... ridiculous world ours is as far as concerns the mind of man ! How full of inconsistencies, contradictions, and absurdities it is! I declare that, taking the average of many minds that have recently come before me (and apart from that spirit which... The Life and Letters of Faraday - Pàgina 308per Bence Jones - 1870Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1869 - 674 pàgines
...minds that have recently come heforo me (and apart from that spirit which God has placed in each), and accepting for a moment that average as a standard, I should far prefer the ohedience, affections, and instinct of a dog before it. Do not whisper this, however, to others. There... | |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1869 - 658 pàgines
...minds that have recently come before me (and apart from that spirit which God has placed in each), and accepting for a moment that average as a standard,...tendencies and powers of men are so easily perverted." After this year, as Director of the Laboratory and Superintendent of the House, he received £300 from... | |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1869 - 658 pàgines
...minds that have recently come before me (and apart from that spirit which God has placed in each), and accepting for a moment that average as a standard,...Do not whisper this, however, to others. There is Oue above who worketh in all things, and who governs even in the midst of that misrule to which the... | |
| 1870 - 754 pàgines
...minds that have recently come before me (and apart from that spirit which God has placed in each), and accepting for a moment that average as a standard,...Do not whisper this, however, to others. There is Oiie above who worketh in all things, and who governs even in the midst of that misrule to which the... | |
| 1870 - 586 pàgines
...minds that have recently come before me (and apart from that spirit which God has placed in each), and accepting for a moment that average as a standard, I should far prefer the obedience, affection, and instinct of a do£ before it. ... I think the system of education that would leave the... | |
| 1870 - 588 pàgines
...minds that have recently come before me (and apart trom that spirit which God has placed in each ), and accepting for a moment that average as a standard, I should far prefer the obediencc, affection, and instinct of a dog before it. Do not whisper this, however, to others. There... | |
| 1870 - 544 pàgines
...each), and accepting for a moment that average as a standard, I should prefer the obedience, affection, and instinct of a dog before it. Do not whisper this, however, to others." And yet, at this very period, owing to his peculiar determination not to mix philosophy with his religion,... | |
| Charles Bray - 1871 - 390 pàgines
...minds that have recently come before me (and apart from that spirit which God has placed in each), and accepting for a moment that average aS a standard, I should far prefer the obedience, affection, and instinct of a dog before it." And who does not recollect Byron's beautiful lines : —... | |
| Charles Bray - 1871 - 398 pàgines
...minds that have recently come before me (and apart from that spirit which God has placed in each), and accepting for a moment that average as a standard, I should far prefer the obedience, affection, and instinct of a dog before it." And who does not recollect Byron's beautiful lines:—... | |
| John Hall Gladstone - 1872 - 244 pàgines
...gloomy views, and so did Faraday, notwithstanding his personal happiness, and his firm conviction that " there is One above who worketh in all things, and...tendencies and powers of men are so easily perverted." In writing to Professor Schonbein and a few other kindred spirits, he would turn naturally enough from... | |
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