The Annual Biography and Obituary, Band 14Longman., 1830 |
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... experimental appointment to Sierra Leone , just then decided on at the suggestion of General Turner , then Governor of the Colony . The lamented death of that zealous officer , however , deprived him of the gratifica- tion of seeing his ...
... experimental appointment to Sierra Leone , just then decided on at the suggestion of General Turner , then Governor of the Colony . The lamented death of that zealous officer , however , deprived him of the gratifica- tion of seeing his ...
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... experiment performed by him at Penzance was for the purpose of investigating the nature of the air contained in the bladders of sea - weed . His instru . ments , however , were of the rudest description , manufactured by himself out of ...
... experiment performed by him at Penzance was for the purpose of investigating the nature of the air contained in the bladders of sea - weed . His instru . ments , however , were of the rudest description , manufactured by himself out of ...
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... experiments , performed with the utmost address , and explained in language at once the most intelligible and the most eloquent . He brought down Science from those heights which were before accessible only to a few , and placed it ...
... experiments , performed with the utmost address , and explained in language at once the most intelligible and the most eloquent . He brought down Science from those heights which were before accessible only to a few , and placed it ...
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... experiments ; in the con- ception of which , as he himself candidly'informs us , he was greatly aided by the conversation and advice of his friend Dr. Beddoes . He was also occasionally assisted by Mr. W. Clay- field , a gentleman ...
... experiments ; in the con- ception of which , as he himself candidly'informs us , he was greatly aided by the conversation and advice of his friend Dr. Beddoes . He was also occasionally assisted by Mr. W. Clay- field , a gentleman ...
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... experiments to which we have alluded , favour- ably as they were received , would probably have shared the fate of many other discoveries , whose practical applications were not obvious ; but before the impression produced on the ...
... experiments to which we have alluded , favour- ably as they were received , would probably have shared the fate of many other discoveries , whose practical applications were not obvious ; but before the impression produced on the ...
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Seite 395 - And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the Word of His grace, Which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
Seite 133 - Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Multi, sed omnes illacrymabiles Urgentur, ignotique longa Nocte, carent quia vate sacro.
Seite 160 - Time made thee what thou wast, king of the woods ; And time hath made thee what thou art — a cave For owls to roost in.
Seite 268 - Thoughts on the English Government — addressed to the quiet good sense of the people of England...
Seite 201 - Essays on the Lives and Writings of Fletcher of Saltoun and the Poet Thomson: Biographical, critical, and political.
Seite 47 - ... in a state of intense activity ; and a platina wire, communicating with the positive side, was brought in contact with the upper surface of the alkali. The whole apparatus was in the open atmosphere.
Seite 50 - In sciences kindred to chemistry, the knowledge of the nature of the alkalies, and the analogies arising in consequence, will open many new views; they may lead to the solution of many problems in geology, and shew that agents may have operated in the formation of rocks and earths which have not hitherto been suspected to exist.
Seite 144 - For the repeated thanks and grants bestowed upon you by this house, in gratitude for your many and eminent services, you have thought fit this day to offer us your acknowledgments; but this nation well knows that it is still largely your debtor. It owes to you the proud satisfaction, that amidst the constellation of illustrious warriors, who have recently visited our country...
Seite 63 - The Bakerian Lecture, on some of the Combinations of Oxymuriatic Gas and Oxygen, and on the Chemical Relations of these Principles to inflammable Bodies.