 | 1854 - 758 pagina’s
...than our own, ore not dead and barren; that they are, like ours, occupied with life, organisation, intelligence. To conjecture is all that we can do; yet even by the perception or such a possibility, our view of the domain of nature is enlarged and elevated." Speaking again of... | |
 | William Whewell - 1833 - 298 pagina’s
...judge, perfectly analogous in their nature : besides our moon and other bodies analogous to it. No one can resist the temptation to conjecture, that...of the kingdom of nature is enlarged and elevated. The outermost of the planetary globes of which we have spoken is so far from the sun, that the central... | |
 | William Whewell - 1833 - 416 pagina’s
...judge, perfectly analogous in their nature : besides our moon and other bodies analogous to it. No one can resist the temptation to conjecture, that...of the kingdom of nature is enlarged and elevated. The outermost of the planetary globes of which we have spoken is so far from the sun, that the central... | |
 | William Whewell - 1836 - 420 pagina’s
...judge, perfectly analogous in their nature : besides our moon and other bodies analogous to it. No one can resist the temptation to conjecture, that...perception of such a possibility, our view of the domain of nature is enlarged and elevated. The outermost of the planetary globes of which we have spoken... | |
 | 1836 - 378 pagina’s
...judge, perfectly analogous in their nature : besides our moon and other bodies analogous to it. No one can resist the temptation to conjecture, that...of them much larger than our own, are not dead and harren ; that they are, like ours, occupied with organization, life, intelligence. To coniecture is... | |
 | 1836 - 566 pagina’s
...judge, perfectly analogous in their nature : besides our moon and other bodies analogous to it. No one can resist the temptation to conjecture, that...globes, some of them much larger than our own, are Dot dead and barren ; — that they are, like ours, occupied with organization, life, intelligence.... | |
 | Henry Addington Simcoe - 1838 - 302 pagina’s
...luminary. Now, if we suppose, (and it is by no means an unreasonable supposition,) that these planets, some of them much larger than our own, are not dead and barren masses, but like ours peopled with life in the same almost infinite variety of organization, this thought... | |
 | 1840 - 504 pagina’s
...judge, perfectly analogous in their nature : besides our moon and other bodies analogous to it. No one can resist the temptation to conjecture, that...intelligence. To conjecture is all that we can do, • From " Whewell's Briilgewater TreatUe." yet even by the perception of euch a possibility, our view... | |
 | William Whewell - 1841 - 256 pagina’s
...besides our moon and other bodies analogous to it. No one can resist the temptation to conjecture, lhat these globes, some of them much larger than our own,...of the kingdom of nature is enlarged and elevated. The outermost of the planetary globes of which we have spoken is so far from the sun, that the central... | |
 | 1855 - 846 pagina’s
...can judge perfectly analogous in their nature, besides our moon, and other bodies analogous to it No one can resist the temptation to conjecture that these...and barren ; that they are, like ours, occupied with life, organization, intelligence. To cor.jecture is all that we can do ; yet even by the perception... | |
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The earth, the globular body thus covered with life, is not the only globe in the universe. There are, circling about our own sun, six others, so far as we can judge, perfectly analogous in their nature : besides our moon and other bodies analogous to... 
