It remains to consider him as a teacher ; and certainly nothing could be more admirable than the manner in which for forty years he performed this useful and dignified office. His style of lecturing was as nearly perfect as can well be conceived ; for... Lives of Philosophers of the Time of George III. - Page 19by Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1855 - 492 pagesFull view - About this book
| Brougham and Vaux - 1845 - 560 pages
...The universal operation of heat, and the agency which it exerts by its absorption and its evolution on the structure of all bodies, renders the discovery...partook largely of the elegance which characterized all he said or did. The publication of his lectures has conveyed an accurate idea of the purely analytical... | |
| Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1845 - 586 pages
...The universal operation of heat, and the agency which it exerts by its absorption and its evolution on the structure of all bodies, renders the discovery...partook largely of the elegance which characterized all he said or did. The publication of his lectures has conveyed an accurate idea of the purely analytical... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1845 - 358 pages
...youth bear fruit in every direction, exalting the power and increasing the comforts of mankind as w ell as extending the bounds of their knowledge and enlarging...partook largely of the elegance which characterized all he said or did. The publication of his lectures has conveyed an accurate idea of the purely analytical... | |
| 1846 - 352 pages
...impression which he produced upon his auditors, is in Lord Brougham's best manner : ' It remains_to consider him as a teacher ; and certainly nothing...partook largely of the elegance which characterized all that he said or did. Nothing could be more suited to the occasion ; it was perfect philosophical calmness... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1855 - 526 pages
...faith the things alone which are faith's : " Admodum salutare, si mente sobria, fidei Uutum dentur qua? fidei sunt." C We have now gone through the whole...partook largely of the elegance which characterized all he said or did. The publication of his lectures has conveyed an accurate idea of the purely analytical... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1855 - 526 pages
...things alone which are faith's: "Admodum salutare, si mente sobria, fidei tantum dentur quse fidei sunk" C We have now gone through the whole of this interesting...partook largely of the elegance which characterized all he said or did. The publication of his lectures has conveyed an accurate idea of the purely analytical... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1871 - 380 pages
...eye-witness of those experiments by which he had formerly made them, once more performed with his own hands. His style of lecturing was as nearly perfect as can...discourse? while it partook largely of the elegance of all he said or did. The publication of his lectures has conveyed an accurate idea of the purely... | |
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