Michael FaradayMacmillan and Company, 1872 - 176 oldal |
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... reader's imagination to combine them . Let us watch him on an ordinary day . After eight hours ' sleep , he rises in time to breakfast at eight o'clock , goes round the Institution to see that all is in order , and descends into the ...
... reader's imagination to combine them . Let us watch him on an ordinary day . After eight hours ' sleep , he rises in time to breakfast at eight o'clock , goes round the Institution to see that all is in order , and descends into the ...
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... readers who wish to make themselves better acquainted with his work will find an admirable summary of it in Professor Tyndall's " Faraday as a Man of Science . " In Sections IV . and V. , however , I have endeavoured to give an idea of ...
... readers who wish to make themselves better acquainted with his work will find an admirable summary of it in Professor Tyndall's " Faraday as a Man of Science . " In Sections IV . and V. , however , I have endeavoured to give an idea of ...
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... reader add these terms all together , and the resultant will be about what is meant.1 Faraday's love to children was one way in which this kindliness was shown . Having no children of his own , he surrounded himself usually with his ...
... reader add these terms all together , and the resultant will be about what is meant.1 Faraday's love to children was one way in which this kindliness was shown . Having no children of his own , he surrounded himself usually with his ...
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... reader . When quite a young man he drew the following ideal portrait " The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion , but determined to judge for him- self . He should not be biassed by appearances , have no ...
... reader . When quite a young man he drew the following ideal portrait " The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion , but determined to judge for him- self . He should not be biassed by appearances , have no ...
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... reader may learn more of his intel- lectual and moral features by combining the several esti- mates which have been made by different minds . Earlier biographies have been already referred to , but my sketch may well be supplemented by ...
... reader may learn more of his intel- lectual and moral features by combining the several esti- mates which have been made by different minds . Earlier biographies have been already referred to , but my sketch may well be supplemented by ...
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93. oldal - The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion, but determined to judge for himself. He should not be biased by appearances, have no favorite hypothesis, be of no school, and in doctrine have no master. He should not be a respecter of persons, but of things. Truth should be his primary object. If to these qualities be added industry, he may indeed hope to walk within the veil of the temple of Nature.