| John Tyndall - Heat - 1863 - 500 pages
...from its source through infinitude. Presented rightly to the mind, the discoveries and generalizations of modern science constitute a poem more sublime than has ever yet been addressed to the intellect and imagination of man. The natural philosopher of to-day may dwell amid conceptions, which... | |
| 1863 - 568 pages
...reproaches for doing an injustice. " Presented rightly to the mind, the discoveries and generalizations of modern science constitute a poem more sublime than has ever yet been addressed to* the intellect and imagination of man. The natural philosopher of to-day may dwell amid conceptions which... | |
| John Tyndall - Heat - 1863 - 538 pages
...from its source through infinitude. Presented rightly to the mind, the discoveries and generalizations of modern science constitute a poem more sublime than has ever yet been addressed to the intellect and imagination' of man. The natural philosopher of to-day may dwell amid conceptions, which... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1864 - 554 pages
...constitute a poem more sublime than has ever yet been addressed to the intellect and imagination of man. The natural philosopher of to-day may dwell amid conceptions which beggar those of Milton." —P. 432. Grand as are the truths which this peroration is intended to set forth, we can not read... | |
| Industrial arts - 1865 - 372 pages
...or of training the same to an angle of 45° or more. NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. THE PHILOSOPHY OF TO-DAY. "THE natural philosopher of to-day may dwell amid...those of Milton. So great and grand are they, that ill the contemplation of them a certain force of character is requisite to preserve us from bewilderment.... | |
| John Tyndall - Heat - 1866 - 492 pages
...from its source through infinitude. Presented rightly to the mind, the discoveries and generalizations of modern science constitute a poem more sublime than has ever yet been addressed to the intellect and imagination of man. The natural philosopher of to-day may dwell amid conceptions, which... | |
| John Tyndall - Heat - 1868 - 560 pages
...are made of. and our little life Is rounded by a sleep. (724) Still, presented rightly to the mind, the discoveries and generalisations of modern science constitute a poem more sublime than has ever yet addressed the human imagination. The natural philosopher of to-day may dwell amid conceptions which... | |
| Henry Allon - Christianity - 1863 - 550 pages
...reproaches for doing an injustice. 'Presented rightly to the mind, the ' discoveries and generalizations of modern science constitute a ' poem more sublime than has ever yet been addressed to the in' tellect and imagination of man. The natural philosopher of to' day may dwell anu'd conceptions... | |
| John Tyndall - Heat - 1869 - 566 pages
...dreams are made of, and our little life Is rounded by a sleep. Still, presented rightly to the mind, the discoveries and generalisations of modern science...which beggar those of Milton. So great and grand are they^that in the contemplation of them a certain force of character is requisite to preserve us from... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1887 - 984 pages
...exaggerate, I think, in saying further: " Presented rightly to the mind, the discoveries and generalizations of modern science constitute a poem more sublime than has ever yet been addressed to the intellect and imagination of man. The natural philosopher of to-day may dwell amid conceptions which... | |
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