 Nothing, then, can be more unfounded than the objection which has been taken in limine, by persons, well meaning perhaps, certainly narrow-minded, against the study of natural philosophy, and, indeed, against all science, — that it fosters in its cultivators...  The American Library of Useful Knowledge - 第 271 頁1831 - 320 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | 1831 - 602 頁
...struggle, and give a new hope to mankind by the new victory of their freedom ! NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. NOTHING can be more unfounded than the objection which has been taken, in litnine, by persons, well meaning perhaps, certainly narrow-minded, against the study of natural philosophy,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1831 - 570 頁
...— one of the finest essays on the moral conduct of the intellect winch has ever been produced. ' Nothing, then, can "be more unfounded than the objection...narrow-minded, against the study of natural philosophy, — that it fosters in its cultivators an undue and overweening self-conceit, leads them to doubt the... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1831 - 906 頁
...communicate no idea. The author thus, on a broad scale, defends the study of natural philosophy. " Nothing, then, can be more unfounded than the objection which has been taken, in lit. ilnc. by persons, well meaning perhaps, certainly narrow-minded, against the study of natural... | |
 | 1832 - 872 頁
...way, endowed with acute senses and higher faculties, he shall drink deep at tliat fountain of benefit, wisdom, for which the slight taste obtained on earth, has given him so keen a relish." Hertchel. Introduction to the Study of Natural Philosophy. ÏUbuto. The Cyclopedia of Practical Medicine.... | |
 | 1834 - 512 頁
...intellect falls hack on itself in utter hopelessness of arriving at an end."—p. 4. And again:— " Nothing, then, can be more unfounded than the objection...study of natural philosophy, and indeed against all science,—that it fosters in its cultivators an undue and overweening self-conceit, leads them to... | |
 | 1837 - 574 頁
...the present subject. After showing that, after all, man is but a being "darkly wise," he proceeds: " Nothing, then, can be more unfounded than the objection...against the study of natural philosophy, and indeed ao-ainst all science,—that it fosters in its cultivators an undue and O overweening self-conceit,... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 頁
...endowed with acuter senses, and higher faculties, he shall drink deep at that fountain of beneficent wisdom for which the slight taste obtained on earth has given him so keen a relish ? 'el' ' ,.,,..:. THE LAWS OF NATURE.— Arnott. ' Acquaintance with the laws of nature has been very... | |
 | William Buckland - 1837 - 646 頁
...we ought not to ex* Bacon De Augm. Scient. Lib. IX. ch. i. t " Nothing,'' says Sir IFW Herschel, " can be more unfounded than the objection which has been taken in limine, by persons, well-meaning perhaps, certainly narrow minded, against the study of natural philosophy, and indeed... | |
 | 1831 - 602 頁
...— one of the finest essays on the moral conduct of the intellect which has ever been produced. ' Nothing, then, can be more unfounded than the objection...narrow-minded, against the study of natural philosophy, — that it fosters in its cultivators an undue and overweening self-conceit, leads them to doubt the... | |
 | 1839 - 532 頁
...getting the picture, but you shall muke a copy for me." ON THE STUDY OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. NOTHING can be more unfounded than the objection which has...narrow-minded, against the study of natural philosophy : that it fosters in its cultivators an undue and overweening self-conceit ; leads them to doubt the... | |
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