Category: Biographies
"A virtuous household, though exceeding poor! Pure livers were they all, austere and grave, And fearing God; the very children taught Stern self-respect, a reverence for God's word, And an habitual piety." WORDSWORTH.
The year of the Great Exhibition was a busy one for Faraday; he was working in his old accustomed, unremitting manner at his magnetic, and electric, and general experiments, he...
4. CHAPTER IV."A choice that from the passions of the world Withdrew, and fixed me in a still retreat; Sheltered, but not to social duties lost, Secluded, but not buried; and with song Cheeri...
6. CHAPTER VI.By the commencement of the year 1835 we find Michael Faraday, not yet forty-four years of age, generally acknowledged as one of their peers by the leading men of science, not on...
3. CHAPTER III."One rule his life was fashioned to fulfil: That he who tends Truth's shrine, and does the hest Of Science, with a humble, faithful will, The God of Truth and Knowledge serveth...
5. CHAPTER V."If I would strive to bring back times, and try The world's pure gold, and wise simplicity; If I would virtue set as she was young, And hear her speak with one, and her first to...
1. CHAPTER I."A virtuous household, though exceeding poor! Pure livers were they all, austere and grave, And fearing God; the very children taught Stern self-respect, a reverence for God's w...
8. CHAPTER VIII.At various periods of Faraday's life his genial good-nature and kindliness have been brought home to us in different ways. From that early time when he used to take care of his...
9. CHAPTER IX."So that I draw the breath of finer air Station is nought, nor footways laurel-strewn, Nor rivals tightly belted for the race. God speed to them! My place is here or there; My p...
10. CHAPTER X.The Royal Institution, which for so many years was "home" to Michael Faraday, must ever remain intimately associated with his name. It is not a hundred years since it was founde...
2. CHAPTER II.There is a story told of Sir Humphry Davy, that, on being asked on a certain occasion to enumerate what he considered as his greatest discoveries, he named first one thing and t...