 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 viby Mary Somerville - 1831 - 621 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mary Somerville - 1871 - 490 pages
...delightful contemplation and pursuit of these transcendent aims, for their own sake only, the <nind of man is raised from low and perishable objects,...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... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1871 - 616 pages
...contemplation ana pursuit of these transcendent aims for their own sake only, he represented the mind of man as raised from low and perishable objects, and prepared...which are appointed for all those who are capable of enjoying them. The application to moral qualities of terms which denote outward beauty, though by him... | |
 | 1872 - 598 pages
...unmixed with blood or adventitious matter. By the love or delightful contemplation of science, for its own sake only, the mind of man is raised from low...are appointed for all those who are capable of them. POPULAR SCIENCE. THE MECHANISM OF NATURE ESSENTIAL TO ART. BY JAMES B. COLEMAK, MD THE mechanism of... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 pages
...and wisdom, nil beauty and goodness. By the love or delightful contemplation of these transcendant aims, for their own sake only, the mind of man is raised from low and perishable things, and prepared for his high destiny.'* What Mrs. Somerville might have achieved had she devoted... | |
 | 1874 - 614 pages
...and wisdom, all beauty and goodness. By the .love or delightful contemplation of these transcendant aims, for their own sake only, the mind of man is raised from low and perishable things, and prepared for his high destiny.' * What Mrs. Somerville might have achieved had she devoted... | |
 | 1874 - 618 pages
...and wisdom, all beauty and goodness. By the love or delightful contemplation of these transcendant aims, for their own sake only, the mind of man is raised from low and perishable things, and prepared for his high destiny.'* What Mrs. Somerville might have achieved had she devoted... | |
 | 1874 - 616 pages
...and wisdom, all beauty and goodness. By the love or delightful contemplation of these trunscendant aims, for their own sake only, the mind of man is raised from low and perishable things, and prepared for his high destiny.'* What Mrs. Somerville might have achieved had she devoted... | |
 | 1874 - 606 pages
...beauty and goodness. By the love or delightful contemplation of these transcendant aims, for their own own sake only, the mind of man is raised from low and perishable things, and prepared for his high destiny.' * What Mrs. Somerville might have achieved had she devoted... | |
 | William Benton Clulow - 1877 - 578 pages
...contemplation and pursuit of these transcendent aims for their own sake only, he represented the mind of man as raised from low and perishable objects, and prepared...appointed for all those who are capable of them." "His works," he afterwards asserts, "are the storehouse from which moralists have from age to age borrowed... | |
 | 1881 - 552 pages
...which contains all truth and wisdom, all beauty and goodness. By the love or delightful contera plation of these transcendent aims, for their own sake only,...the mind of man is raised from low and perishable objecte, and prepared for those high destinies which are appointed for all who are capable of them.... | |
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