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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ments gave to Sir H. Davy so much pleasure, as the invention of the safety-lamp. If we desire to immortalize ourselves, let us then attempt to confer some benefit on our fellow-men. Am. Ed.] CHAPTER III. Advantages of Wealth in the Pursuit of Knowledge: ? Napier. Notwithstanding the honorable reputation which the princes we have named, and others whom we have not room to notice, have acquired by thek devotion to intellectual pursuits, it is to be observed, that science and literature have been much more indebted to the example and patronage, than to the actual performances, of the royal personages who are to be counted among their friends. No great discovery or immortal composition claims a king as its author. When the genius that might have accomplished such, has been found on a throne, it has been otherwise occupied, than with the quiet, but ennobling pleasures of learning and philosophy. And doubtless this is only as it should be. Men have not crowns put upon their heads, that they may write books, or spend their lives in constructing philosophical theories. Every station has its peculiar duties, which must first be attended to, even before the pursuit of knowledge; and those of sovereigns are sufficiently arduous, to make it impossible, when they are fully performed, that this pursuit can be any thing more than the avocation of their leisure. To this extent, only, therefore, it is desirable that they should devote themselves to it. But if so, it cannot be expected that this class of persons should contribute many, or even any, names of first-rate distinction to the history of literature or science. It were not fitting, indeed, that the same individual should have supremacy, at once, in two worlds, so entirely different and unconnected, as that of political dignity and...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781458905130
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 156
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1458905136
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 290 gr


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