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Pagina 11
... favourite amusements was to exhibit to his playfellows the operation of melt- ing in a candle scraps of tin ; or to make and explode detonating balls . Another was the inventing and repeating to them fairy tales and romances . At times ...
... favourite amusements was to exhibit to his playfellows the operation of melt- ing in a candle scraps of tin ; or to make and explode detonating balls . Another was the inventing and repeating to them fairy tales and romances . At times ...
Pagina 12
... favourite amusement , until , in mature life , he became absorbed in scientific pursuits : and it has been said upon high authority , that if Davy had not been the first chemist , he would have been the first poet of his age . This ...
... favourite amusement , until , in mature life , he became absorbed in scientific pursuits : and it has been said upon high authority , that if Davy had not been the first chemist , he would have been the first poet of his age . This ...
Pagina 19
... favourite sports . Yet the ruling passion was still shewn in the amusement of his sick hours , which were chiefly devoted to the preparation of ' Salmonia . ' Of the merits of this book as a manual for the fly - fisher , we presume not ...
... favourite sports . Yet the ruling passion was still shewn in the amusement of his sick hours , which were chiefly devoted to the preparation of ' Salmonia . ' Of the merits of this book as a manual for the fly - fisher , we presume not ...
Pagina 74
... favourite subject of exertion with him through life . For the sole purpose of exerting a more effectual influence in introducing it into India , he became a Director of the East India Company ; and , at his own expense , caused the ...
... favourite subject of exertion with him through life . For the sole purpose of exerting a more effectual influence in introducing it into India , he became a Director of the East India Company ; and , at his own expense , caused the ...
Pagina 75
... favourite science on a firm foundation , than any man ; and his indefatigable diligence in inquiry , and unquestioned honesty of relation , entitle him to a very high place among the fathers of modern chemistry . On this point we may ...
... favourite science on a firm foundation , than any man ; and his indefatigable diligence in inquiry , and unquestioned honesty of relation , entitle him to a very high place among the fathers of modern chemistry . On this point we may ...
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Pagina 148 - May the great God, whom I worship, grant to my country, and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious victory, and may no misconduct in any one tarnish it; and may humanity after victory be the predominant feature in the British fleet! For myself individually, I commit my life to Him that made me; and may His blessing alight on my endeavours for serving my country faithfully!
Pagina 44 - Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance, on the man who hastens home, because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school.
Pagina 31 - I pray you Master Lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself.
Pagina 15 - To this he replied, he was so well assured of the strength of his light-house, that he should only wish to be there in the greatest storm that ever blew under the face of the heavens, that he might see what effect it would have upon the building.
Pagina 173 - During the long and tedious voyages in which he was engaged, his eagerness and activity were never in the least abated. No incidental temptation could detain him for a moment ; even those intervals of recreation, which sometimes unavoidably occurred, and were looked for by us with a longing, that persons who have experienced the fatigues of service will readily excuse, were submitted to by him with a certain impatience, whenever they could not be employed in making further provision for the more...
Pagina 134 - ... equal to the elegance of his taste, and to the purity and vigour of his style, his history might be placed on a level with the most admired compositions of the ancients. But, instead of rejecting the improbable tales of chronicle writers, he was at the utmost pains to adorn them ; and hath clothed, with all the beauties and graces of fiction, those legends, which formerly had only its wildness and extravagance.
Pagina 50 - Thus much I should perhaps have said though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to cry to, but with the Prophet, O earth, earth, earth!
Pagina 27 - I find his grace my very good lord indeed, and I believe he doth as singularly favour me, as any subject within this realm : howbeit, son Roper, I may tell thee, I have no cause to be proud thereof, for if my head would win him a castle in France (for then there was war between us), it should not fail to go.
Pagina 168 - I concluded that what we had seen, which I named Sandwich Land, was either a group of islands, or else a point of the continent. For I firmly believe that there is a tract of land near the Pole which is the source of most of the ice that is spread over this vast southern ocean.
Pagina 109 - In private life he was gentle, modest, placable, kind, of simple manners, and so averse from parade and dogmatism, as to be not only unostentatious, but even somewhat inactive in conversation. His superiority was never felt but in the instruction which he imparted, or in the attention which his generous preference usually directed to the more obscure members of the company. The simplicity of his manners was far from excluding that perfect urbanity...