 | 1862 - 518 sivua
...admire, but cannot attempt to imitate. " Had this extraordinary man," Swainson* well observes, loft us no other memorial of his talents than his researches...almost equally great in moral as in physical science, we might almost be tempted to thiuk that the powers of the human mind had retrograded, and that originality... | |
 | 1862 - 628 sivua
...than his researches in Zoo' logy, he would still be looked upon as one of the greatest philoso1 phers of ancient Greece, even in its highest and brightest...almost equally great ' in moral as in physical science, we might almost be tempted to ' think that the powers of the human mind had retrograded, and that '... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1864 - 438 sivua
...HOUOHTON), says," Had this extraordinary man left ns no other memorial of his talents than his researehes in Zoology, he would still be looked upon as one of...greatest philosophers of ancient Greece, even in its brightest and highest age." This may be accepted; but MACOILLIVRAY passes from Greece to modern times... | |
 | New York Academy of Sciences - 1886 - 362 sivua
...language, those more prominent and comprehensive groups of the animal kingdom, which, being founded in Nature, are exempt from the influence of time and...ancient Greece, even in its highest and brightest age. His eloquence and depth of thought are well known, as manifest in voluminous writings. The death of... | |
 | New York Academy of Sciences - 1886 - 378 sivua
...language, those more prominent and comprehensive groups of the animal kingdom, which, being founded in Nature, are exempt from the influence of time and...ancient Greece, even in its highest and brightest age. His eloquence and depth of thought are well known, as manifest in voluminous writings. The death of... | |
 | New York Academy of Sciences - 1886 - 346 sivua
...language, those more prominent and comprehensive groups of the animal kingdom, which, being founded in Nature, are exempt from the influence of time and...ancient Greece, even in its highest and brightest age. His eloquence and depth of thought are well known, as manifest in voluminous writings. The death of... | |
 | 1839 - 868 sivua
...xxxvi, No. 2.— April-July, 1839. 28 nature, are exempt from the influence of time and the immutability of learning. Had this extraordinary man left us no...ancient Greece, even in its highest and brightest age. " With peculiar tact he brought the rules of philosophic reasoning to bear upon a subject to that time... | |
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History," in which he first sought to define, by the precision of language, those more prominent and comprehensive groups of the animal kingdom, which, being founded in Nature, are exempt from the influence of time and the mutability of learning. Had... 