The natural philosopher of to-day may dwell amid conceptions which beggar those of Milton. So great and grand are they, that in the contemplation of them a certain force of character is requisite to preserve us from bewilderment. The Edinburgh Review - Página 251864Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 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
...from its source through infinitude. Presented rightly to the mind, the discoveries and generalizations of modern science constitute a poem more sublime than...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 - 1863 - 538 páginas
...from its source through infinitude. Presented rightly to the mind, the discoveries and generalizations of modern science constitute a poem more sublime than...dwell amid conceptions, which beggar those of Milton. So great and grand are they, that in the contemplation of them, a certain force of character is requisite... | |
| 1863 - 568 páginas
...reproaches for doing an injustice. " Presented rightly to the mind, the discoveries and generalizations of modern science constitute a poem more sublime than...dwell amid conceptions which beggar those of Milton. So great and grand are they, that in the contemplation of them a certain force of character is requisite... | |
| John Tyndall - 1866 - 492 páginas
...from its source through infinitude. Presented rightly to the mind, the discoveries and generalizations of modern science constitute a poem more sublime than...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
...Tyndall says in the eloquent peroration to his work on Heat: — -" The discoveries and generalizations of modern science 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.... | |
| Andrew Jackson Davis - 1867 - 220 páginas
...scholarly work on Heat, he grandly put the whole question thus:— " The discoveries and generalizations of modern science 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 - 1868 - 560 páginas
...that We arc such stuff As dreams are made of. and our little life Is rounded by a sleep. (724) Still, presented rightly to the mind, the discoveries and...science constitute a poem more sublime than has ever yet addressed the human imagination. The natural philosopher of to-day may dwell amid conceptions which... | |
| Bernard Cracroft - 1868 - 348 páginas
...sleep," — he proceeds, " Still, 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 imagination. The natural philosopher of to-day may dwell amid conceptions which beggar those of Milton.... | |
| Henry Allon - 1863 - 550 páginas
...reproaches for doing an injustice. '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 in' tellect and imagination of man. The natural philosopher of to' day may dwell anu'd conceptions... | |
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