 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 312 pages
...there who taught either mathematics or astronomy : for nothing would serve me but to be a doctor. At the end of the second year I left Edinburgh, and went...— But, to my mortification, I soon found that all :ny medical theories and study were of little use in practice. And then, finding that very few paid... | |
 | James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1839 - 554 pages
...there who taught either mathematics or astronomy : for nothing would serve me but to be a Doctor. At the end of the second year I left Edinburgh, and went...country ; and I carried a good deal of medicines, plaisters, &c. thither. — But, to my mortification, I soon found that all my medical theories and... | |
 | William O. Blake - Biography - 1856 - 1124 pages
...there who taught either mathematics or astronomy, for nothing would serve me but to be a doctor. 'At the end of the second year I left Edinburgh, and went...and I carried a good deal of medicines, plasters, etc., thither ; but to my mortification, I soon found that all my medical theories and study were of... | |
 | W. O. Blake - Biography - 1856 - 1016 pages
...mathematics or astronomy, for nothing would serve me but to be a doctor. 'At the end of the second year 1 left Edinburgh, and went to see my father, thinking...and I carried a good deal of medicines, plasters, etc., thither ; but to my mortification, I soon found that all my medical theories and study were of... | |
 | Education - 1861 - 552 pages
...there who taught either mathematics or astronomy ; for nothing would serve me but to be a doctor. At the end of the second year I left Edinburgh, and went...and I carried a good deal of medicines, plasters, pills, &c., thither; but to my mortification, I soon found that all my medical theories and study were... | |
 | James Ferguson, Ebenezer Henderson - Astronomers - 1867 - 534 pages
...Edinburgh Students' Guide, pp. 32, 33, 63, 64. Thus it was Professors Mouro and Rutherford who hud given such an impetus to the studies of AnaAt the...tolerably well qualified to be a physician in that ptrt of the country, and I carricd a good deal of medicines, plasters, &c., thither ; but to my mortification... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1871 - 276 pages
...there who taught either mathematics or astronomy, for nothing would serve me but to be a doctor. ' At the end of the second year, I left Edinburgh, and went to see rny father, thinking myself tolerably well qualified to be a physician in that part of the country,... | |
 | James Frederick Skinner Gordon - Banffshire (Scotland) - 1880 - 488 pages
...there who taught either Mathematics or Astronomy : for nothing would serve me but to be a Doctor. At the end of the second year I left Edinburgh, and went...mortification, I soon found that all my Medical theories * Lady Jane Douglas died on the 22nd Nov., 1753, aet. 57, and was Buried beside her mother in Holyrood.... | |
 | English literature - 1774 - 760 pages
...left Edinburgb, and went to fee my father, thinking myfelf tolerably well qualified to be a pliyfician in that part of the country ; and I carried a good deal of medicines, plaifters, &c. thither.— But, to my mortification, 1 1bon found, that all my medic.il theories ,and... | |
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... and conversing with gentlemen on these subjects ; which, for that time, put all thoughts of astronomy out of my mind, and I had no inclination to become acquainted with any one there who taught either mathematics or astronomy : for nothing would serve... 