 | William Whewell - 1837 - 646 pàgines
...among smoke and vapour, soot and flame, poisons and poverty. " Yet among all these evils," he says, " I seem to myself to live so sweetly, that, may I die if I would change places with the Persian king." He is, indeed, well worthy of admiration, as one of the first who pursued the labours of the furnace... | |
 | William Whewell - 1837 - 1046 pàgines
...among smoke and vapour, soot and flame, poisons and poverty. " Yet among all these evils," he says, " I seem to myself to live so sweetly, that, may I die if I would change places with the Persian king." He is, indeed, well worthy of admiration, as one of the first who pursued the labours of the furnace... | |
 | William Whewell - 1847 - 740 pàgines
...among smoke and vapour, soot and flame, poisons and poverty. " Yet among all these evils," he says, " I seem to myself to live so sweetly, that, may I die if 1 would change places with the Persian king." He is, indeed, well worthy of admiration, as one of the... | |
 | English cyclopaedia - 1872 - 640 pàgines
...man of Bcience, " who lives amidst smoke and vapour, soot and flame, poisons aud poverty," he say*, " yet among all these evils, I seem to myself to live...die if I would change places with the Persian king." His enthusiasm was grounded on a luve of science. He says, " My kingdom is not of this world ; I trust... | |
 | William Keddie - 1854 - 400 pàgines
...amongst smoke and vapour, soot and flame, poisons and poverty. "Yet amongst all these evils," says he, "I seem to myself to live so sweetly, that may I die if I would change places with the Persian king. I trust that I have got hold of my pitcher by the right handle — the true method of treating this... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1855 - 524 pàgines
...pleasure among smoke and vapour, soot and flame, poisons and poverty. "Yet among these evils," he says, " I seem to myself to live so sweetly, that may I die if I would change places with the Persian king. My kingdom is not of this world. I trust that I have got hold of my pitcher by the right handle—the... | |
 | William Whewell - 1858 - 682 pàgines
...among smoke and vapor, soot and flame, poisons and poverty. " Yet among all these evils," he says, " I seem to myself to live so sweetly, that, may I die if I would change places with the Persian king." He is, indeed, well worthy of admiration, as one of the first who pursued the labors of the furnace... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1861 - 254 pàgines
...OF HEW TORK, NY Two hundred years ago, a German chemist spoke of his brethren in the following brief and laconic way : "They are a strange class of mortals,...enthusiasm to these subjects, there arises such a loving interest, such an indescribable fascination, as is rarely experienced in other pursuits. And... | |
 | William Whewell - 1866 - 680 pàgines
...and flame, poisons and poverty. " Yet among all these evils," he says, " I seem to myself to live to sweetly, that, may I die if I would change places with the Persian king." He is, indeed, well worthy of admiration, as one of the first who pursued the labors of the furnace... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1879 - 622 pàgines
...impulse to seek their pleasure among smoke and vapour, soot and flame, poisons and poverty," adds : " Yet among all these evils I seem to myself to live...die if I would change places with the Persian King ! " The fascination of original research is undoubted, the enthusiasm which it sometimes inspires is... | |
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Subterranea," he speaks of the chemists as a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasure among smoke and vapour, soot and flame, poisons and poverty. ' Yet among all these evils,' he says, ' I seem to myself to... 
