 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1839 - 490 pages
...Will £S000 to the President of thi Royal Society, to be given to such Person or Persons, as he might appoint for writing a Work " On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God us manifested in the Creation." Agreeably to this bequest, the President of the Royal Society,... | |
 | Anthony Nesbit - 1841 - 208 pages
...Persons, selected by the said 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 ; " illustrating such Work, by all reasonable Arguments, as for Instance, the Variety and Formation... | |
 | George Combe - 1841 - 464 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 work by all reasonable arguments, as, for instance, the variety and formation of... | |
 | George Combe - 1841 - 454 pages
...paying 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 work by all reasonable arguments, as, for instance, the variety and formation of... | |
 | Philip Alexander Prince - 1843 - 790 pages
...he should appoint ; each of such" persons being bound to write, print, and publish, 1000 copies of a work on the power, wisdom, and goodness of God, as manifested in the creation. The president, with the advice of the archbishops and bishops, agreed on selecting eight men of talent... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - 1846 - 414 pages
...nominated and appointed by him to write, print, publish, and expose to public sale 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 argument." Thus originated the celebrated Bridgewater Treatises.... | |
 | New general biographical dictionary - 1848 - 528 pages
...selected by the said president should be appointed 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 work by all reasonable arguments ; as, for instance, the variety and formation of... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - 1848 - 532 pages
...selected by the said president should be appointed 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 sucli work by all reasonable arguments ; as, for instance, the variety and formation of... | |
 | 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... | |
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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,... 
