 | John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 598 pages
...thousand a-year from it.' The reply of this great and noble-minded man was, — ' No, my good friend, I never thought of such a thing ; my sole object was to serve the cause of humanity ; and, if I have succeeded, I am amply rewarded in the gratifying reflection of having done so.' I... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - Chemistry - 1831 - 582 pages
...thousand a-year from it.' The reply of this great and noble-minded man was, — ' No, my good friend, I never thought of such a thing ; my sole object was to serve the cause of humanity ; and, if I have succeeded, I am amply rewarded in the gratifying reflection of having done so.' I... | |
 | John Davy - 1836 - 436 pages
...thousand a year from it.' The reply of this great and noble-minded man was — ' No ! my good friend, I never thought of such a thing : my sole object was to serve the cause of humanity ; and if I have succeeded, I am amply rewarded in the gratifying reflection of having done so.' I expostulated... | |
 | Medicine - 1840 - 648 pages
...thousand a-year from it.' The reply of this great and nobleminded man was — ' No ! my good friend, I never thought of such a thing : my sole object was to serve the cause of humanity; and if I have succeeded, I am amply rewarded in the gratifying reflection of having done so.' I expostulated... | |
 | Medicine - 1840 - 660 pages
...thousand a-year from it.' The reply of this great and nobleminded man was — ' No ! my good friend, I never thought of such a thing : my sole object was to serve the cause of humanity; and if I have succeeded, I am amply rewarded in the gratifying reflection of having done so.' I expostulated... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - Biography - 1853 - 360 pages
...ten thousand a-year from it.' The reply of this great and noble-minded man was, ' No, my good friend, I never thought of such a thing ; my sole object was to serve the cause of humanity : and if I have succeeded, I am amply rewarded in the gratification of having done so.' ' More wealth,'... | |
 | American cyclopaedia - 1859 - 790 pages
...; urged by a friend to take out a patent for his invention, he nobly replied : "No, my good friend, I never thought of such a thing ; my sole object was to serve the cause of humanity ; and if I have succeeded, I am amply rewarded in the gratifying reflection of having done so." In... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1859 - 792 pages
...; urged by a friend to take out a patent for bis invention, he nobly replied : "No, my good friend, I never thought of such a thing ; my sole object was to serve the cause of humanity ; and if I have succeeded, I am amply rewarded in the gratifying reflection of having done so." In... | |
 | James Hamilton Fyfe - 1863 - 270 pages
...ever did." When urged by his friends to take out a patent for the invention, he replied, — " No, I never thought of such a thing. My sole object was to serve the cause of humanity, and if I have succeeded, I am amply rewarded by the gratifying reflection of having done so." The honours... | |
 | Charles Adams - 1870 - 322 pages
...avail himself of a patent for this invention, he responded in these noble words : " No, my good friend, I never thought of such a thing ; my sole object was to serve the cause of humanity, and if I have succeeded, I nm amply rewarded in the gratifying reflection of having done so." Davy... | |
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No ! my good friend, I never thought of such a thing : my sole object was to serve the cause of humanity; and if I have succeeded, I am amply rewarded in the gratifying reflection of having done so. 
