 | 1873 - 812 pages
...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 G.od, as manifested in the creation." Mr. Davies Gilbert, who occupied the chair of the royal society when the earl died, decided that eight... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1874 - 530 pages
...and paid by him to the person or persons whom he should appoint to write 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 of God's... | |
 | Charles Gibbon - 1878 - 402 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." Dr Thomas Chalmers was selected for the task ; and he produced a work under the foregoing title. He... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1879 - 608 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.' The then President of the Royal Society, Davies Gilbert, appointed eight gentlemen to write separate... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1879 - 852 pages
...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... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 724 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 arguments ; аз, for instance, the variety and formation... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1114 pages
...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 God, as manifested in the creation, illustrating each work by all reasonable arguments, as, for instance, the varietv and formation of... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 pages
...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 God, as manifested in the creation, illustrating each work by all reasonable arguments, as, for instance, the variety and formation of... | |
 | 1901 - 530 pages
...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 - 412 pages
...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 God, as manifested in the Creation ; illustrating such work by all reasonable arguments, as, for instance, the variety and formation of... | |
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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,... 
