 | John Pye Smith - Bible and geology - 1839 - 464 pages
...DISSENTING COLLEGE AT HOMERTON. LONDON: JACKSON AND WALFORD, 18, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD. MDCCCXXXIX. GEoLoGY, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects...ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to Astronomy. SIR JOHM FW HEASCHEL. There is a knowledge which creates doubts that nothing but a larger knowledge... | |
 | Robert Armstrong - Steam-boilers - 1839 - 298 pages
...ditto. 250. GEOLOGICAL MAP OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN EUROPE. IT is observed by Sir John Herschel that ** Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects...ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to Astronomy ' like Astronomy, too, its progress depends on the continual accumulation of observations carried on... | |
 | Frederick John Francis - 1839 - 204 pages
...and study. Sir John Herschel observes, in his Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy, that " Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects...which it treats, undoubtedly ranks in the scale of sciences next to Astronomy." And when the scope, variety, and complication of the phenomena she presents... | |
 | Periodicals - 1840 - 272 pages
...instrumental in imparting to them their actual form, or present arrangement. Sir John Herschel tells us, that geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects...ranks in the scale of the sciences next to astronomy. To those who are in some measure acquainted with the immensity of the field into which astronomy guides... | |
 | Periodicals - 1840 - 274 pages
...instrumental in imparting to them their actual form, or present arrangement. Sir John Herschel tells1 us, that geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects...ranks in the scale of the sciences next to astronomy. To those who are in some measure acquainted with the immensity of the field into which astronomy guides... | |
 | John Pye Smith - Bible and geology - 1840 - 376 pages
...DIVINITY TUTOR IN THE PEOTEBTANT DISSENTING COLLEGE AT HOMEHTON. NEW-YORK: D. APPLETON & CO. 200 BROADWAY. GEOLOGY, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects...ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to Astronomy. Sm JOHN FW HBRSCHBL. There is a knowledge which creates doubts that nothing but a larger knowledge... | |
 | John Pye Smith - Bible and geology - 1840 - 566 pages
...WALFORD, 18, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD. MDCCCXL. GEOLOGY, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects which It treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to Astronomy. SIR JOHN FW HERSCHED. There is a knowledge which creates doubts, that nothing but a larger knowledge... | |
 | John Pye Smith - Bible and geology - 1840 - 376 pages
...PYE SMITH, DDFGS DIVINITY TUTOB IN THE PBOTESTANT DISSENTING COLLEGE AT HOMZBTOlf. NEW-YORK: 211289 GEOLOGY, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedty ranks, in the scate of the sciences, next to Astronomy. SIR JOHN FW HBRSCUEL. There is... | |
 | Theology - 1840 - 530 pages
...of Europe. The first of European philosophers have pronounced it to be second to Astronomy only, " in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats." It has lately attracted much attention among us. Full courses of lectures are given upon it in all... | |
 | Religion - 1840 - 1078 pages
...of Europe. The first of European philosophers have pronounced it to be second to Astronomy only, " in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats." It has lately attracted much attention among us. Full courses of lectures are given upon it in all... | |
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geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy... 
