| 1870 - 624 pagina’s
...four lectures.' ' My desire,' he wrote some years afterwards to Dr. Paris, ' was to escape from trade, which I thought vicious and selfish, ' and to enter...imagined ' made its pursuers amiable and liberal.' The answer (to Davy's honour) was immediate, kind, and favourable. ' At the same time that he gratified... | |
| John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 582 pagina’s
...notes, and afterwards wrote them out more fairly in a quarto volume. My desire to escape from trade, which I thought vicious and selfish, and to enter...the bold and simple step of writing to Sir H. Davy, expressing my wishes, and a hope that, if an opportunity came in his way, he would favour my views... | |
| John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 598 pagina’s
...notes, and afterwards wrote them out more fairly in a quarto volume. My desire to escape from trade, which I thought vicious and selfish, and to enter...the bold and simple step of writing to Sir H. Davy, expressing my wishes, and a hope that, if an opportunity came in his way, he would favour my views... | |
| Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1831 - 690 pagina’s
...notes, and afterwards wrote them out more fairly in a quarto volume. My desire to escape from trade, which I thought vicious and selfish, and to enter...the bold and simple step of writing to Sir H. Davy, expressing my wishes, and a hope that if an opportunity came in his way, he would favour my views ;... | |
| 1831 - 660 pagina’s
...notes, and afterwards wrote them out more fairly in a quarto volume. ' " My desire to escape from trade, which I thought vicious and selfish, and to enter into the service of science, which / imagined made its pursuers amiable and liberal, induced me at last to take the bold and simple step... | |
| William Jerdan - 1834 - 418 pagina’s
...notes, and afterwards wrote them out more fairly in a quarto volume. " My desire to escape from trade, which I thought vicious and selfish, and to enter...the bold and simple step of writing to Sir H. Davy, expressing my wishes, and a hope that, if an opportunity came in his way, he would favour my views... | |
| William Whewell - 1837 - 646 pagina’s
...career of discovery. In 1812, being then a bookseller's apprentice, he attended the lectures of Davy, which at that period excited the highest admiration...and simple step of writing to Sir H. Davy." He was favourably received, and, in the next year, became Davy's assistant at the Institution ; and afterwards... | |
| William Whewell - 1837 - 1046 pagina’s
...apprentice, he attended the lectures of Davy, which at that period excited the highest admiration8. " My desire to escape from trade," Mr. Faraday says,...and simple step of writing to Sir H. Davy." He was favourably received, and, in the next year, became Davy's assistant at the Institution ; and afterwards... | |
| 1872 - 858 pagina’s
...the writer. It shows that the most depressing day spoke of his desire to escape from traije, which he thought vicious and selfish, and to enter into the service of science, isfying — the truths. investigation of physical circumstances could not overcome his ] which he imagined... | |
| William Whewell - 1847 - 740 pagina’s
...desire to escape from trade," Mr. Faraday says, "which I thought vicious and selfish, " Paris, ii. 3. and to enter into the service of science, which I...to take the bold and simple step of writing to Sir II. Davy." He was favourably received, and, in the next year, became Davy's assistant at the Institution;... | |
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