 | Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - 1891 - 900 páginas
...perceptions and discoveries. " The discoveries and generalizations of modern science, " says Tyndall, " constitute a poem more sublime than has ever yet been addressed to the imagination. The natural philosopher of to-day may dwell amid conceptions which beggar those of Milton.... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1863 - 500 páginas
...plates, he boils the water ; he draws the train. He not only grows the cotton, but he spins the fibre and weaves the web. There is not a hammer raised,...dwell amid conceptions, which beggar those of Milton. Se great and grand are they, that in the contemplation of them, a certain force of character is requisite... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1864 - 484 páginas
...energy is poured freely into space, but our world is a halting place where this energy is conT ditioned. Here the Proteus works his spells; the selfsame essence...dwell amid conceptions, which beggar those of Milton. Se great and grand are they, that in the contemplation of them, a certain force of character is requisite... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1864 - 554 páginas
...finally dissolves into its primitive and almost formless form. The sun comes to us as heat ; he ijuits us as heat ; and between his entrance and departure...dwell amid conceptions which beggar those of Milton." —P. 432. Grand as are the truths which this peroration is intended to set forth, we can not read... | |
 | 1864 - 632 páginas
...from its source through infinitude. Presented rightly to the mind, the discoveries and generalisations of modern science constitute a poem more sublime than...dwell amid conceptions which beggar those of Milton.' (P. 432.) Grand as are the truths which this peroration is intended to set forth, we cannot read them... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1865 - 494 páginas
...primitive and almost formless form. The sun comes to us as heat ; he quits us as heat ; and between bis entrance and departure the multiform powers of our...dwell amid conceptions, which beggar those of Milton. Se great and grand are they, that in the contemplation of them, a certain force of character is requisite... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1866 - 492 páginas
...ditioned. Here the Proteus works his spells ; the selfsame essence takes a million shapes and hue's, and finally dissolves into its primitive and almost...dwell amid conceptions, which beggar those of Milton. Se great and grand are they, that in the contemplation of them, a certain force of character is requisite... | |
 | Charles Bray - 1866 - 182 páginas
...indicating Force. Professor John Tyndall says in the eloquent peroration to his work on Heat: — -" The discoveries and generalizations of modern science...more sublime than has ever yet been addressed to the imagination. The natural philosopher of to-day may dwell amid conceptions which beggar those of Milton.... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Davis - 1867 - 220 páginas
...through its forces." In his very scholarly work on Heat, he grandly put the whole question thus:— " The discoveries and generalizations of modern science...more sublime than has ever yet been addressed to the imagination. The natural philosopher of to-day may dwell amid conceptions which beggar those of Milton.... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1863 - 550 páginas
...it we must reproduce if only to escape our own and our readers' reproaches for doing an injustice. 'Presented rightly to the mind, the ' discoveries...more sublime than has ever yet been addressed to the in' tellect and imagination of man. The natural philosopher of to' day may dwell anu'd conceptions... | |
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Presented rightly to the mind, the discoveries and generalizations of modern science constitute a poem more sublime than has ever yet been addressed to the intellect and imagination of man. The natural philosopher of to-day may dwell amid conceptions,... 
