 | 1834 - 614 pages
...us to accomplish our ends in the easiest, shortest, most economical, and most effective manner. 4. In inducing us to attempt, and enabling us to accomplish,...knowledge, we should never have thought of undertaking."* The vast stock of practical knowledge which we now possess and employ in bringing about the ends of... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1831 - 514 pages
...us from important mistakes In attempting what is in itself possible, by means either inadequate er actually opposed to the end ' in view. " III. In enabling...of undertaking. " We shall, therefore, proceed to illustrale by examples the effect of physical knowledge under each of these heads. " 36. Ex. 1. (30)... | |
 | Books - 1831 - 660 pages
...accomplish our ends in the easiest, shortest, most economical, and most effectual manner. ' IV. In adducing us to attempt, and enabling us to accomplish, objects...therefore proceed to illustrate by examples the effect of physkal knowledge under each of those heads. ' Ex. 1. It is not many years since an attempt was made... | |
 | 1831 - 548 pages
...easiest, shortest, most economical, ' and most effectual manner. And, 4th. In inducing us to at' tempt, and enabling us to accomplish objects, which, but...knowledge, we should never have thought of undertak'ing." The engineer, then, who would neglect an acquaintance with the great laws of nature, is not the most... | |
 | 1831 - 444 pages
...shortest, most economical, and most effectual manner. IV. In inducing us to attempt, and ennhliii!» us to accomplish, objects which, but for such knowledge, we should never have thought of undertaking. We now proceed to illustrate by examples the effects of physical knowledge under each of those heads.... | |
 | Southern States - 1832 - 542 pages
...easiest, shortest, most economical, ' and most effectual manner. And, 4th. In inducing us to at' tempt, and enabling us to accomplish objects, which, but...' such knowledge, we should never have thought of undertak' ing." The engineer, then, who would neglect an acquaintance with the great laws of nature,... | |
 | Joseph Salway Eisdell - Economics - 1839 - 636 pages
...knowledge of the laws of nature, is of importance to mankind in each of these points of view : — " I. In showing us how to avoid attempting impossibilities....knowledge, we should never have thought of undertaking."* The closest union subsists between the arts of life and the sciences, as well abstract as physical.... | |
 | Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward - Growth (Plants). - 1842 - 118 pages
...to accomplish our ends in the easiest, shortest, most economical and most effectual manner. "4thly. In inducing us to attempt, and enabling us to accomplish...knowledge, we should never have thought of undertaking." — Herschel. CHAPTER II. ON THE CAUSES WHICH INTERFERE WITH THE NATURAL CONDITIONS OF PLANTS IN LARGE... | |
 | 1845 - 260 pages
...us to accomplish our ends in the easiest, shortest, most economical, and most effectual manner. +. In inducing us to attempt, and enabling us to accomplish...knowledge, we should never have thought of undertaking.— //enc/icl. IMAGINATION — They who cull themselves practised philosophers, and talk with contempt... | |
 | Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1845 - 862 pages
...enabling us to accomplish our ends in the easiest, shortest most economical, and most effectual manner. 4. In inducing us to attempt, and enabling us to accomplish...knowledge, we should never have thought of undertaking. — IfersdicL DOCS' 8CENT FOR CAME. There is a notion that dogs lose their scent or smell for game-birds... | |
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In securing us from important mistakes in attempting what is, in itself, possible, by means either inadequate, or actually opposed, to the end in view. 
