 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1856 - 442 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... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1856 - 470 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... | |
 | 1859 - 736 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. * * * It is surely no mean reward of our labor to become acquainted... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1859 - 660 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. * * * It is surely no mean reward of our labor to become acquainted... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1859 - 656 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 ho derives from those powers. * * * It is surely no mean reward of our labor to become acquainted... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1859 - 686 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, ami the force which he derives from those powers. * * * It is surely no mean reward of our labor to... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1865 - 560 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 he derives from them." Finally, he concludes that science would not only " make our lives more agreeable, but better : and... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 458 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... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1872 - 696 pages
...things for which Providence has fitted his understanding; the extraordinary disproportion which there ia between his natural strength and the powers of his mind, and the force he derives from them." Finally, he concludes that science would not only " make our lives more agreeable, but better ; and... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 1895 - 304 pages
...his natural strength and the powers of his mind, and the force which he derives from these 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 knowledge of the unbounded system of the... | |
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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... 
