The Life of Sir Humphry Davy: Late President of the Royal Society Foreign Associate of the Royal Institute of FranceHenry Colburnan and Richard Bentley, 1831 - 547 pages |
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... feelings of surviving kindred and admiring friends shall be cold as the grave , from which remembrance vainly recalls his cherished form , invested with all the life and energy of recent existence . " Is it not possible that the errors ...
... feelings of surviving kindred and admiring friends shall be cold as the grave , from which remembrance vainly recalls his cherished form , invested with all the life and energy of recent existence . " Is it not possible that the errors ...
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... To these solicitations I returned a direct refusal : I even declined entering upon any conversation on the occasion ; feeling that the wishes of Lady Davy , at that time on the Continent , ought in the very viii PREFACE .
... To these solicitations I returned a direct refusal : I even declined entering upon any conversation on the occasion ; feeling that the wishes of Lady Davy , at that time on the Continent , ought in the very viii PREFACE .
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... feelings of the most lively delight . Shortly afterwards , he commenced reading history , particularly that of England ; and at the age of eight years he would , as if impressed with the powers of oratory , collect together a number of ...
... feelings of the most lively delight . Shortly afterwards , he commenced reading history , particularly that of England ; and at the age of eight years he would , as if impressed with the powers of oratory , collect together a number of ...
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... feelings , but every action was marked by ingenuous- ness and candour , qualities which endeared him to his youthful associates , and gained him the love of all who knew him . " Nor can I find , " says his sister , " beloved as he must ...
... feelings , but every action was marked by ingenuous- ness and candour , qualities which endeared him to his youthful associates , and gained him the love of all who knew him . " Nor can I find , " says his sister , " beloved as he must ...
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... feels — When Nature smiles in beauty , or sublime Rises in majesty , he who can stand Unawed upon thy summit , clad in tempests , And view with raptured mind the roaring deep Rise o'er thy foam - clad base , while the black cloud Bursts ...
... feels — When Nature smiles in beauty , or sublime Rises in majesty , he who can stand Unawed upon thy summit , clad in tempests , And view with raptured mind the roaring deep Rise o'er thy foam - clad base , while the black cloud Bursts ...
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