 England, of whom it was observed, that, "if he had but known a little law, he would have known a little of everything." He uses the then all-powerful Edinburgh Review for his pulpit, and from it fulminates the condemnations of the church on the innovating...  The American Journal of Science - Seite 131889Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1889 - 550 Seiten
...physical science of this daj". I mean Henry Brougham, the universal critic, the future Lord-chancellor of England, of whom- it was observed, that, "if he...incomprehensible suppositions that we remember to have met with in the history of human hypotheses." There are whole pages of it, but this is enough ; and I cite this... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1889 - 542 Seiten
...condemnations of the church on the innovating memoir of the heretical Young. "This paper," he says,"contains nothing which deserves the name of experiment or discovery...incomprehensible suppositions that we remember to have met with in the history of human hypotheses." There are whole pages of it, but this ia enough ; and I cite this... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1875 - 256 Seiten
...following are choice specimens from Edinburgh Review articles in 1803 and 1804 :— "Another Bakerian lecture, containing more fancies, more blunders, more unfounded hypotheses, more gratuitous fictions, all upon the same field, and from the fertile yet fruitless brain of the same eternal Dr. Young. "... | |
 | 1878 - 818 Seiten
...Edinburgh Review came down upon him as follows : " The paper which stands first is another Bakerian lecture, containing more fancies, more blunders, more unfounded hypotheses, more gratuitous fictions, all upon the same field on which Newton trode, and all from the fertile yet fruitless brain of the... | |
 | Samuel Pierpont Langley, American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1888 - 34 Seiten
...physical science of this day. I mean Henry Brougham, the universal critic, the future Lord-chancellor of England, of whom it was observed, that, "if he...incomprehensible suppositions that we remember to have met with in the history of human hypotheses." There are whole pages of it, but this is enough ; and I cite this... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1888 - 352 Seiten
...or discovery ; and it is, in fact, destitute of every species of merit. . . . The paper which stands first is another lecture, containing more fancies,...incomprehensible suppositions that we remember to have met with in the history of human hypotheses." There are whole pages of it, but this is enough ; and I cite this... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1889 - 548 Seiten
...physical science of this day. I mean Henry Brougham, the universal critic, the future Lord-chancellor of England, of whom it was observed, that, "if he...incomprehensible suppositions that we remember to have met with in the history of human hypotheses." There are whole pages of it, but this is enough ; and I cite this... | |
 | 1889 - 902 Seiten
...or discovery ; and it is, in fact, destitute of every species of merit. . . . The paper which stands first is another lecture, containing more fancies,...incomprehensible suppositions that we remember to have met with in the history of human hypotheses." There are whole pages of it, but this is enough ; and I cite this... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1889 - 552 Seiten
...physical science of this day. I mean Henry Brougham, the universal critic, the future Lord-chancellor of England, of whom it was observed, that, "if he...incomprehensible suppositions that we remember to have met with in the history of human hypotheses." There are whole pages of it, but this is enough ; and I cite this... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1889 - 552 Seiten
...physical science of this day. I mean Henry Brougham, the universal critic, the future Lord-chancellor of England, of whom it was observed, that, "if he...incomprehensible suppositions that we remember to have met with in the history of human hypotheses." There are whole pages of it, but this is enough ; and I cite this... | |
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