 | Robert Bakewell - Geology - 1829 - 602 pages
...them ; and will remain unimpaired in value, when some of those speculations have passed into oblivion. The editor, believes that he is performing a service...philosophical and just, and some of them are peculiarly happy. We know not of any work on geology, which, as an introduction, can be perused with more advantage than... | |
 | Robert Bakewell - Geology - 1829 - 726 pages
...conspicuous for attractiveness—for perspicuity—for a style generally vigorous and correct—often eloquent and beautiful; and for an independence of...philosophical and just, and some of them are peculiarly happy. We know not of any work on geology, which, as an introduction, can be perused with more advantage than... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1838 - 520 pages
...conspicuous for attractiveness, for perspicuity, for a style generally vigorous and correct — often elegant and beautiful, and for an independence of spirit which...carries the author straight forward to his object without any servile regards to previous systems. Mr. Bakewell's work has long been our favourite elementary... | |
 | Clement Hoare - Climbing plants - 1837 - 252 pages
...conspicuous for attractiveness, for perspicuity, for a style generally vigorous and correct — often elegant and beautiful — and for an independence of spirit...carries the author straight forward to his object without any servile regards to previous systems. Mr. Hakewell's work has long been our favourite elementary... | |
 | Samuel Laing - Norway - 1837 - 524 pages
...conspicuous for attractiveness, for perspicuity, for a style generally vigprous and correct — often elegant and beautiful, and for an independence of spirit which...carries the author straight forward to his object without any servile regards to previous systems. Mr. Bakewell's work has long been our favourite elementary... | |
 | Thomas Henry Lister - 1838 - 578 pages
...conspicuous for attractiveness, for perspicuity, for a style generally vigorous and correct — often elegant and beautiful, and for an independence of spirit which...carries the author straight forward to his object without any servile regards to previous systems. Mr. Bakewell's work lias long been our favourite elementary... | |
 | Leveson Venables Vernon-Harcourt - Bible - 1838 - 556 pages
...conspicuous for attractiveness, for perspicuity, for a style generally vigorous and correct — often elegant and beautiful, and for an independence of spirit which...carries the author straight forward to his object without any servile regards to previous systems. Mr. Bakewell's work has long teen our favourite elementary... | |
 | Sir Henry Parnell - 1838 - 512 pages
...conspicuous for attractiveness, for perspicuity, for a style generally vigorous and correct— often elegant and beautiful, and for an independence of spirit which...carries the author straight forward to his object without any servile regards to previous systems. Mr. Bakewell's work has long been our favourite elementary... | |
 | Samuel Laing - Sweden - 1839 - 472 pages
...conspicuous for attractiveness, for perspicuity. for a style generally vigorous and correct — often elegant and beautiful, and for an independence of spirit which...carries the author straight forward to his object without any servile regards to previous systems. Mr. Bakewell's work lias long been our favourite elementary... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1839 - 464 pages
...conspicuous for attractiveness, for perspicuity, for a style generally vigorous and correct — often elegant and beautiful — and for an independence of spirit...carries the author straight forward to his object without any servile regards to previous systems. Mr. Bakewell's work has Ion; been our favourite elementary... | |
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A work conspicuous for attractiveness, for perspicuity, for a style generally vigorous and correct— often elegant and beautiful, and for an independence of spirit which carries the author straight forward to his object without any servile regards to... 
