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Robert Chambers, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books History~~General A-Biographical-Dictionary-of-Eminent-Scotsmen-in-Four-Vols~~Robert-Chambers General B… More...

Robert Chambers, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books History~~General A-Biographical-Dictionary-of-Eminent-Scotsmen-in-Four-Vols~~Robert-Chambers General Books LLC 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: his work, lo change his dress before coining to the class, and having suggested the propriety of the operatives being allowed to attend without such change, Air Anderson, being apprized of the wish so expressed, at once acceded lo it. His was a niind too strongly bent on mere usefulness, to regard empty form. Vet, as a lecturer, he is allowed to have himself exhibited a surpassing elegance of manner. His style was easy and graceful, his command of language unlimited, and the skill and success with which his manifold experiments were performed, could not be surpassed. He excited the interest, and attracted the attention of his pupils, by the numerous and appropriate anecdotes with which he illustrated and enlivened his lectures. Enthusiastic in his profession, his whole ambition and happiness consisted in making himself useful to mankind, by the dissemination of useful knowledge; and nothing afforded him purer pleasure than hearing that any of his pupils had distinguished themselves in the world. The only distinct work which he published in connection with his favourite science, was a valuable one, entitled, "Institutes of Physics," which appeared in 1766, and went through five editions during the next ten yean. M tlif commencement of those political changes in Prance, which ended in such unhappy results, Mr Anderson, as might have been predicated from his ardently liberal and enlightened character, was among those who sympathized most warmly with the proceedings of the emancipated people. Previous to tiiat period, he h.id prosecuted a taste for the military art, and invented a species of gun, the recoil of which was stopped by the condensation of common air, within the body of the carriage. Having in vain endeavoured to attract the attention of the British government to th...<