Autobiography of the Late Sir Benjamin C. BrodieLongmans, Green, and Company, 1865 - 187 pages |
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... knowledge of the Greek language was not so far advanced as it is at the present time . He was endowed with a large share of energy and activity ; but looking back at this early period of my life , I cannot doubt that he was a ...
... knowledge of the Greek language was not so far advanced as it is at the present time . He was endowed with a large share of energy and activity ; but looking back at this early period of my life , I cannot doubt that he was a ...
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... knowledge . I read a great deal of Greek and Latin , and still more in other subjects . In mathematics I never soared higher than geo- metry and algebra , but of these I learned enough to obtain a sufficient knowledge of mechanics ...
... knowledge . I read a great deal of Greek and Latin , and still more in other subjects . In mathematics I never soared higher than geo- metry and algebra , but of these I learned enough to obtain a sufficient knowledge of mechanics ...
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... knowledge of chemistry . I knew Lavoisier's ' Elements ' by heart , and fitted up a laboratory with such simple apparatus as with my very li- mited means I was able to make or purchase . I read a great deal of English poetry , and some ...
... knowledge of chemistry . I knew Lavoisier's ' Elements ' by heart , and fitted up a laboratory with such simple apparatus as with my very li- mited means I was able to make or purchase . I read a great deal of English poetry , and some ...
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Sir Benjamin Brodie. but in my father's library , picking up many scraps of knowledge , which I have found to be far from useless since . To those who may take the trouble of looking at these manuscripts here- after , all this may appear ...
Sir Benjamin Brodie. but in my father's library , picking up many scraps of knowledge , which I have found to be far from useless since . To those who may take the trouble of looking at these manuscripts here- after , all this may appear ...
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... knowledge , his integrity , and his accu- racy . My next brother , three years older than myself , as I have already mentioned , was first engaged in the woollen cloth manufactory at Salisbury . This , however , soon became a fail- ing ...
... knowledge , his integrity , and his accu- racy . My next brother , three years older than myself , as I have already mentioned , was first engaged in the woollen cloth manufactory at Salisbury . This , however , soon became a fail- ing ...
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