 | T. J. Shanks - 1887 - 300 sider
...make it the chief thing. Let us be humble with it when we get it, because it is temporary. In my time in the University of Edinburgh, the greatest figure...Simpson, the discoverer of chloroform. The other day, just before I left Scotland, his successor and nephew, Professor Simpson, was asked by the Librarian... | |
 | Henry Drummond - 1890 - 72 sider
...the country to see the great invention ; now it is superseded, its day is done. And all the boasted science and philosophy of this day will soon be old....the library and pick out the books on his subject tKat were no longer needed. And his reply to the librarian was this : " Take every text-book that is... | |
 | Henry Drummond - 1891 - 40 sider
...make it the chief thing. Let us be humble with it when we get it, because it is temporary. In my time in the University of Edinburgh, the greatest figure...was Sir James Simpson, the discoverer of chloroform. Just before I left Scotland, his successor and nephew, Professor Simpson, was asked by the Librarian... | |
 | Henry Drummond - 1892 - 358 sider
...the country to see the great invention; now it is superseded, its day is done. And all the boasted science and philosophy of this day will soon be old....asked by the librarian of the University to go to the Lbrary and pick out the books on his subject that were no longer needed. And his reply to the librarian... | |
 | Henry Drummond - 1892 - 346 sider
...the country to see the great invention; now it is superseded, its day is done. And all the boasted science and philosophy of this day will soon be old....Edinburgh, the greatest figure in the faculty was Sir Jaines Simpson, the discoverer of chloroform. The other day his successor and nephew, Professor Simpson,... | |
 | Henry Drummond - 1894 - 352 sider
...invention; now it is superseded, its day is done. And all the boasted science and philosophy of this da> will soon be old. But yesterday, in the University...the library and pick out the books on his subject thai were no longer needed. And his reply to the librarian was this: "Take every text-book that is... | |
 | John Marie Keating - 1894 - 1084 sider
...and is " cast as rubbish to the void," Drummond, in one of his charming essays, writes as follows : " But yesterday, in the University of Edinburgh, the greatest figure in the faculty was Sir James Y. Simpson, the discoverer of chloroform. The other day his successor and nephew, Professor Simpson,... | |
 | 1894 - 1324 sider
...But yesterday, in the University of Edinburgh, the greatest figure in the faculty was Sir James Y. Simpson, the discoverer of chloroform. The other day...successor and nephew, Professor Simpson, was asked by die librarian of the University to go to the library and pick out the books on his subject that were... | |
 | Henry Codman Potter - 1898 - 136 sider
...its day is done. And all the boasted science and philosophy of this day will soon be old. In my time, in the university of Edinburgh, the greatest figure...was Sir James Simpson, the discoverer of chloroform. Recently his successor and nephew, Professor Simpson, was asked by the librarian of the University... | |
 | 1906 - 1034 sider
...held before the discovery of the X-rays, radium, and wireless telegraphy? Henry Drummond tells us that but yesterday, in the University of Edinburgh, the...librarian of the University to go to the library and take out the books on this subject that were no longer needed." His reply to the librarian was, "Take... | |
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But yesterday, in the University of Edinburgh, the greatest figure in the faculty was Sir James Simpson, the discoverer of chloroform. The other day his successor and nephew, Professor Simpson, was asked by the librarian of the University to go to the... 
