A History of the Royal Society, with Memoris of the Presidents, Bind 1J. W. Parker, 1848 - 527 sider |
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... Sloane , & c . To these it became , of course , important to refer ; and such use has been made of them as was necessary for the purposes of this work . The State - Paper Office , the Archives of the Lord Chamberlain's Office , and the ...
... Sloane , & c . To these it became , of course , important to refer ; and such use has been made of them as was necessary for the purposes of this work . The State - Paper Office , the Archives of the Lord Chamberlain's Office , and the ...
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... Sloane - Expelled the Council - Institutes legal proceedings - Is defeated - Resignation of Mr. Montague - Election of Lord Somers as President Page 321 CHAPTER XIII . Memoir of Lord Somers - Committee appointed to wait upon him ...
... Sloane - Expelled the Council - Institutes legal proceedings - Is defeated - Resignation of Mr. Montague - Election of Lord Somers as President Page 321 CHAPTER XIII . Memoir of Lord Somers - Committee appointed to wait upon him ...
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... Sloane elected Pre- sident - Memoir of him - Proposes an Address to George II.- His Ma- jesty becomes the Patron of ... Sloane - Pecuniary Embarrassment of the Society - Sir Hans Sloane resigns - Thanks of Society given to him - His ...
... Sloane elected Pre- sident - Memoir of him - Proposes an Address to George II.- His Ma- jesty becomes the Patron of ... Sloane - Pecuniary Embarrassment of the Society - Sir Hans Sloane resigns - Thanks of Society given to him - His ...
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... Sloane , the Mace was only put on the table at the Society's Meetings when the Pre- sident was in the chair . The first official act of Sir Hans Sloane , in his capacity of President , was to order the Mace to be used when a Vice ...
... Sloane , the Mace was only put on the table at the Society's Meetings when the Pre- sident was in the chair . The first official act of Sir Hans Sloane , in his capacity of President , was to order the Mace to be used when a Vice ...
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... Sloane , who gave him many curiosities for his Museum : this was situated in Cheyne Walk , Chelsea , where the site is still occupied by an Hotel . The catalogue ran : - " A Catalogue of Rarities . To be seen at Don Salter's Coffee ...
... Sloane , who gave him many curiosities for his Museum : this was situated in Cheyne Walk , Chelsea , where the site is still occupied by an Hotel . The catalogue ran : - " A Catalogue of Rarities . To be seen at Don Salter's Coffee ...
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Side 141 - The business and design of the Royal Society is — To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanick practises, Engynes and Inventions by Experiments — (not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysics, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick or Logick...
Side 299 - Piscium, had exhausted the Society's finances to such an extent that the salaries even of its officers were in arrears. Accordingly, at the Council meeting of the 2nd of June, it was ordered that " Mr. Newton's book be printed, and that Mr. Halley undertake the business of looking after it, and printing it at his own charge, which he engaged to do.
Side 362 - Newton came from chapel, and had seen what was done, every one thought he would have run mad, he was so troubled thereat that he was not himself for a month after.
Side 55 - The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of things'; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Side 520 - Essays on some of the Dangers to Christian Faith which may arise from the Teaching or the Conduct of its Professors.
Side 121 - And like th' old Hebrews many years did stray In deserts but of small extent, Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last. The barren wilderness he past, Did on the very border stand Of the blest promis'd land, And from the mountain's top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and shew'd us it. But life did never to one man allow Time to discover worlds, and conquer too ; Nor can so short a line sufficient be To fathom the vast depths of nature's sea : The work he did we ought t...
Side 29 - Ireland, though not so constantly, at the lodgings of Dr. Wilkins, then warden of Wadham College; and after his removal to Trinity College in Cambridge, at the lodgings of the honourable Mr. Robert Boyle, then resident for divers years in Oxford.
Side 82 - The success was, that within five weeks space all the warts went quite away : and that wart which I had so long endured, for company. But at the rest I did little marvel, because they came in a short time, and might go away in a short time again : but the going away of that which had stayed so long doth yet stick with me.
Side 56 - THIS fable my lord devised, to the end that he might exhibit therein a model or description of a college, instituted for the interpreting of nature, and the producing of great and marvellous works, for the benefit of men ; under the name of Solomon's House, or the College of the Six Days
Side 301 - The proof you sent me I like very well. I designed the whole to consist of three books ; the second was finished last summer, being short, and only wants transcribing, and drawing the cuts fairly. Some new propositions I have since thought on, which I can as well let alone. The third wants the theory of comets.