| Frederic William Farrar - Classical education - 1867 - 404 pages
...Literature, if ever so philosophically 1 Cuvier, speaking of his own study, says : — " Every discussion which supposes a classification of facts, every research which requires a distribution of matters, is performed after the same manner ; and he who has cultivated this science merely for amusement,... | |
| Henry Barnard - Education - 1872 - 988 pages
...be applied with infinite advantage to studies the most foreign to natural history. Every discussion which supposes a classification of facts, every research which requires a distribution of matters, is performed after the same manner, and he who has cultivated this science merely for amusement... | |
| United States. Office of Education - Digital images - 1884 - 750 pages
...man, with all his pride, can have no control f With reference to the study of physical science Cuvier observes: Every transaction which supposes a classification...of matter, is performed after the same manner, and ho who has cultivated this science merely for amusement is surprised at the facilities it affords for... | |
| United States. Office of Education - Digital images - 1884 - 774 pages
...pride, can have no control I With reference to the study of physical science Cuvier observes: Kvery transaction which supposes a classification of facts,...of matter, is performed after the same manner, and ho who has cultivated this science merely for amusement is surprised at the facilities it affords for... | |
| Henry Sidgwick, Arthur Sidgwick - Culture - 1904 - 392 pages
...representative of the diversity of 1 Cuvier, speaking of his own study, says: — "Every discussion which supposes a classification of facts, every research which requires a distribution of matters, is performed after the same manner ; and he who has cultivated this science merely for amusement,... | |
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