 Moreover, it is quite true that the habit of dealing with facts, which is given by the study of nature, is, as the friends of physical science praise it for being, an excellent discipline. The appeal in the study of nature is constantly to observation...  Discourses in America - Page 109by Matthew Arnold - 1896 - 207 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1877 - 604 pages
...of things it would be if every scholar who had passed through the course of our primary schools knew that, when a taper burns, the wax is converted into carbonic acid and water, and thought, at the same time, that a good paraphrase for Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased?... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1882 - 920 pages
...its shell and begin the world. It is less interesting, perhaps, but still it is interesting, to know that when a taper burns, the wax is converted into carbonic acid and water. Moreover, it is quite true that the habit of dealing w1th facts which is given by the study of nature... | |
 | 1882 - 1050 pages
...it said that the thing is so, but we can be made to see that it is so. Not only does a man tell us that when a taper burns the wax is converted into carbonic acid and water, as a man may tell us, if he likes, that Charon is in his boat on the Styx, or that Victor Hugo is a... | |
 | 1882 - 884 pages
...its shell and begin the world. It is less interesting, perhaps, but still it is interesting, to know that when a taper burns, the wax is converted into carbonic acid and water. Moreover, it is quite true that the habit of dealing with facts which is given by the study of nature... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1889 - 332 pages
...of things it would be if every scholar who had passed through the course of our primary schools knew that, when a taper burns, the wax is converted into carbonic acid and water, and thought, at the same time, that a good paraphrase for Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1891 - 212 pages
..." The natural sciences do not, however, stand 0n the same footing with these instrument-knowledges. Experience shows us that the generality of men will...they find in learning that the genitive plural of pais and pas does not take the circumflex ou the termination. And one piece of natural knowledge is... | |
 | 1882 - 900 pages
...it said that the thing is so, but we can be made to see that it is so. Not only does a man tell us that, when a taper burns, the wax is converted into carbonic acid and water, as a man may tell us, if he likes, that Charon is in his boat on the Styx, or that Victor Hugo is a... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1897 - 456 pages
...the same footing with these instrument-knowledges. Experience shows us that the generality of 20 nun will find more interest in learning that, when a taper...circulation of the blood is carried on, than they find in 25 learning that the genitive plural of pats anA pas does not take the circumflex on the termination.... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1891 - 214 pages
..." The natural sciences do not, however, stand on the same footing with these instrument-knowledges. Experience shows us that the generality of men will...or in learning the explanation of the phenomenon of dow, or in learning how the circulation of the blood is carried on, than they find in learning that... | |
 | Sir Joshua Girling Fitch - 1897 - 304 pages
...of things it would be if every scholar who had passed through the course of our primary schools knew that when a taper burns, the wax is converted into carbonic acid and water, and thought, at the same time that a good paraphrase of Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased... | |
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