 | John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - Страниц: 598
...enjoyed much idleness at Mr. Coryton's school. I perhaps owe to these circumstances the little talents I have, and their peculiar application; — what I...without vanity, and in pure simplicity of heart." His temper during youth is represented as mild and amiable. He never suppressed his feelings, but every... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1831 - Страниц: 690
...enjoyed much idleness at Mr. Coryton's school. I perhaps owe to these circumstances the little talents I have, and their peculiar application. What I am...without vanity, and in pure simplicity of heart.' His father died in 1794, and his mother (who had taken up her residence at Penzance, and entered into... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - Страниц: 582
...enjoyed much idleness at Mr. Coryton's school. I perhaps owe to these circumstances the little talents I have, and their peculiar application; — what I...without vanity, and in pure simplicity of heart." His temper during youth is represented as mild and amiable. He never suppressed his feelings, but every... | |
 | 1833 - Страниц: 308
..." I consider it fortunate," he wrote to a member of his family, " that I was left much to myself as a child, and put upon no particular plan of study,...without vanity, and in pure simplicity of heart." He was soon removed to the school at Truro, where he remained two years, undistinguished except by... | |
 | 1833 - Страниц: 504
..." I consider it fortunate," he wrote to a member of his family, "that I was left much to myself as a child, and put upon no particular plan of study,...without vanity, and in pure simplicity of heart." He was soon removed to the school at Truro, where he remained two years, undistinguished except by... | |
 | 1838 - Страниц: 512
...much idleness at Mr. Coryton's school. I perhaps owe to these circumstances the little talents that 1 have, and their peculiar application : what I am,...without vanity, and in pure simplicity of heart." He was soon removed to the school at Truro, where he remained two years, undistinguished except by... | |
 | Sir Humphry Davy - 1839 - Страниц: 508
...is made a pain ? Yet Dr. Cardew comparatively was a most excellent master.* I wish John may have as good a one. After all, the way in which we are taught...without vanity, and in pure simplicity of heart !" and that it really was 'so said, is evident from the manner in which it is written at the end of the letter,... | |
 | 1840 - Страниц: 652
...owe to these circumstances the little talents that I have, and (heir peculiar application. What lam I have made myself; I say this without vanity, and...habits. " During the early part of his life, to which ho thus refers the formation of the bias of his character, he was more distinguished out of school... | |
 | sir Benjamin Collins Brodie (1st bart.) - 1854 - Страниц: 310
...perhaps, owe to these circumstances the little talents I have, and their peculiar application. What I am I made myself. I say this without vanity, and in pure simplicity of heart." * John Hunter, who, in the department of science, is one of the most remarkable individuals whom this... | |
 | Sir Benjamin Brodie - 1857 - Страниц: 324
...perhaps, owe to these circumstances the little talents I have, and their peculiar application. What I am I made myself. I say this without vanity, and in pure simplicity of heart."* John Hunter, who, in the department of science, is one of the most remarkable individuals whom this... | |
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I was left much to myself when a child, and put upon no particular plan of study, and that I enjoyed much idleness at Mr. Coryton's school. I perhaps owe to these circumstances the little talents that I have, and their peculiar application. What I am... 
