 | 1827 - 698 pages
...great things for which Providence has fitted his understanding, the extraordinary disproportion which there is between his natural strength and the powers of his mind, and the force which he derives from those powers. When we survey the marvellous truths of Astronomy, we are first... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1826 - 596 pages
...his natural strength and the powers of his mind, and the force which he derives from those powers. When we survey the marvellous truths of Astronomy,...gratification and of new wonder at perceiving how so insignificant a creature has been able to reach such a knowlege of the unbounded system of the universe... | |
 | 1826 - 1138 pages
...his mind, and the force which he derives from those powers. When we survey the marvellous truths o/ Astronomy, we are first of all lost in the feeling...immense space, and of the comparative insignificance of tins globe and its inhabitants. But there soon arises a sense of gratification and of new wonder at... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1826 - 600 pages
...great things for which Providence has fitted his understanding, the extraordinary disproportion which there is between his natural strength and the powers of his mind, and the force which he derives from those powers. When we survey the marvellous truths of Astronomy, we are first... | |
 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1827 - 68 pages
...great things for which Providence has fitted hrs understanding, the extraordinary disproportion which there is between his natural strength and the powers of his mind, and the force which he derives from those powers. When we survey the marvellous truths of Astronomy, we are first... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1828 - 248 pages
...things for which Providence has fitted his understanding — the extraordinary disproportion which there is between his natural strength, and the powers...gratification and of new wonder at perceiving how so insignificant a creature has been able to reach such a knowledge of the unbounded system of the... | |
 | 1829 - 522 pages
...things for which Providence has fitted his understanding — the extraordinary disproportion which there is between his natural strength, and the powers...gratification and of new wonder at perceiving how so insignificant a creature has been able to reach such a knowledge of the unbounded system of the... | |
 | 1829 - 522 pages
...things for which Providence lias fitted his understanding — the extraordinary disproportion which there is between his natural strength, and the powers...Astronomy, we are first of all lost in the feeling oí immense space, and of the comparative insignificance of this globe and its inhabitants. But there... | |
 | 1829 - 838 pages
...the great things for which Providence lias fitted his understanding; the extraordinary disproportion there is between his natural strength, and the powers of his mind, and the force which he derives from these powers." It is an absence of this tact for philosophical researches into... | |
 | William Russell - 1828 - 910 pages
...and tho force which he derives from these powers. When we survey tho marvellous truths of Astrouomy, we are first of all lost in the feeling of immense...gratification and of new wonder, at perceiving how so insignificant a creature has 42 SELF IMPROVEMENT FOR ADULTS. been able to reach such a knowledge... | |
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... treats which science affords us is the knowledge of the extraordinary powers with which the human mind is endowed. No man, until he has studied philosophy, can have a just idea of the great things for which Providence has fitted his understanding... 
