Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural TheologyWhewell, William
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Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural Theology
Whewell, William
Astronomy; Cosmic physics; Natural theology
We are surprised in meeting with an American reprint of this
delightful volume, that a work so universally popular has not
been before republished in this country.--_N. Y. American._
One of the most delightful labours of leisure ever seen; not a
few of the most beautiful phenomena of nature are here lucidly
explained.--_Gent. Magazine._
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. By the late Rev. GILBERT WHITE,
A. M., Fellow of the Oriel College, Oxford; with additions by Sir
WILLIAM JARDINE, Bart. F. R. S., E. F. L. S., M. W. S., author of
“Illustrations of Ornithology.”
White’s History of Selborne, the most fascinating piece of rural
writing and sound English philosophy that has ever issued from
the press.--_Athenæum._
JOURNAL OF A NATURALIST. With Plates.
----Plants, trees, and stones we note;
Birds, insects, beasts and rural things.
We again most strongly recommend this little unpretending volume
to the attention of every lover of nature, and more particularly
of our country readers. It will induce them, we are sure, to
examine more closely than they have been accustomed to do, into
the objects of animated nature, and such examination will prove
one of the most innocent, and the most satisfactory sources of
gratification and amusement. It is a book that ought to find its
way into every rural drawing-room in the kingdom, and one that
may safely be placed in every lady’s boudoir, be her rank and
station in life what they may.--_Quart. Review_, No. LXXVIII.
This is a most delightful book on the most delightful of all
studies. We are acquainted with no previous work which bears
any resemblance to this, except “White’s History of Selborne,”
the most fascinating piece of rural writing and sound English
philosophy that ever issued from the press.--_Athenæum._
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Family Library, Cabinet Library, &c.
[This Atlas comprises, in a volume of the Family Library size,
nearly one hundred Maps and Tables, which present equal to _fifty
thousand names of places_; a body of information three times as
extensive as that supplied by the generality of _Quarto Atlases_.]
This beautiful and most useful little volume, says the Literary
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of geographical information. A more instructive little present,
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although this elegant publication contains one hundred beautiful
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its being procured by every parent and friend to youth.
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