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" My desire to escape from trade, which I thought vicious and selfish, and to enter into the service of Science, which I imagined made its pursuers amiable and liberal, induced me at last to take the bold and simple step of writing to Sir H. Davy... "
Essays in Historical Chemistry - Page 189
by Thomas Edward Thorpe - 1902 - 582 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 132

1870 - 624 pages
...taken of his last four lectures.' ' My desire,' he wrote some years afterwards to Dr. Paris, ' was to escape from trade, which I thought vicious and...imagined ' made its pursuers amiable and liberal.' The answer (to Davy's honour) was immediate, kind, and favourable. ' At the same time that he gratified...
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The Life of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart

John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 598 pages
...lectures in Albemarle Street. I took notes, and afterwards wrote them out more fairly in a quarto volume. My desire to escape from trade, which I thought vicious...to take the bold and simple step of writing to Sir H. Davy, expressing my wishes, and a hope that, if an opportunity came in his way, he would favour...
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The Journal of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Volume 1

Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1831 - 690 pages
...lectures in Albemarle-street. I took notes, and afterwards wrote them out more fairly in a quarto volume. My desire to escape from trade, which I thought vicious...to take the bold and simple step of writing to Sir H. Davy, expressing my wishes, and a hope that if an opportunity came in his way, he would favour my...
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The Life of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart., LL.D.: Late President of the Royal ...

John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 582 pages
...lectures in Albemarle Street. I took notes, and afterwards wrote them out more fairly in a quarto volume. My desire to escape from trade, which I thought vicious...to take the bold and simple step of writing to Sir H. Davy, expressing my wishes, and a hope that, if an opportunity came in his way, he would favour...
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The Monthly Review

1831 - 660 pages
...in Albemarle street. I took notes, and afterwards wrote them out more fairly in a quarto volume. ' " My desire to escape from trade, which I thought vicious...selfish, and to enter into the service of science, which / imagined made its pursuers amiable and liberal, induced me at last to take the bold and simple step...
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History of the Inductive Sciences: From the Earliest to the ..., Volume 3

William Whewell - 1837 - 646 pages
...that period excited the highest admiration ' . " My desire to escape from trade," Mr. Faraday says, " which I thought vicious and selfish, and to enter...to take the bold and simple step of writing to Sir H. Davy." He was favourably received, and, in the next year, became Davy's assistant at the Institution...
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History of the Inductive Sciences: From the Earliest to the ..., Volume 3

William Whewell - 1837 - 1046 pages
...that period excited the highest admiration8. " My desire to escape from trade," Mr. Faraday says, " which I thought vicious and selfish, and to enter...to take the bold and simple step of writing to Sir H. Davy." He was favourably received, and, in the next year, became Davy's assistant at the Institution...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 112

1872 - 858 pages
...the writer. It shows that the most depressing day spoke of his desire to escape from traije, which he thought vicious and selfish, and to enter into the service of science, isfying — the truths. investigation of physical circumstances could not overcome his ] which he imagined...
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History of the Inductive Sciences: XI. Electricity. XII. Magnetism. XIII ...

William Whewell - 1847 - 740 pages
...desire to escape from trade," Mr. Faraday says, "which I thought vicious and selfish, " Paris, ii. 3. and to enter into the service of science, which I...to take the bold and simple step of writing to Sir II. Davy." He was favourably received, and, in the next year, became Davy's assistant at the Institution;...
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Original memoranda,etc

Robert Southey - 1850 - 770 pages
...Wilberforce, vol. 4, p. 266. " WHEN Mr. Faraday told Davy that he wished to escape from trade, which he thought ' vicious and selfish,' and to enter into the service of science which he imagined made its pursuers amiable and liberal, Sir Humphrey smiled at the notion, and said he would...
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