... contributed towards the accomplishment of the ambitious projects of those philosophers, who from the arrangement of earths and minerals have been bold enough to form conjectures respecting the general laws which have governed the past revolutions... Transactions of the Literary Society of Bombay - Página xvide Literary Society of Bombay - 1819Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Sir James Mackintosh - 1848 - 630 páginas
...revolutions of our planet, and which preserve its parts in their present order. The Botany of India has bé^n less neglected, but it cannot be exhausted. The higher...unfortunately, the most dark and difficult, the philosophy of lii'e. — have in general been too much sacrificed to objects of value, indeed, but of a value far... | |
| Sir James Mackintosh, Robert James Mackintosh - 1854 - 598 páginas
...words, but not affecting a greater degree of exactness than is necessary for our immediate purpose. and no want of powerful and obvious motives to dispose...unfortunately, the most dark and difficult, the philosophy of life,—have in general been too much sacrificed to objects of value, indeed, but of a value far inferior:... | |
| Sir James Mackintosh - 1858 - 616 páginas
...which has been of late years cultivated with great activity in Europe, lias suoti a palpable connection With the useful arts of life, that it cannot be necessary...sacrificed to objects of value, indeed, but of a value far interior: and professed botanists have usually contented themselves with observing enoutrh of plants... | |
| Asiatic Society of Bombay - 1872 - 518 páginas
...parts in their present order. The Botany of India has been less neglected.but it cannot be exhansted. The higher parts of the science, — the structure,...physical sciences, though unfortunately the most dark ami difficult, the philosophy of life, — have in general been ton much sacrificed to objects of value... | |
| Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1899 - 562 páginas
...general laws which have governed the past revolutions of our planet, and which preserve its parts in the present order. The botany of India has been less neglected, but it cannot be exhausted. The higher parts of science, the structure, the functions, the habits of vegetables — all subjects intimately connected... | |
| 1900 - 558 páginas
...general laws which have governed the past revolutions of our planet, and which preserve its parts in the present order. The botany of India has been less neglected, but it cannot be exhausted. The higher parts of science, the structure, the functions, the habits of vegetables — all subjects intimately connected... | |
| Asiatic Society of Bombay - 1905 - 522 páginas
...Mackintosh already mentioned. In alluding to the state of Botanical study in his day, he says thus : "The higher parts of the Science, the structure, the...functions, the habits of vegetables — all subjects connected with the first of physical sciences, though unfortunately, the most dark and difficult, —... | |
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