 | 1836 - 740 str.
...shows how much he felt the power that was within him. " I have neither riches, nor power, nor hirth, to recommend me. Yet, if I live, I trust I shall not...to mankind, and to my friends, than if I had been horn with these advantages." Dr. Davy gives another passage, written by him at the same time, which... | |
 | 1837 - 728 str.
...which his great powers raised him. In one of his note- books he has thus ponrtraycd his own feeling. " I have neither riches, nor power, nor birth, to recommend...friends, than if I had been born with these advantages. I gradually became conscious of my powers by comparing them with those of others. That solitary enthusiasm,... | |
 | Sir Humphry Davy - 1839 - 508 str.
...and without apprehension of question. , I have found in his note-books kept during this period : — "I have neither riches, nor power, nor birth to recommend...than if I had been born with these advantages." And this early sentiment never forsook him : even in his last days he had a feeling of the same kind, looking... | |
 | Anne Pratt - 1841 - 270 str.
...the papers written at this period by young Davy will exhibit something of his character. He says, " I have neither riches, nor power, nor birth, to recommend...friends, than if I had been born with these advantages." A noble wish, which this great man lived fully to accomplish. It is not the intention of this narrative... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1845 - 618 str.
...propitious breeze behind and no bounding prospect before him, he had written in his solitary notebook ' I have neither riches, nor power, nor birth to recommend...friends than if I had been born with these advantages.' Accordingly, during the two years he «pent in the service of the Pneumatic Institution, he labored... | |
 | 1845 - 758 str.
...propitious breeze behind and no bounding prospect before him, he had written in his solitary notebook...'! have neither riches, nor power, nor birth to recommend...friends than if I had been born with these advantages.' Accordingly, during the two years he spent in the service of the Pneumatic Institution, he laboured... | |
 | Samuel Brown - 1858 - 382 str.
...breeze behind, and no bounding prospect before him, he had written in his solitary note-book — ' I have neither riches, nor power, nor birth, to recommend...friends than if I had been born with these advantages.' Accordingly, during the two years he spent in the service of the Pneumatic Institution, he laboured... | |
 | Samuel Brown - 1858 - 386 str.
...propitious breeze behind, and no bounding prospect before him, he had written in his solitary note-book—' I have neither riches, nor power, nor birth, to recommend...friends than if I had been born with these advantages.' Accordingly, during the two years he spent in the service of the Pneumatic Institution, he laboured... | |
 | 1858 - 148 str.
...himself. In fact, in one of his note-books that he kept about this time, we find these words: — " I have neither riches, nor power, nor birth to recommend...mankind and to my friends than if I had been born to these advantages." We shall see that he kept this noble object before him through life. But if Davy... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1859 - 368 str.
...of age, working away in Dr. Beddoes' laboratory at Bristol, were eminently characteristic of him : " I have neither riches, nor power, nor birth, to recommend...trust I shall not be of less service to mankind and my friends, than if I had been born with all these advantages." Davy possessed the capability, as Faraday... | |
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I have neither riches, nor power, nor birth, to recommend me ; yet, if I live, I trust I shall not be of less service to mankind and to my friends than if I had been born with these advantages. 
