 | 1818 - 764 páginas
...assembled in full congregation, Professor of Chemistry. " At the time this honour was conferred upon me, I knew nothing at all of Chemistry, had never read a...on the subject; nor seen a single experiment in it; but I was tired with mathematics and natural philosophy, and the vc/iementiarima gloria ciipido stimulated... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1818 - 574 páginas
...in full congregation, professor of chemistry. At the time this hononr was conferred upon me / kntw nothing at all of chemistry, had never read a syllable...single experiment in it.' Whether the confidence of the elector or the modesty of the candidate, in this appointment were most t be admired we shall for the... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1818 - 466 páginas
...lectures in the University, he declined the contest. At the time this honour was conferred upon me, I knew nothing at all of Chemistry, had never read a...on the subject; nor seen a single experiment in it; but I was tired with mathematics and natural philosophy, and the vehementissima gloria cupido stimulated... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1818 - 454 páginas
...lectures in the University, he declined the contest. At the time this honour was conferred upon me, I knew nothing at all of Chemistry, had never read a...on the subject ; nor seen a single experiment in it ; but I was tired with mathematics and natural philosophy, and the vehementissima gloria cupido stimulated... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1818 - 628 páginas
...Professor of Chemistry, on the death of Dr. iladley. ' At the time this honour was conferred upon me, I knew nothing at all of Chemistry, had never read a...the subject ; nor seen a single experiment in it; hut I was tired with mathematics and natural philosophy, and the vehement issinin gloria citpiiln stimulated... | |
 | 1818 - 782 páginas
...shelves with bulky systems of German Chemistry. " At the time this honour was conferred upon me, I knew nothing at all of Chemistry, had never read a...on the subject ; nor seen a single experiment in it ; but I was tired with mathematics and natural philosophy, and the vehementistima gloria cupido stimulated... | |
 | 1818 - 628 páginas
...of his abilities and perseverance. '• At the time that honour was conferred <и me," he «ays, " I knew nothing at all of chemistry,— had never read...syllable on the subject, nor seen a single experiment on it, — but 1 was tired with mathematics and natural philosophy ; and the ^iiifmcnlltsii/ta glor\<e... | |
 | 1818 - 708 páginas
...MA, in 1 762, in 1 76* he was unanimously elected Professor of Chemistry, although, oberves he, " I knew nothing at all of chemistry, had never read a...syllable on the subject, nor seen a single experiment on it ; but I was tired with mathematics and natural philosophy, and the — Vehementissimee gloria... | |
 | 1818 - 590 páginas
...'MA, in 1762, in 176* he was unanimously elected Professor of Chemistry, although, oberves he, " I knew nothing at all of chemistry, had never read a...syllable on the subject, nor seen a single experiment on it ; but I was tired with mathematics and natural philosophy, and the — Vehementissimae gloria... | |
 | 1819 - 196 páginas
...honours : and, Nov. 19, 1764, was unanimously elected professor of chemistry, though he had then u never read a syllable on the subject, nor seen a single experiment." He procured, however, an operator from Paris ; buried himself, as it were, in his laboratory ; and,... | |
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I knew nothing at all of Chemistry, had never read a syllable on the subject; nor seen a single experiment in it... 
