 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1833 - 210 pages
...right hand or to the left, and taught him to do homage to no authority before that of truth. Fixing his eye on the highest views of science, his experiments...science. While travelling among the highest mountains of Cumberland, and scarifying the face of nature with his hammer, he (.the President) had the happiness... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1834 - 562 pages
...happy prescience of the points to which the rays of scattered observations were converging, he has more than once seen light while to other eyes all was yet in darkness ; out of seeming confusion has elicited order ; and has thus reached the high distinction of being one of the greatest legislators... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1834 - 564 pages
...happy prescience of the points to which the rays of scattered observations were converging, he has more than once seen light while to other eyes all was yet in darkness; out of seeming confusion has elicited order; and has thus reached the high distinction of being one of the greatest legislators... | |
 | James Wheeler (of Prestwich.) - Manchester (England) - 1836 - 562 pages
...or to the left, and taught him to do homage to no authority before that of truth. Fixing his eye OB the highest views of science, his experiments had...once seen light while to other eyes all was yet in darkness—out of seeming confusion had elicited order—and had thus reached the high distinction... | |
 | William Charles Henry - Chemistry - 1854 - 302 pages
...right hand or to the left, and taught him to do homage to no authority before that of truth. Fixing his eye on the highest views of science, his experiments..." While travelling among the highest mountains of Cumberland, and scarifying the face of Nature with his hammer, he (the President) had first the happiness... | |
 | William Charles Henry - Chemists - 1854 - 308 pages
...never an insulated character, but were always made as contributions towards some important end,—were among the steps towards some lofty generalization....once seen light, while to other eyes all was yet in darkness;—out of seeming confusion had elicited order, and had thus reached the high distinction... | |
 | William Charles Henry - Chemists - 1854 - 346 pages
...were converging, he had more than once seen light, while to other eyes all was yet in darkness;—out of seeming confusion had elicited order, and had thus..." While travelling among the highest mountains of Cumberland, and scarifying the face of Nature with his hammer, he (the President) had first the happiness... | |
 | Henry Lonsdale - Cumberland (England) - 1867 - 336 pages
...contributions towards some important end — were among the steps towards some lofty generalisation. And with a most happy prescience of the points towards...science. While travelling among the highest mountains of Cumberland, and scarifying the face of Nature with his hammer, he (the President) had first the happiness... | |
 | Henry Lonsdale - 1874 - 352 pages
...contributions towards some important end — were among the steps towards some lofty generalisation. And with a most happy prescience of the points towards...science. While travelling among the highest mountains of Cumberland, and scarifying the face of Nature with his hammer, he (the President) had first the happiness... | |
 | John Willis Clark, Thomas McKenny Hughes - Geologists - 1890 - 618 pages
...happy prescience of the points to which the rays of scattered observations were converging, he has more than once seen light while to other eyes all was yet in darkness ; out of seeming confusion has elicited order ; and has thus reached the high distinction of being one of the greatest legislators... | |
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... the left, and taught him to do homage to no authority before that of truth. Fixing his eye on the highest views of science, his experiments had never an insulated character, but were always made as contributions towards some important end, — were... 
