Heroes of the Laboratory and the WorkshopG. Routledge and Sons, 1859 - 222 páginas |
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... excellent education . Yield- ing to his early predilection for science , he studied medicine ; and after taking his degree as M.D. at the University of Turin , he went to Paris , where he devoted himself with great diligence to the ...
... excellent education . Yield- ing to his early predilection for science , he studied medicine ; and after taking his degree as M.D. at the University of Turin , he went to Paris , where he devoted himself with great diligence to the ...
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... excellent op- portunity for exerting himself on this behalf . It chanced that Bennet was employed in preparing some machinery of a new description in a certain paper - mill , but a rumour was circulated that he did not know what he was ...
... excellent op- portunity for exerting himself on this behalf . It chanced that Bennet was employed in preparing some machinery of a new description in a certain paper - mill , but a rumour was circulated that he did not know what he was ...
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... excellent account ; in fact , he seems to have mas- tered the French language , and gained some acquaint- ance with the Flemish or Dutch : above all , he imbibed his passion for learning and romance , and made himself master of the art ...
... excellent account ; in fact , he seems to have mas- tered the French language , and gained some acquaint- ance with the Flemish or Dutch : above all , he imbibed his passion for learning and romance , and made himself master of the art ...
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... excellent qualities , placid in temper , kind and benevolent , of sound understanding , and perfect integrity . His boyish home had been a happy one , though humble . He was now apprenticed to an apothecary at Pen- zance , but ...
... excellent qualities , placid in temper , kind and benevolent , of sound understanding , and perfect integrity . His boyish home had been a happy one , though humble . He was now apprenticed to an apothecary at Pen- zance , but ...
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... excellent La Fontaine . Modest and retiring , he would never quit the humble abode in which fortune had crowned his industry and skill : there he delighted to welcome the promising young men of his own trade , to whom he was always a ...
... excellent La Fontaine . Modest and retiring , he would never quit the humble abode in which fortune had crowned his industry and skill : there he delighted to welcome the promising young men of his own trade , to whom he was always a ...
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Página ix - Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
Página 214 - And Moses said unto the children of Israel, See, the Lord hath called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah ; and he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship...
Página iii - He needs must think of her once more, How in the grave she lies; And with his hard, rough hand he wipes A tear out of his eyes.
Página 183 - You need not fash yourself any more about that, man ; I " ' have now made an engine that shall not waste a particle " ' of steam. It shall all be boiling hot ; — aye, and hot water "
Página 13 - That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements and feelings and characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going, but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting from the truth of the description and the sentiment is denied to me.
Página 17 - He is as plain a looking man as one of the boors of the Peak, or one of his own carters ; but when he speaks all ears listen, and every mind is filled with wonder at the things he pronounces to be practicable.
Página 7 - Including their Church and State, the Reorganization of the Inquisition, the Rise, Progress, and Consolidation of the Jesuits, and the means taken to effect the Counter-reformation in Germany, to revive Romanism in France, and to suppress Protestant Principles in the South of Europe. Translated from the last edition of the German by WALTER K. KELLY, of Trinity College, Dublin. " This translation of Ranke we consider to be very superior to any other in the English language.
Página 28 - Wordsworth, Lord Macaulay ; with a General Index. The articles are chiefly selected so as to afford a succession of graphic parts of English History, chronologically arranged, from the consideration that the portions of history upon which general readers delight to dwell are those which tell some story which is complete in itself, or furnish some illustration which has a separate as well as a general interest.
Página 215 - AND the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah : and I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship...
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