 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1826 - 596 pages
...reflect on them, fills the mind, and produces certain as well as pure gratification. Hut if the knowlege of the doctrines unfolded by science is pleasing,...see distinctly those grounds, so as to be satisfied tbat a belief in the doctrines is well founded. Hence to follow a demonstration of a grand mathematical... | |
 | Science - 1831 - 336 pages
...same power which makes a stone fall to the ground ? To learn these things, and to reflect upon them, fills the mind, and produces certain as well as pure...to follow a demonstration of a grand mathematical truth—to perceive how clearly and how inevitably one step succeeds another, and how the whole steps... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1832 - 284 pages
...the very instrument and the process by which Nature works ? Then we raise our views to the structures of the heavens; and are again gratified with tracing...to follow a demonstration of a grand mathematical truth—to perceive how clearly and how inevitably one step succeeds another, and how the whole steps... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1833 - 426 pages
...the globe itself; and that, after all, it is the same power which makes a stone fall to the ground 7 To learn these things, and to reflect upon them, occupies...the highest gratification of all, in being able to sec distinctly those grounds, so as to be satisfied that a belief in the doctrines is well founded.... | |
 | Railroad engineering - 1833 - 436 pages
...perceive how they are proved. Without this you never can expect (o remember them long, or to un. derstand them accurately ; and that would of itself be reason...in the doctrines is well founded. Hence to follow к demonstration of a grand mathematical truth — to perceive how clearly and how inevitably one step... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Education, Higher - 1843 - 342 pages
...them or to know them, if you have not so studied them as to perceive how they are proved. Witho»* L2 this you never can expect to remember them long or...accurately ; and that would, of itself, be reason enough forfexamining closely the grounds they rest on. But there is the highest gratification of all, in being... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - English literature - 1846 - 318 pages
...fairy-tales that ever were fancied any thing more calculated to arrest the attention, and to occupy and gratify the mind, than this most unexpected resemblance...to be satisfied that a belief in the doctrines is wefl founded. Hence to follow a demonstration of a grand mathematical truth — to perceive how clearly... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Mathematics - 1860 - 342 pages
...sense of the word, to have learnt them, or to know them, if you have not so studied them as to percoive how they are proved. Without this you never can expect...well founded. Hence to follow a demonstration of a great mathematical truth — to perceive how clearly and how inevitably one step succeeds another,... | |
 | Edward Law Hussey - Quotations - 1873 - 172 pages
...them, if you have not so studied them as to perceive how they are proved. Without this you can never expect to remember them long, or to understand them...satisfied that a belief in the doctrines is well founded. — LORD BROUGHAM, A Discourse of the Objects, Advantages and Pleasures of Science, 1827. I believe... | |
 | Extracts - Quotations, English - 1883 - 246 pages
...steps by which those doctrines are investigated, and their truth demonstrated : indeed you can not be said, in any sense of the word, to have learnt...satisfied that a belief in the doctrines is well founded. — LORD BROUGHAM, Discourse of the Objects, Advantages and Pleasures of Science, 1827. All knowlege... | |
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To learn these things, and to reflect upon them, occupies the faculties, fills the mind, and produces certain as well as pure gratification. But if the knowledge of the doctrines unfolded by science is pleasing, so is the being able to trace the steps... 
