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" Murdoch, and Christie; nor need we have any hesitation in adding, that within the last fifteen years not a single discovery or invention, of prominent interest, has been made in our colleges, and that there is not one man in all the eight universities... "
A History of European Thought in the Nineteenth Century - Page 241
by John Theodore Merz - 1907
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 43

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1830 - 620 pages
...among the living, to mention the names of Dalton, Ivory, Brown, Hatchett, Pond, Herschel, Babbage, Henry, Barlow, South, Faraday, Murdoch, and Christie;...known to be engaged in any train of original research. Since our scientific men then can fmd no asylum in our universities, and are utterly abandoned by our...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 43

1830 - 606 pages
...among the living, to mention the names of Dalton, Ivory, Brownj Hatchett, Pond, Herschel, Babbage, Henry, Barlow, South, Faraday, Murdoch, and Christie;...known to be engaged in any train of original research. Since our scientific men then can find no asylum in our universities, and are utterly abandoned by...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 43

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1830 - 622 pages
...the names of Dalton, Ivory, Brown, Hatchett, Pond, Herschel, Babbage, Henry, Barlow, South, T'araday, Murdoch, and Christie; nor need we have any hesitation...known to be engaged in any train of original research. Since our scientific men then can find no asylum in our universities, and are utterly abandoned by...
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Quarterly Register and Journal of the American Education Society, Volumes 3-4

1831 - 716 pages
...Henry, Barlow, South, Faraday, Murdock, and Christie ; nor need we have any hesitation in lidding, that within the last fifteen years not a single discovery...to be engaged in any train of original research."! One of the principal reasons of the languishing state of science is the want of patronage. Scientific...
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An Introduction to the Atomic Theory: Comprising a Sketch of the Opinions ...

Charles Daubeny - 1831 - 226 pages
...the decline of science, " that " within the last fifteen years not a single discovery or inven" tion, of prominent interest, has been made in our colleges,...to be engaged in any train of " original research ;" he must surely have forgotten that Mr. Herschel, whom he so justly commends, was but lately a fellow...
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The Polar star, being a continuation of 'The Extractor', of ..., Volume 6

1831 - 444 pages
...last fifteen years not a single discovery or invention, of prominent interest, has been made in onr colleges, and that there is not one man in all the...Great Britain who is at present known to be engaged iu any train of original research. Since our scientific men then can find no asylum in onr universities,...
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The Quarterly Register, Volume 4

1832 - 372 pages
...of Dalton, Ivory, Brown, Hatchett, Pond, Herschell, Babbage, Henry, Barlow, South, Faraday, Murdock, and Christie ; nor need we have any hesitation in...known to be engaged in any train of original research. "f One of the principal reasons of the languishing state of science is the want of patronage. Scientific...
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The American Quarterly Register, Volume 4

1832 - 370 pages
...of Dalton, Ivory, Brown, Hatchett, Pond, Herschell, Babbage, Henry, Barlow, South, Faraday, Murdock, and Christie ; nor need we have any hesitation in...to be engaged in any train of original research."! One of the principal reasons of the languishing state of science is the want of patronage. Scientific...
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A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural History

William Swainson - 1834 - 476 pages
...on it the dignity, of a science, been lost sight of, that there is not one man either in or out of the eight universities of Great Britain, who is at present known to be engaged in any train of philosophic research. The two or, perhaps, three naturalists*, who, during the last fifteen years,...
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The Miscellaneous Writings: Literary, Critical, Juridical, and Political of ...

Joseph Story - 1835 - 558 pages
...most popular journals of our day has lately declared, in a bold and peremptory tone, that it had not " any hesitation in adding, that, within the last fifteen...to be engaged in any train of original research." * Without yielding to the truth of this unqualified remark, it may be justly stated, that, if there...
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