 | John Playfair - Science - 1822 - 458 pages
...splendid as they are, of which he was the undisputed author. It is by following his reasonings, and by pursuing the train of his thoughts in his own elegant,...another, and proving their extreme inconsistency. Of all the writers who have lived in an age, which was yet only emerging from ignorance and barbarism, Galileo... | |
 | English literature - 1822 - 696 pages
...splendid as they are, of which. he was the Undisputed author. It is by following his reasonings, and by pursuing the train of his thoughts in his own elegant...another, and proving their extreme inconsistency. Of all the writers who have lived in an age which was yet only emerging from ignorance and barbarism, Galileo... | |
 | John Playfair - Science - 1822 - 464 pages
...estimated not only from the truths which he discovered, but from the errors which he detected,—not merely from the sound principles which he established,...another, and proving their extreme inconsistency. Of all the writers who have lived in an age, which was yet only emerging from ignorance and barbarism, Galileo... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1824 - 1008 pages
...splendid as they are, of which he was the undisputed author. It is by following his reasonings, and by pursuing the train of his thoughts in his own elegant,...from the pernicious idols which he overthrew. His acutcness was strongly displayed in the address with which he exposed the errors of his adversaries,... | |
 | John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune - Astronomers - 1832 - 314 pages
...The service which he rendered to real knowledge is to be estimated, not only from the truths wliich he discovered, but from the errors which he detected...sound principles which he established, but from the pernicio\is idols which he overthrew. The Dialogues on the System are written with suc'n singular felicity,... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - Biography - 1833 - 584 pages
...splendid as they are, of which he was the undisputed author. It is by following his reasonings, and by pursuing the train of his thoughts, in his own elegant,...but from the pernicious idols which he overthrew. The dialogues on the system are written with such singular felicity, that one reads them at the present... | |
 | Lives - 1833 - 588 pages
...splendid as they are, of which he was the undisputed author. It is by following his reasonings, and by pursuing the train of his thoughts, in his own elegant,...but from the pernicious idols which he overthrew. The dialogues on the system are written with such singular felicity, that one reads them at tlie present... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - Biography - 1833 - 606 pages
...splendid as they are, of which he was the undisputed author. It is by following his reasonings, and by pursuing the train of his thoughts, in his own elegant,...but from the pernicious idols which he overthrew. The dialogues on the system are written with such singular felicity, that one reads them at the present... | |
 | B. Powell - 1834 - 420 pages
...— with the sagacity, penetration, and comprehensiveness of his mind. The service which he ren<lered to real knowledge is to be estimated, not only from...another, and proving their extreme inconsistency. Of all the writers who have lived in an age which was yet only emerging from ignorance and barbarism, Galileo... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Europe - 1839 - 424 pages
...splendid as they are, of which he was the undisputed author. It is by following his reasonings, and by pursuing the train of his thoughts, in his own elegant,...but from the pernicious idols which he overthrew. Of all the writers who have lived in an age which was yet only emerging from ignorance and barbarism,... | |
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... author. It is by following his reasonings, and by pursuing the train of his thoughts in his own elegant, though somewhat diffuse exposition of them, that we become acquainted with the fertility of his genius, with the sagacity, penetration, and comprehensiveness... 
