 | John Tyndall - 1868 - 192 pages
...to grasp him and his researches as a whole ; to seize upon the ideas which guided him, and connected them ; to gain entrance into that strong and active brain, and read from it the riddle of the world — this is a work not easy of performance, and all but impossible amid the distraction of duties of... | |
 | 1868 - 472 pages
...to grasp him and his researches as a whole ; to seize upon the ideas which guided him, and connected them ; to gain entrance into that strong and active brain, and read from it the riddle of the world — this is a work not easy of performance, and all but impossible amid the distraction of duties of... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - 646 pages
...to grasp him and his researches as a whole ; to seize upon the ideas which guided him, and connected them ; to gain entrance into that strong and active brain, and read from it the riddle of the world — this is a work not easy of performance, and all but impossible amid the distraction of duties of... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1873 - 202 pages
...to grasp him and his researches as a whole; to seize upon the ideas which guided him, and connected them; to gain entrance into that strong and active brain, and read from it the riddle of the world—this is a work not easy of performance., and all but imposBible amid the distraction of duties... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1890 - 206 pages
...to grasp him and his researches as a whole; to seize upon the ideas which guided him, and connected them; to gain entrance into that strong and active brain, and read from it the riddle of the world—this is a work not easy of performance, and all but impossible amid the distraction of duties... | |
 | Frederick Solomon Spiers - 1920 - 320 pages
...character and the heauty of his life — still to grasp him and his researches as a whole ; to seize upon the ideas which guided him and connect them ;...the opinion of Carlyle that a really able man never proceeded from entirely stupid parents — said that he once used the privilege of his intimacy with... | |
 | 1868 - 924 pages
...to grasp him and his researches as a whole ; to seize upon the ideas which guided him, and connected them ; to gain entrance into that strong and active brain, and read from it the riddle of the world — this is a work not easy of performance, and all but impossible amid the distraction of duties of... | |
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I may be with the researches and discoveries of that great master, however numerous the illustrations which occur to me of the loftiness of Faraday's character and the beauty of his life — still to grasp him and his researches as a whole; to seize upon... 