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Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12: Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists
Autor: Hubbard, Elbert
Nakladatelství:
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ISBN: 9781443232333
Původní cena:
1623 Kč
Vaše cena:
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Excerpt: Elbert Hubbard Memorial Edition Printed and made into a Book by The Roycrofters, who are in East Aurora, Erie County, New York Wm. H. Wise Co. New York Copyright, 1916, By The Roycrofters [Pg 5] Little Journeys To the Homes of Great Scientists CONTENTS SIR ISAAC NEWTON GALILEO COPERNICUS HUMBOLDT WILLIAM HERSCHEL CHARLES DARWIN HAECKEL LINNUS THOMAS H. HUXLEY JOHN TYNDALL ALFRED R. WALLACE JOHN FISKE [Pg 7][Pg 6] [Pg 9][Pg 8] [Pg 10] SIR ISAAC NEWTON When you come into any fresh company, observe their humours. Suit your own carriage thereto, by which insinuation you will make their converse more free and open. Let your discourse be more in querys and doubtings than peremptory assertions or disputings, it being the designe of travelers to learne, not to teach. Besides, it will persuade your acquaintance that you have the greater esteem of them, and soe make them more ready to communicate what they know to you; whereas nothing sooner occasions disrespect and quarrels than peremptorinesse. You will find little or no advantage in seeming wiser, or much more ignorant than your company. Seldom discommend anything though never so bad, or doe it but moderately, lest you bee unexpectedly forced to an unhansom retraction. It is safer to commend any thing more than is due, than to discommend a thing soe much as it deserves; for commendations meet not soe often with oppositions, or, at least, are not usually soe ill resented by men that think otherwise, as discommendations; and you will insinuate into men's favour by nothing sooner than seeming to approve and commend what they like; but beware of doing it by a comparison. Sir Isaac Newton to one of his pupils [Pg 11] SIR ISAAC NEWTON n honest farmer, neither rich nor poor, was Isaac Newton. He was married to Harriet Ayscough in February, Sixteen Hundred Forty-two. Both were strong, intelligent and full of hope. Neither had any education to speak of; they belonged to England's middle classthat oft-despised and...Hodnocení uživatelů:
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