 | 1829 - 642 páginas
...should, many years since, have possessed the conviction which I now enjoy, and not bewail that, in 1 797, my presumptuous ignorance had shut in my own face...teach. Nine-tenths who may read will laugh at this, as 1 did at my friend at Rotterdam. Let them do so ; but, while they laugh, let them learn, and not, thirty... | |
 | 1829 - 576 páginas
...should, many years since, have possessed the conviction which I now enjoy, and not hewail that, in l797, my presumptuous ignorance had shut in my own face...as I did at my friend at Rotterdam. Let them do so ; hut, while they laugh, let them learn, and not, thirty years afterwards, have to lament that so short... | |
 | John Read (maker to the army.) - 1829 - 590 páginas
...that told them truths, which to me seemed more marvellous than all the other wonders of creation, 1 should, many years since, have possessed the conviction...man than all that chemistry and astronomy can teach. Nine tenths who may read will laugh at this, as I did at my friend at Rotterdam. Let them do so; but,... | |
 | J. Baron DU POTET DE SENNEVOY, Jules Dupotet - 1838 - 418 páginas
...phenomena as extraordinary as any recounted in Germany or France." "I was myself an unbeliever," he adds, " until I was undeceived by my own experiments ; but...chemistry and astronomy can teach. Nine-tenths who will read may laugh at this, as I did at my friend at Rotterdam; let them do so, but while they laugh,... | |
 | Jules baron Du Potet de Sennevoy - 1838 - 412 páginas
...phenomena as extraordinary as any recounted in Germany or France." "I was myself an unbeliever," he adds, " until I was undeceived by my own experiments; but...chemistry and astronomy can teach. Nine-tenths who will read may laugh at this, as I did at my friend at Rotterdam; let them do so, but while they laugh,... | |
 | 1849 - 444 páginas
...Zoist, at his having ridiculed mesmerism thirty years before.* " Presumptuous ignorance had shut in his own face the door of a science more directly interesting...man than all that chemistry and astronomy can teach. * " ' Whenever animal magnetism was mentioned, I joined,' he says, 'the general tribe of scoffers,... | |
 | 1854 - 464 páginas
...will confess his sorrow, as Mr. Chenevix did, that this — " ' Presumptuous ignorance had shut in his own face the door of a science more directly interesting...that chemistry and astronomy can teach. Nine-tenths,' he continues, ' who may read will laugh at this as I did, in 1797, at my friend in Rotterdam. Let them... | |
 | 1855 - 1102 páginas
...parties concerned was impossible.' " " 'Presumptuous ignorance had shut in my own face the door of. science more directly interesting to man than all...chemistry and astronomy can teach.' 'Nine-tenths,' he continues, 'who may read will laugh at this, as I did, in 1797, at my friend in Rotterdam. Let them... | |
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I was myself an unbeliever," he adds, " until I was undeceived by my own experiments ; but had I sooner taken this plain and rational road to knowledge, instead of thinking all men mad who trusted to their eyes that told them truths which to me seemed... 