If it be a pleasure to gratify curiosity, to know what we were ignorant of, to have our feelings of wonder called forth, how pure a delight of this very kind does Natural Science hold out to its students ? Recollect some of the extraordinary discoveries... The London University Calendar - Page liiby London univ - 1852Full view - About this book
| 1827 - 698 pages
...unprofitable reading. If it be a pleasure to gratify curiosity, to know what we were ignorant of, to have our feelings of wonder called forth, how pure...extraordinary discoveries of Mechanical Philosophy. How wonderfid are the laws that regulate the motions of fluids ! Is there anything in all the idle... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1826 - 596 pages
...unprofitable reading. If it be a pleasure to gratify curiosity, to know what we were ignofant of, to have our feelings of wonder called forth, how pure...extraordinary discoveries of Mechanical Philosophy. How wonderful are the laws that regulate the motions of fluids ! Is there any thing in all the idle... | |
| Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1827 - 68 pages
...unprofitable reading. If it be a pleasure to gratify curiosity, to know what we were ignorant of, to have our feelings of wonder called forth, how pure...extraordinary discoveries of Mechanical Philosophy. How wonderful are the laws that regulate the motions of fluids ! Is there any thing in all the idle... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Mathematics - 1828 - 248 pages
...unprofitable reading. If it be a pleasure to gratify curiosity, to know what we were ignorant of, to have our feelings of wonder called forth, how pure...extraordinary discoveries of Mechanical Philosophy. How wonderful are the laws that regulate the motions of fluids ! Is there any thing in all the idle... | |
| Physics - 1829 - 522 pages
...unprofitable reading. If it be a pleasure to gratify curiosity, to know what we were ignorant of, to have our feelings of wonder called forth, how pure...extraordinary discoveries of Mechanical Philosophy. How wonderful are the laws that regulate the motions of fluids ! Is there any thing in all the idle... | |
| 1829 - 522 pages
...to gratify curiosity, to know what we were ignorant of, to have our feelings of wonder called *brlh, how pure a delight of this very kind does Natural...extraordinary discoveries of Mechanical Philosophy. How wonderful are the laws thut regulate the motions of fluids! Is there any thing in all the idle... | |
| William Russell - Education - 1828 - 910 pages
...unprofitable reading. If it be a pleasure to gratify curiosity, to know what we were ignorant of, to have our feelings of wonder called forth, how pure...extraordinary discoveries of Mechanical Philosophy. How wonderful are the laws that regulate the motions of fluids ! Is there any thing in all the idle... | |
| Science - 1831 - 336 pages
...unprofitable reading. If it be a pleasure to gratify curiosity, to know what we were ignorant of, to have our feelings of wonder called forth, how pure...extraordinary discoveries of Mechanical Philosophy. How wonderful are the laws that regulate the motions of fluids ! Is there any thing in all the idle... | |
| Science - 1831 - 336 pages
...unprofitable reading. If it be a pleasure to gratify curiosity, to know what we were ignorant of, to have our feelings of wonder called forth, •how pure...extraordinary discoveries of Mechanical Philosophy. How wonderful are the laws that regulate the motions of fluids! Is there any thing in all the idle... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1832 - 284 pages
...unprofitable reading. If it be a pleasure to gratify curiosity, to know what we were ignorant of, to have our feelings of wonder called forth, how pure...extraordinary discoveries of Mechanical Philosophy. How wonderful are the laws that regulate the motions of fluids! Is there any thing in all the idle... | |
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