 How would it enlarge their minds, if they could acquire a sufficient knowledge of mathematics and astronomy to give them an idea of the beauty and wonders of the creation ! I am persuaded that the generality of people, and particularly fine ladies, only...  Travels in Russia: &c, &c - Pagina 235de William Rae Wilson - 1828Vizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 626 pagini
...idea of the beauty and wonders of the creation ! I am persuaded that the generality of people, and particularly fine ladies, only adore God because they...go to church ; but I would have my girls gain such knowledge of the works of the creation, that they may have a fixed idea of the nature of that Being... | |
 | 1828 - 438 pagini
...idea of the beauty and wonders of the creation ! I am persuaded that the generality of people, and particularly fine ladies, only adore God because they...go to church ; but I would have my girls gain such knowledge of the works of the creation, that they may have a fixed idea of the nature of that Being... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 pagini
...idea of the beauty and wonders of the creation ! I am persuaded that the generality of people, and particularly fine ladies, only adore God because they...go to church ; but I would have my girls gain such knowledge of the works of the creation, that they may have a fixed idea of the nature of that Being... | |
 | 1828 - 598 pagini
...idea of the beauty and wonders of the creation ! I am persuaded that the generality of people, and particularly fine ladies, only adore God because they...go to church ; but I would have my girls gain such knowledge of the works of the creation, that they may have a fixed idea of the nature of that Being... | |
 | 1828 - 448 pagini
...idea of the beauty and wonders of the creation ! I am persuaded that the generality of people, and particularly fine ladies, only adore God because they...is proper and the fashion to go to church ; but I " Tell me how do the trees which I planted thrive ? Is there shade under the three oaks for a comfortable... | |
 | Selected letters - 1842 - 318 pagini
...an idea of the beauty and wonders of the creation II am persuaded that the generality of people, and particularly fine ladies, only adore God because they...go to church ; but' I would have my girls gain such knowledge of the works of the creation, that they may have a fixed idea of the nature of that Being... | |
 | Thomas Fisher - 1854 - 156 pagini
...them an idea of the beauty and wonders of creation ! I am persuaded that the generality of people, and particularly fine ladies, only adore God because they...go to church ; but I would have my girls gain such knowledge of the works of the Creation, that they may have a fixed idea of the nature of that Being... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1854 - 652 pagini
...that the generality of people, and particularly fine ladies, only adore God because they are told that it is proper, and the fashion to go to church ; but...have my girls gain such a knowledge of the works of the creation, that they may have a fixed idea of the nature of that Being who could be the author of... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1868 - 506 pagini
...idea of the beauty and wonders of the creation ! I am persuaded that the generality of people, and particularly fine ladies, only adore God because they...go to church ; but I would have my girls gain such knowledge of the works of the creation, that they may have a fixed idea of the nature of that Being... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1872 - 988 pagini
...and wonders of the creation ! I am persuaded that the generality of people, and, particularly, line ladies, only adore God because they are told it is...go to church ; but I would have my girls gain such knowledge of the works of the creation, that they may have a llxed idea of the nature of that Being... | |
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