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Golden Lives: Biographies for the Day (Classic Reprint) Alexander Hay Japp Previsualització no disponible - 2018 |
Golden Lives: Biographies for the Day (Classic Reprint) Alexander Hay Japp Previsualització no disponible - 2017 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
active beautiful Brassey Brassey's character Chinese Christian Church City Philosophical Society confessions Cromarty Crown 8vo delight devotion duty early effort experience fact faith fancy Faraday Faraday's feeling felt friends German give hand heart hope Hugh Miller Hursley idea influence interest John Keble Kaiserswerth Keble's Kilsyth kind labour letters living look matter means Michael Faraday mind missionary moral nature ness never once parish peculiar Perthes philosophy poems poor practical quiet racter Railway realised regard religion religious remarkable Robert Murray M'Cheyne Sandemanian says scarcely scientific Scotland seemed sense Sir Arthur Helps Small 8vo soon speak spirit spite success sympathy tendency things Thomas Brassey thought tion took true trust truth voluntaryism Walter Powell whilst whole William Burns wonderful words writes young
Passatges populars
Pàgina 92 - As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: So the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Pàgina 79 - Thy leaf has perish'd in the green, And, while we breathe beneath the sun, The world which credits what is done Is cold to all that might have been. So here shall silence guard thy fame But somewhere, out of human view, Whate'er thy hands are set to do Is wrought with tumult of acclaim.
Pàgina 305 - All this will, I am afraid, appear tolerably weak to the reader, and somewhat more than tolerably tedious. Let him remember, however, that the only merit to which I lay claim in the case is that of patient research — a merit in which whoever wills may rival or surpass me ; and that this humble faculty of patience, when rightly directed, may lead to more extraordinary developments of idea than even genius itself.
Pàgina 12 - ... whole mind ; you have converted me from one erroneous way, let me hope you will attempt to correct what others are wrong Again and again I attempt to say what I feel, but I cannot. Let me, however, claim not to be the selfish being that wishes to bend your affections for his own sake only. In whatever way I can best minister to your happiness, either by assiduity or by absence, it shall be done. Do not injure me by withdrawing your friendship, or punish me for aiming to be more than a friend...
Pàgina 91 - Seek ye first the kingdom of God. and all other things shall be added unto you...
Pàgina 4 - I entered the shop of a bookseller and bookbinder at the age of 13, in the year 1804, remaining there eight years, and during the chief part of the time bound books. Now it was in those books, in the hours after work, that I found the beginning of my philosophy. There were two that especially helped me, the ' Encyclopaedia Britannica,' from which I gained my first notions of electricity, and Mrs.
Pàgina 35 - Drawing me towards him, he said eagerly, ' Look there, Tyndall, that was my working-place. I bound books in that little nook.' A respectable-looking woman stood behind the counter : his conversation with me was too low to be heard by her, and he now turned to the counter to buy some cards as an excuse for our being there. He asked the woman her name — her predecessor's name — his predecessor's name. ' That won't do,' he said, with good-humoured impatience ; ' who was his predecessor ? '
Pàgina 315 - And whilst Astronomy is of all Sciences that which may be considered as most nearly representing Nature as she really is, Geology is that which most completely represents her as seen through the medium of the interpreting mind; the meaning of the phenomena that constitute its data being in almost every instance open to question, and the judgments passed upon the same facts being often different according to the qualifications of the several judges.
Pàgina 45 - Faraday was more than a philosopher; he was a prophet, and often wrought by an inspiration to be understood by sympathy alone. The prophetic element in his character occasionally coloured and even injured the utterance of the man of science ; but subtracting that element, though you might have conferred on him intellectual symmetry, you would have destroyed his motive force. But let us pass from the label of this casket to the jewel it contains.
Pàgina 38 - Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature ; and in such things as these, experiment is the best test of such consistency.