 | Thomas Reid - 1788 - 518 Seiten
...a child, who, by turning the handle of an organ, makes good mufic, without any knowledge of mufic. The art is not in the child, but in him who made the...the bee, and made all things in number, weight and meafure* To return to inftincts in man; thofe are moft remarkable which appear in infancy, when we... | |
 | James Anderson - 1793 - 390 Seiten
...a child, who, by turning the handle of an organ, makes good music, without any knowledge of music. The art is not in the child, but in him who made the organ. In like manner, when a bee makes his combs so geomatricallv, the geometry is not in the bee, but in that Great Geometrician, who made... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 450 Seiten
...like a child, who by turning the handle of an organ makes good mufic without any knowledge of mufic. The art is not in the child, but in him who made the...is not in the bee, but in that Great Geometrician wh» made the bee, and made all g things in number, weight, and meafure." Which can- We have given... | |
 | Ebenezer Sibly - 1802 - 420 Seiten
...like a child, who by turning the handle of an organ makes good mufic without any knowledge of mufic. The art is not in the child, but in him who made the organ. In like manner, when a bee makes its comb fo geometricallyr cally, the geometry is not in the bee, but in that great Geometrician 'who made... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1803 - 734 Seiten
...who, by turning the handle of an organ, • makes makes good mufic, without any knowledge of mufic. The art is not in the child, but in him who made the...the bee, and made all things in number, weight and meafure. To return to inftincts in man ; thofe are moft remarkable which appear in infancy j when we... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1815 - 474 Seiten
...handle of an organ, makes good musie, without any knowledge of musie. The art is not in the ehild, but in him who made the organ. In like manner, when a bee makes its eombs so geometrieally, the geometry is not in the bee, but in that great Geometrieian who made the... | |
 | 1816 - 764 Seiten
...like a child, who, by turning the handle of an organ, makes good mufic without any knowledge of mufic. The art is not in the child, but in him who made the...the bee, and made all things in number, weight, and meafure." On the whole, it is evident, tha: the ftrufture of a honey-comb is an effcft of inftinft... | |
 | Brian Hill - 1816 - 128 Seiten
...not in the child, but in him that made the • organ. In like manner, when u bee makes its combs so geometrically, the geometry is not in the bee, but...the bee, and made all things in number, weight, and measure," But, time severe, impatient of delay, Push'd hour on hour, bid day succeed to day, And chang'd... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1822 - 322 Seiten
...a child, who, by turning the handle of an organ, makes good music, without any knowledge of music. The art is not in the child, but in him who made the...organ. In like manner, when a bee makes its combs so geometrically, the geometry is not in the bee, but in that great Geometrician who made the bee,... | |
 | 1816 - 1004 Seiten
...tilings. They work most geometrically without any knowledge of geonjetry. When a bee makes its combs so geometrically, the geometry is not in the bee, but...Geometrician, who made the bee, and made all things in weight and measure. But while we maintain the perfection of those works, which, in animals, are effects... | |
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They work most geometrically, without any knowledge of geometry ; somewhat like a child, who, by turning the handle of an organ, makes good music without any knowledge of music. The art is not in the child, but in him who made the organ. In like manner,... 
