Biography of self-taught men [by B. B. Edwards and S. G. Bagley].T. Nelson and Sons, 1869 - 288 страници |
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... miles dis- tant from each other . How imperfectly have the coasts of even the old civilized nations been mapped out , until comparatively modern times ! Countries which contained all the science of the world could not 44 James Cook .
... miles dis- tant from each other . How imperfectly have the coasts of even the old civilized nations been mapped out , until comparatively modern times ! Countries which contained all the science of the world could not 44 James Cook .
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... miles from Whitby . Here he manifested good judgment and considerable skill in accounts , but his inclinations began to lead him very strongly to the sea . His master , willing to in- dulge him , gave up his indentures , and he soon en ...
... miles from Whitby . Here he manifested good judgment and considerable skill in accounts , but his inclinations began to lead him very strongly to the sea . His master , willing to in- dulge him , gave up his indentures , and he soon en ...
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... miles distant , so as to give as much security as possible . The day came , and the sun rose without a cloud . The observations at all the posts were most satisfactory , and contributed essentially to solve the great problem which ...
... miles distant , so as to give as much security as possible . The day came , and the sun rose without a cloud . The observations at all the posts were most satisfactory , and contributed essentially to solve the great problem which ...
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... miles nearly . " Although this method was sufficiently accu- rate for the moon , it was found not to answer for the sun , whose distance is so great that the slightest error in the observation would lead to a great error in the results ...
... miles nearly . " Although this method was sufficiently accu- rate for the moon , it was found not to answer for the sun , whose distance is so great that the slightest error in the observation would lead to a great error in the results ...
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... miles . Can it soon cease to be a matter of astonishment to the unlearned , that by merely knowing the fact that the passage of a little planet , in appearance simply a black speck , across the face of the sun , appeared to an observer ...
... miles . Can it soon cease to be a matter of astonishment to the unlearned , that by merely knowing the fact that the passage of a little planet , in appearance simply a black speck , across the face of the sun , appeared to an observer ...
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acquainted acquired afterwards ALEXANDER WILSON artist assistance astronomical became began Benjamin West brother Captain Cook character circumstances colours commenced copy cylinder Davy death determined discovered discovery distinguished early employed endeavoured engaged England English exhibited expedition father favour feelings friends gave genius Greek Greek language honour Hörberg hundred immediately instruction invention island JAMES COOK JAMES WATT John Hunter JOHN LEYDEN JOHN OPIE kind knowledge labours land language Latin learning Leyden literary lived London Lord Minto master ment miles mind native nature never Niebuhr object observations obtained Opie Ornithology painter painting parallax peasant picture poem poet pursuits racter received Royal Society sailed says Scotland self-taught sent shillings ship shore Society Islands soon steam talent taste thought tion took traveller vessel visited voyage Watt West whole young
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Страница 161 - Appeared the rough initials of my name, Cut forty years before ! The same old clock Struck the same bell, and gave my heart a shock I never can forget. A short breeze sprung, And while a sigh was trembling on my tongue, Caught the old dangling almanacs behind, And up they flew like banners in the wind ; Then gently, singly, down, down, down they went, And told of twenty years that I had spent Far from my native land. That instant came A robin on the threshold ; though so tame, At first he looked...
Страница 166 - Shipwreck. Pallas and Plato are forgotten, in the recollection of Falconer and Campbell : — " Here in the dead of night by Lonna's steep, The seaman's cry was heard along the deep.
Страница 231 - Two days afterwards, while the editor was sitting with some company after dinner, a sound was heard at a distance like that of the whistling of a tempest through the torn rigging of the vessel which scuds before it. The sounds increased as they approached more near; and Leyden (to the great astonishment of such of the guests as did not know him) burst into the room, chanting the desiderated ballad with the most enthusiastic...
Страница 127 - That he should have been minutely and extensively skilled in chemistry and the arts, and in most of the branches of physical science, might perhaps have been conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally known, that he was curiously learned in many branches of antiquity, metaphysics, medicine, and etymology, and perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law.
Страница 127 - It has increased indefinitely the mass of human comforts and enjoyments, and rendered cheap and accessible, all over the world, the materials of wealth and prosperity. It has armed the feeble hand of man, in short, with a power to which no limits can be assigned; completed the dominion of mind over the most refractory qualities of matter; and laid a sure foundation for all those future miracles of mechanic power which are to aid and reward the labours of after generations.
Страница 127 - Independently of his great attainments in mechanics, Mr. Watt was an extraordinary, and in many respects a wonderful man. Perhaps no individual in his age possessed so much and such varied and exact information, had read so much, or remembered what he had read so accurately and so well. He had infinite quickness of apprehension, a prodigious memory, and a certain rectifying and methodising power of understanding, which extracted something precious out of all that was presented to it.
Страница 170 - The vessel, while the dread event draws nigh, Seems more impatient o'er the waves to fly : Fate spurs her on : — thus issuing from afar, Advances to the sun some blazing star ; And, as it feels th' attraction's kindling force, Springs onward with accelerated course.
Страница 154 - Paradise Lost,' and some novels. These books he lent to Robert ; who spent all his leisure hours in reading the 'Seasons,' which he was now capable of reading. I never heard him give so much praise to any book as to that.
Страница 175 - Had he," proceeds his biographer, " in the commencement of his career been furnished with all those appliances which he enjoyed at a later period, it is more than probable that he might never have acquired that wonderful tact of manipulation, that ability of suggesting expedients, and of contriving apparatus so as to meet and surmount the difficulties which must constantly arise during the progress of the philosopher through the unbeaten tracks and unexplored regions of science. In this art Davy...
Страница 128 - He had a certain quiet and grave humour, which ran through most of his conversation, and a vein of temperate jocularity, which gave infinite zest and effect to the condensed and inexhaustible information which formed its main staple and characteristic. There was a little air of affected testiness, and a tone of pretended rebuke and contradiction, with which he used to...