 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1835 - 472 pages
...be removed. On the contrary, they might, perhaps, go on augmenting in number, for it has been justly said, that the greater the circle of light, the greater...the boundary of darkness by which it is surrounded. * * Sir H. Dayy, Consolations in Travel, p. 246. 235 CHAPTER VIII. EARTHQUAKES OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1835 - 598 pages
...be removed. On the contrary, they might, perhaps, go on augmenting in number, for it has been justly said, that the greater the circle of light, the greater...the boundary of darkness by which it is surrounded.' — vol. ii., pp. 233, 234. We must not indulge ourselves in following Mr. Lyell through the part of... | |
 | John Timbs - 1840 - 430 pages
...concern. — H^Hberfarce. Every discovery opens a new field for the investigation of facts, and shews us the imperfection of our theories. It has justly...boundary of darkness by which it is surrounded.— Sir H. Davy. Those who attempt to reason us out of our follies, begin at the wrong end, since the attempt... | |
 | John Topham - 1843 - 96 pages
...field for investigation of facts, — shews us the imperfection of our theories. It has been justly said, that, the greater the circle of light, the greater...human intellect ; which, by its increasing efforts to a higher kind of wisdom, and a state, in which truth is fully and brightly revealed, seems as it were,... | |
 | Willian Blaackwood aand Sons. Edinburgh - 1843 - 712 pages
...new field for investigation of facts, shews us the imperfection of our theories. It has been justly said that the greater the circle of light, the greater...it is surrounded. This strictly applies to chemical enquiries, and hence they arc wonderfully suited to the progressive nature of the human intellect,... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...things, they have for their ultimate end the great and magnificent objects of nature. They regard thi formation of a crystal, the structure of a pebble,...were, to demonstrate its birthright to immortality. 82.— OF GREAT PLACE. BACON,' MEN in great place are thrice servants : servants of the sovereign or... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 650 pages
...to attend to facts, they likewise extend its analogies, and, though conversant with tho minute forms of things, they have for their ultimate end the great...are wonderfully suited to the progressive nature of tho human intellect, which by its increasing efforts to acquire a higher kind of wisdom, and a state... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 358 pages
...keep alive that inextinguishable thirst after knowledge, which is one of the greatest characteristies of our nature ; for every discovery opens a new field...were, to demonstrate its birthright to immortality. 126.— CONVERSION OF KING ETHELBERT. [BEDE or Beda, distinguished by the name of the Venerable, was... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1868 - 796 pages
...of nature should increase at the same time ; for it has been justly said " (by Sir Humphry Davy) " that the greater the circle of light, the greater...the boundary of darkness by which it is surrounded." $e Jfcre's ACCORDING to the high authority of Charles Lamb, it has sometimes happened " that from no... | |
 | Anthropology - 1870 - 350 pages
...other, and to ourselves, denies the power of conceiving a totality even of such relative knowledge. " The greater the circle of light, the greater the boundary of darkness," said Sir Humphrey Davy ; and this profound remark, when translated into psychological language, means... | |
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They keep alive that inextinguishable thirst after knowledge, which is one of the greatest characteristics of our nature ; for every discovery opens a new field for investigation of facts, shows us the imperfection of our theories. It has justly been... 
