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Page 13 - I now design to suppress. Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady, that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits, as have to do with her.
Page 273 - Empire, with one nother, and with foreign philosophers, — to obtain a more general attention to the objects of Science, and a removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress.
Page 44 - I have long held an opinion, almost amounting to conviction, in common I believe with many other lovers of natural knowledge, that the various forms under which the forces of matter are made manifest have one common origin; or, in other words, are so directly related and mutually dependent, that they are convertible, as it were, one into another, and possess equivalents of power in their action.
Page 288 - The Statistical Society will consider it to be the first and most essential rule of its conduct to exclude carefully all opinions from its transactions and publications, — to confine its attention rigorously to facts, — and, as far as it may be found possible, to facts which can be stated numerically and arranged in tables.
Page 35 - In order to carry into effect the second object of the Institution, namely, TEACHING THE APPLICATION OF SCIENCE to the USEFUL PURPOSES OF LIFE, a lecture-room will be fitted up for philosophical lectures and experiments ; and a complete LABORATORY AND PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS, with the necessary instruments, will be provided for making chemical and other philosophical experiments.
Page 29 - Rode into the' beginning of my Lord Chancellor's new house,1 near St. James's : which common people have already called Dunkirke-house, from their opinion of his having a good bribe for the selling of that towne. And very noble I believe it will be.
Page 91 - ... an Institution, and the useful results it was capable of yielding, he accepted the proffered chair without hesitation, and was formally installed on the 21st March following. Telford's name gave an impulse to the progress of the Society, which grew rapidly in importance under his fostering care, until, on the 3rd of June, 1828, it received a Charter of Incorporation under the Great Seal, by the title of THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS.
Page 232 - Why has no serious trial yet been made of the qualifications of so diligent a courier? And if he should be proved competent to the task, why should not our kings hold councils at Brighton with their ministers in London? Why should not our government govern at Portsmouth almost as promptly as in Downing Street?
Page 33 - proposal for forming in London by private subscription an establishment for feeding the poor, and giving them useful employment, and also for furnishing food at a cheap rate to others who may stand in need of such assistance, connected with an institution for introducing and bringing forward into general use new inventions and improvements, particularly such as relate to the management of heat and the saving of fuel, and to various other mechanical contrivances by which domestic comfort and economy...
Page 13 - There is one thing more, that I ought to inform you of, viz. that Mr. Hooke has some pretensions upon the invention of the rule of decrease of gravity being reciprocally as the squares of the distances from the centre. He says you had the notion from him, though he owns the demonstration of the curves generated thereby to be wholly your own.