 The best blood of England flows in my veins; on my father's side I am a Northumberland, on my mother's I am related to kings, but this avails me not. My name shall live in the memory of man when the titles of the Northumberlands and the Percys are extinct...  The Reminiscences of an Astronomer - Page 199by Simon Newcomb - 1903 - 424 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American literature - 1860 - 620 pages
...Smithson, a natural son, apparently, of Sir Hugh Smithson, afterwards Duke of Northumberland, ambitious to "live in the memory of men when the titles of the Northumberlands and the Pcrcics are extinct or forgotten," left a fortune of about £100,000 "to the United States of America^"... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Education - Education - 1852 - 1004 pages
...writing, that though the best blood of England flows in his veins, this avails him not, for his name would live in the memory of men when the titles of the Northumberlands and the Percies are extinct or forgotten. He was cosmopolitan in his views, and declares that the man of science... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1854 - 284 pages
...writing, that though the best blood of England flows in his veins, this avails him not, for his name would live in the memory of men when the titles of the Northumberlands and the Percies are extinct or forgotten. He was cosmopolitan in his views, and declares that the man of science... | |
 | Edward Edwards - Libraries - 1859 - 1206 pages
...bar sinister '" in his escutcheon ; ambitious of leaving a name tha,t, to uke his own words, "would live in the memory of men when the titles of the Northumberlands and the Percies are extinct or forgotten," yet willing to make his purpose wholly contingent on the birth of... | |
 | Nicolas Trübner - American literature - 1859 - 738 pages
...bar sinister " in his escutcheon ; ambitious of leaving a name that, to use his own words, " would live in the memory of men when the titles of the Northumberlands and the Percies are extinct or forgotten," yet willing to make his purpose wholly contingent on the birth of... | |
 | Edward Edwards - 1859 - 1196 pages
..." bar sinister v in his escutcheon ; ambitious of leaving a name that, to use his own words, "would live in the memory of men when the titles of the Northumberlands and the Percies are extinct or forgotten," yet willing to make his purpose wholly contingent on the birth of... | |
 | English literature - 1859 - 588 pages
...a natural son, apparently, of Sir Hugh Smithson, afterwards Duke of Northumberland, ambitious to " live in the memory of men when the titles of the Northumberlands and the Percies are extinct or forgotten," left a fortune of about L.100,000 "to the United States of America,"... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1898 - 684 pages
...mother's side I am related to kings, but this avails me not. My name shall live in the memory of man when the titles of the Northumberlands and the Percys are extinct and forgotten." Smithson was a student of science, and did some sound scientific work. He was a Fellow of the Royal... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution - Science - 1879 - 1040 pages
...the best blood of England flowed in his veins, yet he said that availed him not, for hi» name would live in the memory of men when the titles of the Northumberlands and Percies were extinct or forgotten. Sir, the language used in the bequest corresponds with what might... | |
 | William Jones Rhees - Biography & Autobiography - 1880 - 282 pages
...my mother's I am related to kings, but this avails me not. My name shall live in the memory of man when the titles of the Northumberlands and the Percys are extinct and forgotten." As Prof. WE Johnson has well observed in speaking of Smithson: '< The man of science is willing to... | |
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