 But then our subjects are so glorious, that to work at them rejoices and encourages the feeblest ; delights and enchants the strongest. " I have not yet seen anything from Magnus. Thoughts of him always delight me. We shall look at his black sulphur together....  Faraday as a Discoverer - Page 152by John Tyndall - 1868 - 171 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1870 - 624 pages
...his letters and his talk. Complaining late in life to Tyndall about his failing health, he writes, ' But then our ' subjects are so glorious, that to work...the feeblest, delights and enchants the strongest.' ' The contemplation of nature,' says Tyudall, ' and his own relation to her, produced in Faraday a... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - 636 pages
...well, 1 fear. I wish you would get yourself strong first and work afterwards. As for the fruits, 1 am sure they will be good, for though I sometimes...heard from Schonbein the other day. He tells me that Licbig is lull of ozone, »'.«. of allotropic oxygen. " Good-bye for the present. " Ever, my dear... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - 646 pages
...well, I fear. I wish you would get yourself strong first and work afterwards. As for the fruits, 1 am sure they will be good, for though I sometimes...shall look at his black sulphur together. I heard from Schoubein the other day. He tells me that Liebig is full of ozone, ije. of allotropic oxygen. " Good-bye... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1872 - 984 pages
...year, instead of an accumulating fortune of £150,000 — as a compensation he hints to Fro£ Tyndal, " mes, or the difficulty of paying taxée. " IV. This...my friends, is reason and wisdom ; but, after all, OBSERVATIONS ОЯ MENTAL EDUCATION. If the term education muy be understood in so large a senie аз... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1872 - 988 pages
...instead of an ассшппbiting fortune of £150,000 — as a compensation he hints to Prof. Tyndid, " Our subjects are so glorious, that to work at them...the feeblest ; delights and enchants the strongest." OBSERVATIONS OX MENTAL EDUCATION. If (lie term education may be understood in so large a seneo as to... | |
 | 1873 - 840 pages
...to say perpetually to his associates, as Faraday said to Tyndall, under untoward circumstances : " Our subjects are so glorious, that to work at them...the feeblest ; delights and enchants the strongest." Genuine gratitude was also conspicuous in all he did. The school-boy who brought him an uncommon fish,... | |
 | 1875 - 506 pages
...to say perpetnally to his associates, as Faraday said to Tyndall, under untoward circumstances : " Our subjects are so glorious, that to work at them...the feeblest ; delights and enchants the strongest." Genuine gratitude was also conspicuous in all he did. The school-boy who brought him an uncommon fish,... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp - 1877 - 294 pages
...delight in a sunset or a thunderstorm amounted to ecstasy. Our subjects are so glorious, he says himself, that to work at them rejoices and encourages the feeblest, delights and contents the strongest. In this delight and enchantment he was always in the temper of the poet, and,... | |
 | Charles Frederick Holder - 1893 - 420 pages
...to say perpetually to his associates, as Faraday said to Tyndall, under untoward circumstances : " Our subjects are so glorious, that to work at them...the feeblest ; delights and enchants the strongest." Genuine gratitude was also conspicuous in all he did. The school-boy who brought him an uncommon fish,... | |
 | Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research - 1907 - 92 pages
...importance and their manifold relationships, can we say less than Faraday once wrote to Tyndall: " Our subjects are so glorious that to work at them...the feeblest, delights and enchants the strongest." THE QUALITIES OF THE SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATOR. By CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT, PRESIDENT OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY.... | |
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