| 1863 - 444 Seiten
...London, and was anti-Newtonian in philosophy. Professor A. Morgan thus truly characterizes him : " Sir Richard . Phillips had four valuable qualities...himself an uncomfortable life and a ridiculous memory." OLIVER GOLDSMITH. — The statue of Goldsmith lately erected in the court or front of Trinity College,... | |
| 1866 - 394 Seiten
...1824. . A century of original aphorisms on the proximate causes of the phenomena of nature. 1835, 12mo. Sir Richard Phillips had four valuable qualities;...himself an uncomfortable life and a ridiculous memory. Astronomy made plain: or only way the true perpendicular distance of the Sun, Moon, or Stars, from... | |
| Augustus De Morgan - 1872 - 530 Seiten
...1824. A century of original aphorisms on the proximate causes of tho phenomena of nature, 1835, 12mo. Sir Richard Phillips had four valuable qualities ;...himself an uncomfortable life and a ridiculous memory. Astronomy made plain ; or only way the true perpendicular distance of the Sun, Moon, or Stars, from... | |
| Thomas Constable - 1873 - 546 Seiten
...Sir Eichard, that he " had four valuable qualities—honesty, zeal, ability, and courage," but that " he applied them all to teaching matters about which he knew nothing." This is surely too severe an estimate; but the following letters, in which are introduced his Morning's... | |
| 1883 - 396 Seiten
...quacks live on the faith of fools." De Morgan's judgment on these writings is terse and worth quoting : "Sir Richard Phillips had four valuable qualities...himself an uncomfortable life and a ridiculous memory."* The Importance of Educating the Poor, a Sermon by John Evans, to which is added the interesting letter... | |
| William Edward Armytage Axon - 1888 - 336 Seiten
...live on the faith of fools." De Morgan's judgment on these writings is terse and worth quoting : " Sir Richard Phillips had four valuable qualities :...himself an uncomfortable life and a ridiculous memory."* The Phenomena called by the Name of Gravitation proved to be Proximate Effects of the Orbicular Rotary... | |
| Judith Phillips Stanton - 2003 - 876 Seiten
...contempotary described him as having "four valuable qualities: honesty, 2eal, ability, and coutage. He applied them all to teaching matters about which...himself an uncomfortable life and a ridiculous memory" (Biogmphical Dittionary of Living Authors, pp. 1096-97). CS spent the last troubled years of her life... | |
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