 My mother was the most profoundly and sincerely religious woman with whom I was ever intimately acquainted, and my father always entertained and expressed the highest admiration for her mental gifts, to which he attributed whatever talents his children...  The Reminiscences of an Astronomer - Page 3by Simon Newcomb - 1903 - 424 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Astronomy - 1909 - 720 pages
...astronomer. The marriage was a happy one, so far as congeniality of nature and mutual regard could go. "My mother was the most profoundly and sincerely religious...the public, nor will the reader expect more of me." Newcomb's childhood was passed among many intellectual privations, and the world of ten seemed to him... | |
 | George Iles - 1908 - 206 pages
...only a passing fancy, as I heard nothing of it during 57 my childhood. The marriage was in all respect a happy one, so far as congeniality of nature and...possessed. The unfitness of her environment to her constitition is the saddest memory of my childhood. More I do not trust myself to say to the public,... | |
 | George Iles - 1909 - 202 pages
...only a passing fancy, as I heard nothing of it during 57 my childhood. The marriage was in all respect a happy one, so far as congeniality of nature and...possessed. The unfitness of her environment to her constitition is the saddest memory of my childhood. More I do not trust myself to say to the public,... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 852 pages
...was "in all respects a happy one, so far as congeniality of nature and mutual regard could go." . . . "My mother was the most profoundly and sincerely religious...whatever talents his children might have possessed. The unfltness of her environment to her constitution is the saddest memory of my childhood. More I do not... | |
 | David Starr Jordan - Science - 1910 - 528 pages
...mother, Newcomb wrote: "She was the most profoundly and sincerely religious woman with whom I was ever acquainted, and my father always entertained and expressed...whatever talents his children might have possessed." Her strength was unequal to her surroundings, and she died at the early age of thirty-seven years.... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1911 - 712 pages
...her name — Emily Prince. He cultivated her acquaintance, paid his addresses, and was accepted." " My mother was the most profoundly and sincerely religious...the public, nor will the reader expect more of me." His early years were passed amid social conditions of the utmost simplicity. " The women sheared the... | |
 | National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) - Scientists - 1924 - 240 pages
...citizen of the Province. John Newcomb always "expressed the highest admiration for Emily Newcomb's mental gifts, to which he attributed whatever talents his children might have possessed." Simon Newcomb, the astronomer, was born on March 12, 1835, at Wallace, on the north coast of Nova Scotia.... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1911 - 704 pages
...her name — Emily Prince. He cultivated her acquaintance, paid his addresses, and was accepted." " My mother was the most profoundly and sincerely religious...the public, nor will the reader expect more of me." His early years were passed amid social conditions of the utmost simplicity. "" The women sheared the... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1909 - 1088 pages
...was " in all respects a happy one, so far as congeniality of nature and mutual regard could go." ..." My mother was the most profoundly and sincerely religious...the public, nor will the reader expect more of me." How Newcomb's early years were passed may perhaps be conjectured from the fact that the autobiographical... | |
 | Science - 1924 - 232 pages
...citizen of the Province. John Newcomb always "expressed the highest admiration for Emily Newcomb's mental gifts, to which he attributed whatever talents his children might have possessed." Simon Newcomb, the astronomer, was born on March 12, 1835, at Wallace, on the north coast of Nova Scotia.... | |
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