Heroes of the Laboratory and the WorkshopG. Routledge and Sons, 1859 - 222 páginas |
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... father in scientific researches and publications , and whose abilities and character had excited the most sanguine expectations of his friends . This unhappy youth was seized with despondency , which produced fearful results 14 CLAUDE ...
... father in scientific researches and publications , and whose abilities and character had excited the most sanguine expectations of his friends . This unhappy youth was seized with despondency , which produced fearful results 14 CLAUDE ...
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... father , the affection of his mother , and the honours which appeared to await him , existence became a burden too insupportable for him to endure . Desti- tute of the consolations of religious hope , and without holy principle , he had ...
... father , the affection of his mother , and the honours which appeared to await him , existence became a burden too insupportable for him to endure . Desti- tute of the consolations of religious hope , and without holy principle , he had ...
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... father , who utterly neglected the care of his son , so that he was deprived of the advantages of even a common education . This disgraceful conduct re- duced the family to want , and James , until he was seventeen years old , was ...
... father , who utterly neglected the care of his son , so that he was deprived of the advantages of even a common education . This disgraceful conduct re- duced the family to want , and James , until he was seventeen years old , was ...
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... father and mother's souls , that in my youth sent me to school , by which , by the sufferance of God , I get my living , I hope truly . " This was no small praise , —for in those days , when learning was at a much lower ebb in England ...
... father and mother's souls , that in my youth sent me to school , by which , by the sufferance of God , I get my living , I hope truly . " This was no small praise , —for in those days , when learning was at a much lower ebb in England ...
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... Father of Printing , " says the historian Gibbon , " expressed a laudable desire to elucidate the history of his country , but , instead of translating the Latin chronicle of Ralph Higden , he could only venture on the English version ...
... Father of Printing , " says the historian Gibbon , " expressed a laudable desire to elucidate the history of his country , but , instead of translating the Latin chronicle of Ralph Higden , he could only venture on the English version ...
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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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