 | Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall - 1801 - 674 páginas
...cannot gei on without it. They cannot understand or keep pace with the daily improvements of manufacture without scientific knowledge: and scientific knowledge...furnish a century ago. I wish that were the case here; hut it is not so. I fear it is not true, that we are the most enlightened people upon the face of the... | |
 | 1813 - 706 páginas
...not insulated; it must rest upon previous learning. The tradesmen of Great Britain, at this ii,,y, can furnish more profound thinkers on philosophical...I wish that were the case here; but it is not so. 1 fear it is not true, that we are the most enlightened people upon the face of the earth; unless the... | |
 | 1831 - 632 páginas
...Why is it that the tradesmen of Great Britain, as has been truly remarked, "can furnish at this day, more profound thinkers on philosophical subjects,...told, than all Europe could furnish a century ago?" It is because Chemistry and the physical sciences have attracted there the attention due them. If the... | |
 | 1824 - 476 páginas
...it must rest upon previous learning. The tradesmen of Great Britain, at thi* 37 •lay, can furnivh more profound thinkers on philosophical subjects,...real philosophers thrice told, than all Europe could afford a century ago. I wiih that were the caae here, but it is not so." from the Columbia Memorial.... | |
 | \ - 1824 - 452 páginas
...the demand of raw materials." 5. "The intreduction of manufactures would cx„ Лау, can fprnish more profound thinkers on philosophical subjects,...real philosophers thrice told, than all Europe could afford a century ago. I wish that were tin' case here, but it is not so." fVoni the Columbia Memorial.... | |
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Britain at this day, can furnish more profound thinkers on philosophical subjects, more acute and accurate experimenters^ more real philosophers, thrice told, than all Europe could furnish a century ago. I wish that were the case here; but it is not so. 