 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 726 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... | |
 | University of Iowa - 1921 - 876 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Morris - 1921 - 506 pages
...of £8000, which should be paid to the person or person« 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,... | |
 | Robert Maxwell Young - 1971 - 372 pages
...design and that the argument is cumulative, case by case. The Earl of Bridgewater left £8,000 for 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1969 - 1278 pages
...of Bridgwater (1756-1829), eccentric and scholar, left a bequest of £8000 as a prize for the best work "On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God as manifested in the Creation", the disposal of the fund to be at the discretion of the President of the Royal Society, then Davies... | |
 | Elisabeth Jay, Richard Jay - 1986 - 282 pages
...an eccentric clergyman, left a bequest of £8,000 in trust to the president of the Royal Society for work On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God, as Manifested in the Creation; Illustrating Such Work by All Reasonable Arguments. Eight works of natural theology were commissioned... | |
 | Richard J. Helmstadter - 1990 - 422 pages
...be devoted to securing a person or persons ... 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 God's... | |
 | Rosemary J. Mundhenk, LuAnn McCracken Fletcher - 1999 - 502 pages
...Bridgewater (1756—1829) and shared by the authors of Bridgewater Treatises on natural theology for the best work on the "Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation." For the faith in an Invisible, Unnameable, Godlike, present everywhere in all that we see and work... | |
 | Owsei Temkin - 2006 - 578 pages
...Egerton, eighth Earl of Bridgewater, who on his death in 1829 lef the sum of £8000 for the publication of a work On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation; illustrating such work by all reasonable argument, as for instance the variety and formation of God's... | |
 | 1837 - 672 pages
...in the will of the late Earl of Bridgewater, that persons should be appointed to write and publish a work " on the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation ;" for which a sum of £8,000 was bequeathed. Eight gentlemen, four of the clerical and four of the... | |
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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,... 
