Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Its Pleasures and Rewards : in Two Volumes, Том 2Harper & brothers, 1860 |
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... around his name , which is now sure to retain its distinction , so long as the sciences which he loved shall continue to be cultivated among men . CHAPTER II . Tycho Brahe - Boyle - The Airpump 18 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
... around his name , which is now sure to retain its distinction , so long as the sciences which he loved shall continue to be cultivated among men . CHAPTER II . Tycho Brahe - Boyle - The Airpump 18 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
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... cultivate his talent for that species of com- position , because , in his travels , having by discon- tinuance forgot much of the Latin tongue , he after- ward never could find time to redeem his losses by a serious study of the ancient ...
... cultivate his talent for that species of com- position , because , in his travels , having by discon- tinuance forgot much of the Latin tongue , he after- ward never could find time to redeem his losses by a serious study of the ancient ...
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... cultivated , prob- ably never even beheld his illustrious precursor ; but we cannot tell how much of Boyle's love of ex- perimental inquiry , and his ambition to distinguish himself in that field , may have been caught from this his ...
... cultivated , prob- ably never even beheld his illustrious precursor ; but we cannot tell how much of Boyle's love of ex- perimental inquiry , and his ambition to distinguish himself in that field , may have been caught from this his ...
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... cultivation , without heeding the worldly disadvantages against which he had to contend . HUMPHREY DAVY was born in 1778 , at Penzance , in Cornwall . His father followed the profession of a carver in wood in that town , where many DAVY ...
... cultivation , without heeding the worldly disadvantages against which he had to contend . HUMPHREY DAVY was born in 1778 , at Penzance , in Cornwall . His father followed the profession of a carver in wood in that town , where many DAVY ...
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... cultivation of his mind as he had done , it would to him have been no opportunity at all . The experiments conducted by Davy , and under his direction , at the Bristol Institution , were soon rewarded by important results ; and of these ...
... cultivation of his mind as he had done , it would to him have been no opportunity at all . The experiments conducted by Davy , and under his direction , at the Bristol Institution , were soon rewarded by important results ; and of these ...
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Страница 186 - It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal like wax before it, — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin, and forge anchors, — cut steel into ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves.
Страница 220 - ... hunger and nakedness to the utmost extremity of human suffering. I have known what it is to have food given me as charity to a madman ; and I have at times been obliged to shelter myself under the miseries of that character, to avoid a heavier calamity. My distresses have been greater than I have ever owned, or ever will own to any man. Such evils are terrible to bear ; but they never yet had power to turn me from my purpose. If I live, I will faithfully perform, in its utmost extent, my engagement...
Страница 219 - Before I had learnt from the note the name and business of my visitor, I was struck with the manliness of his person, the breadth of his chest, the openness of his countenance, and the inquietude of his eye.
Страница 121 - That exquisitely beautiful tale, accordingly appeared in 1766 ; and soon after, was published his ' History of England,' in a series of letters from a nobleman to his son, which immediately excited great attention and became extremely popular.
Страница 245 - Seathwaite and Ulpha, annexed together, would be apt to cause a general discontent among the inhabitants of both places ; by either thinking themselves slighted, being only served alternately, or neglected in the duty, or attributing it to covetousness in me ; all which occasions of murmuring I would willingly avoid.
Страница 107 - Soon after he married, Robert told me, in a letter, that he had sold his fiddle, and got a wife.' Like most poor men, he got a wife first, and had to get household stuff afterward. It took him some time to get out of readyfurnished lodgings.
Страница 232 - April, 1785. This being done, I then condescended to see how other people wove ; and you will guess my astonishment when I compared their easy modes of operation with mine. Availing myself, however, of what I then saw, I made a loom in its general principles nearly as they are now made. But it was not till the year 1787 that I completed my invention, when I took out my last weaving patent, August the 1st of that year.
Страница 107 - 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 187 - 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 188 - That he should have been minutely and extensively skilled in chymistry 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.