 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1826 - 596 pages
...reflect on them, fills the mind, and produces certain as well as pure gratification. Hut if the knowlege of the doctrines unfolded by science is pleasing,...see distinctly those grounds, so as to be satisfied tbat a belief in the doctrines is well founded. Hence to follow a demonstration of a grand mathematical... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1826 - 600 pages
...investigated, and their truth demonstrated : indeed you cannot be said, in any sense of the w<jrd, to have learnt them, or to know them, if you have...to follow a demonstration of a grand mathematical truth — to perceive how clearly and how inevitably one step succeeds another, and how the whole steps... | |
 | Great Britain - 1826 - 1138 pages
...to know them, if you have not so studied them as to perceive how they are proved. Without this yon never can expect to remember them long, or to understand...to follow a demonstration of a grand mathematical truth — to perceive how clearly and how inevitably one step succeeds another, and how the whole steps... | |
 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1827 - 68 pages
...same power which makes a stone fall to the ground ? To learn these things, and to reflect upon them, fills the mind, and produces certain as well as pure...to follow a demonstration of a grand mathematical truth — to perceive how clearly and how inevitably one step succeeds another, and how the whole steps... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Mathematics - 1828 - 248 pages
...the very instrument and the process by which Nature works ? Then we raise our views to the structure of the heavens ; and are again gratified with tracing...to follow a demonstration of a grand mathematical truth — to perceive how clearly and how inevitably one step succeeds another, and how the whole steps... | |
 | Physics - 1829 - 522 pages
...the globe itself; and that, after all, it is the same power which makes a stone fall to the ground 1 To learn these things, and to reflect upon them, occupies...to follow a demonstration of a grand mathematical truth — to perceive how clearly and how inevitably one step succeeds another, and how the whole steps... | |
 | 1829 - 522 pages
...their truth demonstrated: indeed \ou cannot be said, in any sense of the word, to have learnt ihem, or to know them, if you have not so studied them as...to follow a demonstration of a grand mathematical truth — to perceive how clearly and how inevitably one step succeeds another, and how the whole steps... | |
 | William Russell - Education - 1828 - 910 pages
...them, if you have not so studied them as to perceive how they are proved. Without this you can never expect to remember them long, or to understand them...to follow a demonstration of a grand mathematical truth — to perceive how clearly and how inevitably one step succeeds another, and how the whole steps... | |
 | Science - 1831 - 336 pages
...same power which makes a stone fall to the ground ? To learn these things, and to reflect upon them, fills the mind, and produces certain as well as pure...to follow a demonstration of a grand mathematical truth — to perceive how clearly and how inevitably one step succeeds another, and how the whole steps... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1832 - 510 pages
...same power which makes a stone fall to the ground 1 To learn these things, and to reflect upon them, fills the mind, and produces certain as well as pure...to follow a demonstration of a grand mathematical truth — to perceive how clearly and how inevitably one step succeeds another, and how the whole steps... | |
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To learn these things, and to reflect upon them, occupies the faculties, fills the mind, and produces certain as well as pure gratification. But if the knowledge of the doctrines unfolded by science is pleasing, so is the being able to trace the steps... 
