to such person or persons as he, the President, should appoint to " write, print, and publish, one thousand copies of a work, On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of Gad, as manifested in the Creation ; illustrating such work by all reasonable arguments, as, for instance,... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1909 - 1116 pages
...The will further directed that when these persons were so selected they should be appointed to write and publish one thousand copies of a work "on the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of (Jod, as manifested in the creation, illustrating each work by all reasonable arguments, as, for instance,... | |
 | University of Iowa - 1921 - 876 pages
...of the year 1829, directed certain trustees mentioned in his Will to arrange for the publication of one thousand copies of a work On the Power, Wisdom,...and Goodness of God as Manifested in the Creation. Eight thousand pounds were to be invested in public funds to be paid by the President of the Royal... | |
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Pounds sterling ; this sum, with the accruing dividends thereon, to be held at the disposal of the President, for the time being, of the Royal Society of London, to be paid to the person or persons nominated by him. The Testator... 
