The Life of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart., LL.D.: Late President of the Royal Society, Foreign Associate of the Royal Institute of France, &c. ...H. Colburn an R. Bentley, 1831 - 547 pages |
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Page vii
... present we can form no idea ; but it is obvious that , in the page of history , his name will gather fame in proportion as such discoveries unfold themselves . It must be admitted , that such considerations may furnish an argument ...
... present we can form no idea ; but it is obvious that , in the page of history , his name will gather fame in proportion as such discoveries unfold themselves . It must be admitted , that such considerations may furnish an argument ...
Page xiv
... present Bishop of Bristol , addresses a letter to Sir H. Davy , and invites his attention to the subject . - Sir H. Davy's reply . - Farther Correspondence upon the possibility of devising means of security . - Sir H. Davy proposes four ...
... present Bishop of Bristol , addresses a letter to Sir H. Davy , and invites his attention to the subject . - Sir H. Davy's reply . - Farther Correspondence upon the possibility of devising means of security . - Sir H. Davy proposes four ...
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... present the property and residence of Thomas Daniel , Esq . His son , the parent of the illustrious subject of our history , was sent to London , and apprenticed to a carver in wood , but , on the death of his father , who , although ...
... present the property and residence of Thomas Daniel , Esq . His son , the parent of the illustrious subject of our history , was sent to London , and apprenticed to a carver in wood , but , on the death of his father , who , although ...
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... present from the surgeon , a case of instruments which had been saved from the ship . The contents were eagerly turned out and examined by the young chemist , not , however , with any professional view as to their utility , but in order ...
... present from the surgeon , a case of instruments which had been saved from the ship . The contents were eagerly turned out and examined by the young chemist , not , however , with any professional view as to their utility , but in order ...
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... present themselves , who are capable of devising any thing so ingenious . Dr. Henry , in a paper published in the " Memoirs of the Manchester Society , " on entering into a review of this and similar experiments , very truly states ...
... present themselves , who are capable of devising any thing so ingenious . Dr. Henry , in a paper published in the " Memoirs of the Manchester Society , " on entering into a review of this and similar experiments , very truly states ...
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Page 456 - ... power, wit, or fancy ; but if I could choose what would be most delightful, and I believe most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing ; for it makes life a discipline of goodness; creates new hopes when all earthly hopes vanish ; and throws over the decay, the destruction of existence^ the most gorgeous of all lights ; awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity...
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Page 464 - A day with not too bright a beam, A warm, but not a scorching sun, A southern gale to curl the stream, And, master, half our work is done.
Page 487 - Cannon and fortifications now form an impregnable barrier against the Tartar horse; and Europe is secure from any future irruption of barbarians, since, before they can conquer, they must cease to be barbarous.
Page 342 - I have enough for all my views and purposes ; more wealth might be troublesome, and distract my attention from those pursuits in which I delight; — more wealth,' he added, ' could not increase either my fame or my happiness. It might, undoubtedly, enable me to put four horses to my carriage ; but what would it avail me to have it said that Sir Humphry drives his carriage and four?
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Page 113 - Christabel unfinished, and as I had before heard it. What talent does he not waste in forming visions, sublime, but unconnected with the real world ! I have looked to his efforts, as to the efforts of a creating being ; but as yet, he has not even laid the foundation for the new world of intellectual forms.
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Page 205 - The Bakerian Lecture, on some of the Combinations of Oxymuriatic Gas and Oxygen, and on the Chemical Relations of these Principles to inflammable Bodies.
Page 4 - Cloyne, and the celebrated Dr. Parr, were his principal associates. They divided the fields in the neighbourhood of Harrow, according to a map of Greece, into states and kingdoms: each fixed upon one as his dominion, and assumed an ancient name. Some of their school-fellows consented to be styled barbarians, who were to invade their territories and attack their hillocks, which were denominated fortresses. The chiefs vigorously defended their respective domains against the incursions of the enemy;...