 But facts were important to me, and saved me. I could trust a fact, and always cross-examined an assertion. So when I questioned Mrs. Marcet's book by such little experiments as I could find means to perform, and found it true to the facts as I could...  The American Journal of Science and Arts - Page 371868Full view - About this book
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...'Conversations on Chemistry,' which gave me my foundation in that science." — " I felt that I hod got hold of an anchor in chemical knowledge, and clung fast to it. Thence my deep veneration for Mrs. Marcct, first as one who had conferred personal good and pleasure on me, and then as one able to convey... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1868 - 192 pages
...experiments as I could find means to perform, and found it true to the facts as I could understand them, I felt that I had got hold of an anchor in chemical...fast to it. Thence my deep veneration for Mrs. Marcet — fir&t as one who had conferred great personal good and pleasure on me ; and then as one able to... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - 636 pages
...indebted for o copy of the original letter. facts as I could understand them, I felt that I had got bold of an anchor in chemical knowledge, and clung fast...personal good and pleasure on me ; and then as one ahle to convey the truth and principle of those boundless fields of knowledge which concern natural... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - 646 pages
...physicist. t To whom I am indebted for a copy of the original letter. facta as I could understand them, I felt that I had got hold of an anchor in chemical knowledge, and elung fast to it. Thence my deep veneration for Mrs. Marcet — first, as one who had conferred great... | |
 | Bence Jones, Michael Faraday - 1870 - 522 pages
...experiments as I could find means to perform, and found it true to the facts as I could understand them, I felt that I had got hold of an anchor in chemical...Marcet : first, as one who had conferred great personal 1858. good and pleasure on me, and then as one able to conJET.66-67. vey the truth and principle of... | |
 | Richard Quain - 1870 - 172 pages
...experiments as I could find means to perform, and found it true to the facts as I could understand them, I felt that I had got hold of an anchor in chemical...veneration for Mrs. Marcet, first as one who had conferred personal good Effects »J early kuoiv. ledge of, illustrated. Michnel Faraday and pleasure on me, and... | |
 | Josiah Miller - 1870 - 272 pages
...experiments as I could find means to perform, and found it true to the facts as I could understand them, I felt that I had got hold of an anchor in chemical knowledge, and clung fast to it.' He valued Inductive Metho, r _ theories as suggesting the" patn" loTacts and their laws, but regarded... | |
 | Glasgow sabbath school union - 1870 - 834 pages
...experiments as I could find means to perform, and found it true to the facts as I could understand them, I felt that I had got hold of an anchor in chemical knowledge, and clung fast to it." The first quality to be observed in the progress of the young student's self-education is industry,... | |
 | James Parton - 1871 - 730 pages
...experiments as I could find means to perform, and found it true to the facts as I could understand them, I felt that I had got hold of an anchor in chemical knowledge, and clung fast to it." He always felt the deepest veneration for Mrs. Marcet, and it was a great delight to him in after years... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1873 - 202 pages
...experiments as I could find means to perform, and found it true to the facts as I could understand them, I felt that I had got hold of an anchor in chemical...clung fast to it. Thence my deep veneration for Mrs. Marcet—fir&t as one who had conferred great personal good and pleasure on me; and then as one able... | |
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