 | 1827 - 698 páginas
...vain and unprofitable reading. If it be a pleasure to gratify curiosity, to know what we were ignorant of, to have our feelings of wonder called forth, how...extraordinary discoveries of Mechanical Philosophy. How wonderfid are the laws that regulate the motions of fluids ! Is there anything in all the idle books... | |
 | 1828 - 496 páginas
...Tarry thou till I come" — and the destroying angel passed him by. COMPARATIVE PLEASURES OF SCIEiNCE. HOW wonderful are the laws that regulate the motions of fluids ! Is there anything in all the idle books of tales and, horrors more truly astonishing than the fact, that a few... | |
 | 1829 - 522 páginas
...to gratify curiosity, to know what we were ignorant of, to have our feelings of wonder called *brlh, how pure a delight of this very kind does Natural...Mechanical Philosophy. How wonderful are the laws thut regulate the motions of fluids! Is there any thing in all the idle books of tales and horrors... | |
 | 1832 - 510 páginas
...vain and unprofitable reading. If it be a pleasure to gratify curiosity, to know what we were ignorant of, to have our feelings of wonder called forth, how...kind does natural science hold out to its students 1 Recollect some of the extraordinary discoveries of mechanical philosophy. How wonderful are the laws... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1833 - 288 páginas
...study of the sciences. If it be a pleasure to gratify curiosity—to know what we were ignorant of—to have our feelings of wonder called forth, how pure...extraordinary discoveries of mechanical philosophy^ Is there any thing in all the idle books of tales and horrors, with which youthful readers arc so much... | |
 | 1833 - 436 páginas
...and unprofitable reading. If it be a pleasure to gratify cu riosity, to know what we were ignorant of, to have our feelings of wonder called forth, how pure a delight of this very kind doe« Natural Science hold out to its students ! Recollect some of the extraordinary discoveries of... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1838 - 270 páginas
...the study of the sciences. If it be a pleasure to gratify curiosity — to know what we were ignorant of — to have our feelings of wonder called forth,...extraordinary discoveries of mechanical philosophy. Is there any thing in all the idle books of tales and horrors, with which youthful readers are so much... | |
 | Henry Mayhew - 1842 - 58 páginas
...pleasure," proceeds the writer, " to gratify curiosity — to know what we were ignorant of — to haee our feelings of wonder called forth, how pure a delight of this eery kind does natural science hold out to ils students ! Kccollect, some of the extraordinary discoveries... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1843 - 342 páginas
...vain and unprofitable reading. If it be a pleasure to gratify curiosity, to know what we were ignorant of, to have our feelings of wonder called forth, how...discoveries of Mechanical Philosophy. How wonderful are tin laws that regulate the motions of fluids ! Is there anything in all the idle books of tales and... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1846 - 566 páginas
...vain and unprofitable reading. If it be a pleasure to gratify curiosity, to know what we were ignorant of, to have our feelings of wonder called forth, how...laws that regulate the motions of fluids ! Is there anything in all the idle books of tales and horrors more truly astonishing than the fact, that a few... | |
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If it be a pleasure to gratify curiosity, to know what we were ignorant of, to have our feelings of wonder called forth, how pure a delight of this very kind does natural science hold out to its students ! Recollect some of the extraordinary discoveries... 
