| 1816 - 828 pages
...in some parts of Europe, are not without their use to the historian of the Huma:i Wind. Immoveably moored to the same station by the 'strength of their cables and the weight of their anchors, they enable him to measure the" rapidity of the current by which the rest Of the world are borne along.... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1816 - 802 pages
...in Homo parts of Exirope, are not without their use to the historian of the Human Alind. Immovcably moored to the same station by the strength of their cables and the weight of their anchors, they enable him to measure the rapidity of the current by which the rest of the world aie borne along. "... | |
| English literature - 1817 - 592 pages
...seats of learning ; ' immoveably moored to the same station,' to use his own ingenious illustration, * by the strength of their cables and the weight of their anchors,' he seems to think them of no other use than to enable ' the historian of the human mind to measure... | |
| English literature - 1817 - 610 pages
...seats of learning ; ' immoveably moored to the same station,' to use his own ingenious illustration, ' by the strength of their cables and the weight of their anchors,' he seems to think them of no other use than to enable ' the historian of the human mind to measure... | |
| Jared Sparks, Francis William Pitt Greenwood - Unitarianism - 1822 - 366 pages
...progressive. In this respect, the religious and academical establishments in some parts of Europe, are not without their use to the historian of the human...their cables, and the weight of their anchors, they enable him to measure the rapidity of the current by which the rest of the world are borne along.'... | |
| Charles Jared Ingersoll - United States - 1823 - 88 pages
...rhetoric, logic, and scholastic ethics. Oxford and Cambridge, in the fine metaphor of Dugald Stewart, are immovably moored to the same station by the strength of their cables, thereby enabling the historian of the human mind to measure the rapidity of the current by which the... | |
| 1824 - 762 pages
...establishments in some parts of Europe, are not without their use to the historian of the human mind. Immoveably moored to the same station by the strength of their cables and the weight of their anchors, they enable him to measure the rapidity of the current by which the rest of the world is borne along." From... | |
| Agriculture - 1869 - 604 pages
...distributes prizes for new introductions while the other rivets the long exploded customs. Immoveahly moored to the same station by the strength of their cables and the weight of their anchors, these persons form useful marks to enable the historian of the human mind to measure the rapidity of... | |
| Jean Baptiste Say - Economics - 1827 - 522 pages
...establishments in some parts of Europe are not without their use to the historian of the human mind. Immoveably moored to the same station by the strength of their cables, and the weight of their anchors, they enable him to measure the rapidity of the current by which the rest of the world are borne along."... | |
| 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 - 1827 - 634 pages
...pleased to say, were ' not without their use to the historian of the human mind, since, invariably moored to the same station by the strength of their cables and the weight of their anchors, they enable him to measure the rapidity of the current by which the rest of the world are borne along.'... | |
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