 | American periodicals - 1872 - 862 pages
...suppose that I was a very deeper thinker, or was marked as a precocious person. I was ยป very lively, imaginative person, and could believe in the ' Arabian Nights ' as easily as in the ' EncyclopiB lia; ' but facts were important to me, and saved me. I could trust a fict, ant always... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1868 - 210 pages
...not suppose that I was a very deep thinker, or was marked as a precocious person. I was a very lively imaginative person, and could believe in the " Arabian Nights " as easily as in the " Encyclopaedia." But facts were important to me, and saved me. I could trust a fact, and always cross-examined... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1869 - 658 pages
...suppose that I was a very deep thinker, or was marked as a precocious person. I was a very lively, imaginative person, and could believe in the Arabian Nights as easily as in the Encyclopaedia ; but facts were important to me and saved me. I could trust a fact, and always cross-examined... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1869 - 636 pages
...suppose that I was a very deep thinker, or was marked as a precocious person. I was a very lively, imaginative person, and could believe in the ' Arabian Nights' as easily as in the ' Encyclopaedia.' But facts were important to me, and saved me. I could trust a fact, and always crossexamined... | |
 | Josiah Miller - Bible - 1870 - 272 pages
...Faraday, having said that as a youth he was not a deep thinker, but lively and imaginative, adds, ' But facts were important to me, and saved me. I could...assertion. So when I questioned Mrs. Marcet's book (he refers to her " Conversations on Chemistry") by such little experiments as I could find means to... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Great Britain - 1870 - 552 pages
...not suppose that I was a very deep thinker, or was marked as a precocious person. I was a very lively imaginative person, and could believe in the "Arabian Nights" as easily as in the "Encyclopaedia." But facts were important to me, and saved me. I could trust a fact, and always cross-examined... | |
 | Bence Jones, Michael Faraday - Electromagnetic theory - 1870 - 534 pages
...imaginative person, who could believe in the " Arabian Nights " as easily as in the " Encyclopaedia," but facts were important to me, and saved me. I could trust a fact.' Over and over again he showed his love of experiments in his writings and lectures : ' Without experiment... | |
 | Bence Jones, Michael Faraday - Electromagnetic theory - 1870 - 522 pages
...suppose that I was a very deep thinker, or was marked as a precocious person. I was a very lively, imaginative person, and could believe in the " Arabian Nights " as easily as in the "Encyclopaedia; " but facts were important to me, and saved me. I could trust a fact, and always cross-examined... | |
 | Richard Quain - 1870 - 172 pages
...not suppose that I was a very deep thinker, or was marked as a precocious person. I was a very lively imaginative person, and could believe in the 'Arabian Nights,' as easily as in the 'Encyclopaedia.' But facts were important to me, and saved me. I could trust a fact, and always cross-examined... | |
 | Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London - Medicine - 1871 - 434 pages
...not suppose that I was a very deep character, or marked as a precocious person. I was a very lively, imaginative person, and could believe in the ' Arabian Nights' as easily as in the ' Encyclopaedia.' But facts were important to me, and saved me. I could trust a fact and always cross-examined... | |
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Do not suppose that I was a very deep thinker, or was marked as a precocious person. I was a very lively, imaginative person, and could believe in the Arabian Nights as easily as in the Encyclopaedia ; but facts were important to me and saved me. 
