 | 1810 - 556 pages
...qui se montoit à plus de cent mille écus de vente; de sorte que M. Cavendish se trouva de beaucoup le plus riche de tous les savans, et probablement aussi le plus savant de tous les riches. Alors ses pareus reconnoissanl son mérite , voulurent se rapprocher de lui, mais il ne changea nullement... | |
 | 1810 - 600 pages
...se montait à plus de cent mille écus de rente j en sortt» que M. Cavendish se trouva de beaucoup le plus riche de tous les savans, et probablement aussi le plus savant de tous les riches. Alors ses parens reconnaissant son mérite, voulurent se rapprocher de lui , mais il ne changea nullement... | |
 | George Wilson - 1851 - 508 pages
...was further, immensely wealthy ; so wealthy indeed, that, as M. Biot epigrammatically puts it, he was "le plus riche de tous les savans, et probablement aussi, le plus savant de tous les riches."* Nevertheless, his biographers cannot so much as agree upon the country of his birth, although his death... | |
 | Erskine Neale - 1852 - 250 pages
...scientific relative his heir, and left him the whole.* He thus became, as M. Biot wittily expresses it, " le plus riche de tous les savans, et probablement aussi le plus savant de tous les riches." How he slumbered over the mighty trust reposed in him, may be gathered from the following statement.... | |
 | James David Forbes - 1856 - 218 pages
...light. M. Biot's epigrammatic description of him will probably long remain applicable, — " II était le plus riche de tous les savans, et probablement aussi le plus savant de tous les riches." This isolation of interest was doubtless due, quite (602.) as much to a constitutionally morbid temperament,... | |
 | 1879 - 1002 pages
...mourut âgé de soixante-dix-sept ans, une fortune de 30 millions. Gavendish était ainsi « le.plus riche de tous les savans, et probablement aussi le plus savant de tous les riches. » Gavendish avait reçu de Hyde Wollaston un appareil que ce dernier tenait lui-même, par voie d'héritage,... | |
 | Thomas Edward Thorpe - 1894 - 406 pages
...aristocrats, and hoth, from being poor, became very rich: Cavendish, indeed, was, as M. Biot has said, " le plus riche de tous les savans et probablement aussi le plus savant de tous les riches." But here the resemblance ends : in character, temperament, and genius, in everything that constitutes... | |
 | 1900 - 440 pages
...facts, or of drawing any correa inferences from them. Cavendish, "le plus riche de tous les > savane et probablement aussi le plus savant de tous les riches,"...chemical pursuits, and it must ever remain doubtful bow far he gave in his adhesion to the new doârine to which his own cardinal discovery so largely... | |
 | 1908 - 500 pages
...of money, he was unable to use it. He died worth £ 1,15 7,000, and Biot epigrammatic-ally calls him "Le plus riche de tous les savans, et probablement aussi le plus savant de tous les riches." Many anecdotes are related of his oddities, his shyness in the presence of men, and his hatred of women.... | |
 | 1908 - 506 pages
...money, he was unable to use it. He died worth ±1,157,000, and Biot epigramnmtically calls him "Le phls riche de tous les savans, et probablement aussi le plus savant de tous les riches." Many anecdotes are related of his oddities, his shyness in the presence of men, and his hatred of women.... | |
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le plus riche de tous les savans; et probablement aussi, le plus savant de tous les riches. 
