 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 458 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... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 440 pages
...word, to have learnt them, or to know them, if you have not so studied them as to perceive how they arc proved. Without this you never can expect to remember...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... | |
 | Edward Law Hussey - Quotations - 1873 - 172 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...satisfied that a belief in the doctrines is well founded. — LORD BROUGHAM, A Discourse of the Objects, Advantages and Pleasures of Science, 1827. I believe... | |
 | Extracts - Quotations, English - 1883 - 246 pages
...steps by which those doctrines are investigated, and their truth demonstrated : indeed you can not be said, in any sense of the word, to have learnt...satisfied that a belief in the doctrines is well founded. — LORD BROUGHAM, Discourse of the Objects, Advantages and Pleasures of Science, 1827. All knowlege... | |
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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... 
