 | 1870 - 624 Seiten
...taken of his last four lectures.' ' My desire,' he wrote some years afterwards to Dr. Paris, ' was to escape from trade, which I thought vicious and...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 - 598 Seiten
...Institution, took me to hear some of Sir H. Davy's last lectures in Albemarle Street. I took notes, and afterwards wrote them out more fairly in a quarto...to take 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... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 582 Seiten
...Institution, took me to hear some of Sir H. Davy's last lectures in Albemarle Street. I took notes, and afterwards wrote them out more fairly in a quarto...to take 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... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1831 - 690 Seiten
...Institution, took me to hear some of Sir H. Davy's last lectures in Albemarle-street. I took notes, and afterwards wrote them out more fairly in a quarto...to take 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... | |
 | 1831 - 660 Seiten
...Institution, took me to hear some of Sir H. Davy's last lectures in Albemarle street. I took notes, and afterwards wrote them out more fairly in a quarto...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 Whewell - 1837 - 646 Seiten
...that period excited the highest admiration ' . " My desire to escape from trade," Mr. Faraday says, " which I thought vicious and selfish, and to enter...to take the bold 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... | |
 | William Whewell - 1837 - 1046 Seiten
...that period excited the highest admiration8. " My desire to escape from trade," Mr. Faraday says, " which I thought vicious and selfish, and to enter...to take the bold 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... | |
 | 1872 - 858 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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;... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1850 - 770 Seiten
...Wilberforce, vol. 4, p. 266. " WHEN Mr. Faraday told Davy that he wished to escape from trade, which he thought ' vicious and selfish,' and to enter into the service of science which he imagined made its pursuers amiable and liberal, Sir Humphrey smiled at the notion, and said he would... | |
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My desire to escape from trade, which I thought vicious and selfish, and to enter into the service of Science, which I imagined made its pursuers amiable and liberal, induced me at last to take the bold and simple step of writing to Sir H. Davy... 
