 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 oldal
...purpose, who can suppose man to be the only object of his Creator's care, or who does not see in the vast and wonderful apparatus around us provision for other...may, perhaps, each in its sphere, be the presiding center round which other planets, or bodies of which we can form no conception from any analogy offered... | |
 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - 1833 - 444 oldal
...purpose, who can suppose man to be the only object of his Creator's care, or who does not see in the vast and wonderful apparatus around us provision for other...may, perhaps, each in its sphere, be the presiding center round which other planets, or bodies of which we can form no conception from any analogy offered... | |
 | John Farrar - 1834 - 504 oldal
...purpose, who can suppose man to be the only object of his Creator's care, or who does not see in the vast and wonderful apparatus around us provision for other...analogy offered by our own system, may be circulating. 560. Analogies, however, more than conjectural, are not wanting to indicate a correspondence between... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1835 - 414 oldal
...Creator's care, or who iloes not see in the vast and wonderful apparatus around us provision for oiher races of animated beings. The planets, as we have...analogy offered by our own system, may be circulating. (593.) Analogies, however, more than conjectural, are not wanting to indicate a correspondence between... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1836 - 430 oldal
...purpose, who can suppose man to be the only object of his Creator's care, or who does not see, in the vast and wonderful apparatus around us, provision for other...analogy offered by our own system, may be circulating."* FOURTH WEEK—WEDNESDAY. X. THE STARRY HEAVENS. IMMENSITY OF THE UNIVERSE. ON casting the eye across... | |
 | 1839 - 868 oldal
...pose, who imagines that man is the only object of his Creator's care, or who does not see in the vast and wonderful apparatus around us, provision for other races of animated beings." (Herschell.) Analogy leads us to conclude that these orbs are destined to supply light and heat to... | |
 | Henry Fitz - 1840 - 512 oldal
...purpose, who can suppose man to be the only object of the Creator's care, or who does not see in the vast and wonderful apparatus around us provision for other...analogy offered by our own System, may be circulating."* It is impossible to form correct, enlarged conceptions of the glory of the heavens, without the aid... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1843 - 604 oldal
...purpose, who can suppose man to be the only object of his Creator's care, or who does not see in the vast and wonderful apparatus around us, provision for other races of animated beings. The planets derive their light from the sun ; but that cannot "be the case with the stars. These doubtless, then,... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1843 - 290 oldal
...purpose, who can suppose man to be the only object of his Creator's care, or who does not see in the vast and wonderful apparatus around us, provision for other races of animated beings. The planets derive their light from the sun ; but that cannot be the case with the stars. These doubtless, then,... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1847 - 430 oldal
...purpose, who can suppose man to be the only object of his Creator's care, or who does not see, in the vast and wonderful apparatus around us, provision for other...analogy offered by our own system, may be circulating."* FIFTH WEEK— THURSDAY. X. THE STARRY HEAVENS. IMMENSITY OF THE UNIVERSE. ON casting the eye across... | |
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... void of meaning and reality, and bewilder us among vain conjectures. Useful, it is true, they are to man as points of exact and permanent reference ; but he must have studied astronomy to little purpose, who can suppose man to be the only object of... 
