 But facts were important to me, and saved me. I could trust a fact, and always cross-examined an assertion. So when I questioned Mrs. Marcet's book by such little experiments as I could find means to perform, and found it true to the facts as I could...  Golden Lives: Biographies for the Day - Pàgina 5per H. A. Page - 1873 - 414 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1872 - 862 pàgines
...ant always cross-examined an assertion. So whou I questioned Mrs. Mircet's by such little exp-nmmts as I could find means to perform, and found it true to the facts ¡is I understood them, I felt that I had got hold of an anchor ia chemical knowledge, and clung fist... | |
 | 1869 - 718 pàgines
...'Conversations on Chemistry,' which gave me my foundation in that science." — " I felt that I hod got hold of an anchor in chemical knowledge, and clung fast to it. Thence my deep veneration for Mrs. Marcct, first as one who had conferred personal good and pleasure on me, and then as one able to convey... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1868 - 192 pàgines
...me. I could trust a fact, and always cross-examined an assertion. So when I questioned Mrs. Marcet's book by such little experiments as I could find means...fast to it. Thence my deep veneration for Mrs. Marcet — fir&t as one who had conferred great personal good and pleasure on me ; and then as one able to... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - 646 pàgines
...dislike to the modem term physicist. t To whom I am indebted for a copy of the original letter. facta as I could understand them, I felt that I had got hold of an anchor in chemical knowledge, and elung fast to it. Thence my deep veneration for Mrs. Marcet — first, as one who had conferred great... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - 636 pàgines
...me. I could trust a fact, and always crossexamined an assertion. So when I questioned Mrs. Marcct's book by such little experiments as I could find means to perform, and found it true to the * Faraday loved this word and employed it to the last ; he had an intense dislike to the modern term... | |
 | Bence Jones, Michael Faraday - 1870 - 522 pàgines
...me. I could trust a fact, and always cross-examined an assertion. So when I questioned Mrs. Marcet's book by such little experiments as I could find means...Marcet : first, as one who had conferred great personal 1858. good and pleasure on me, and then as one able to conJET.66-67. vey the truth and principle of... | |
 | Richard Quain - 1870 - 172 pàgines
...me. I could trust a fact, and always cross-examined an assertion. So when I questioned Mrs. Marcet's book by such little experiments as I could find means...veneration for Mrs. Marcet, first as one who had conferred personal good Effects »J early kuoiv. ledge of, illustrated. Michnel Faraday and pleasure on me, and... | |
 | Glasgow sabbath school union - 1870 - 834 pàgines
...me. I could trust a fact, and always cross-examined an assertion. So when I questioned Mrs. Marcet's book by such little experiments as I could find means...anchor in chemical knowledge, and clung fast to it." The first quality to be observed in the progress of the young student's self-education is industry,... | |
 | Josiah Miller - 1870 - 272 pàgines
...assertion. So when I questioned Mrs. Marcet's book (he refers to her " Conversations on Chemistry") by such little experiments as I could find means to...anchor in chemical knowledge, and clung fast to it.' He valued Inductive Metho, r _ theories as suggesting the" patn" loTacts and their laws, but regarded... | |
 | James Parton - 1871 - 730 pàgines
...me. I could trust a fact, and always cross-examined -an assertion. So when I questioned Mrs. Marcet's book by such little experiments as I could find means...anchor in chemical knowledge, and clung fast to it." He always felt the deepest veneration for Mrs. Marcet, and it was a great delight to him in after years... | |
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