 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1831 - 690 str.
...perhaps owe to these circumstances the little talents I have, and their peculiar application. What I am I have made myself. I say this 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 - 598 str.
...owe to these circumstances the little talents I have, and their peculiar application; — what I am I have made myself — I say this 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... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 582 str.
...owe to these circumstances the little talents I have, and their peculiar application; — what I am I have made myself — I say this 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 - 504 str.
...to these circumstances the little talents that I have, and their peculiar application : what I am, I have made myself. I say this 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 - 482 str.
...to these circumstances the little talents that 1 have, and their peculiar application : what I am, I have made myself. I say this 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 - 508 str.
...owe to these circumstances the little talents that I have, and their peculiar application. What I am I have made myself; I say this 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 - 652 str.
...Mr. Coryton's school. I perhaps owe to these circumstances the little talents that I have, and (heir peculiar application. What lam I have made myself;...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 - 310 str.
...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 - 324 str.
...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... | |
 | Cecilia Lucy Brightwell - 1859 - 296 str.
...owe to these circumstances the little talents that I have, and their peculiar application. What 1 am, I have made myself. I say this without vanity, and in pure simplicity of heart." Out of school he was very popular ; one great cause of which was his powers of diverting his comrades... | |
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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... 
