Lectures

Examples

• Coleridge said, I attend Davy’s lectures to increase my stock of metaphors, and there were many others who went to hear the young chemist for other reasons than a liking for science. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• She would just give me something to do, to rectify--a theme for my tutor lectures. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• True, when he was an undergraduate at Yale he had been much interested in Professor Day’s lectures on electricity, and had written long letters home in regard to them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Six weeks after he arrived he began his first course of lectures, taking for his subject the history of galvanism, and the various methods of accumulating galvanic influence. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• You have degraded what should have been a course of lectures into a series of tales. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Krempe had given me concerning the lectures. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• You know, as well as I do, no young people have circus masters, or keep circuses in cabinets, or attend lectures about circuses. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• These lectures proved remarkably popular, and for ten years he repeated them at the meetings of the Board of Agriculture. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He must have made, therefore, by each course of lectures, a thousand minae, or ? 3335:6:8. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Jackson, of Boston, who had been attending certain lectures on electricity in Paris, and an American artist named Samuel Finley Breese Morse. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• After the lectures you have attended, and the experiments you have seen! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• These lectures met with success, and he used the money made by them in developing his pistol, which was in a shape to patent by 1835. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Are you going to deliver lectures all the way home? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• But those privileges can be obtained only by attending the lectures of the public teachers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• There have come down to us notes of his lectures on anatomy delivered first in 1616. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• To this end he visited tan-yards and farmers, and in 1802 began to deliver a course of lectures on The Connection of Chemistry with Vegetable Physiology. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• In addition to his lectures Davy worked hard in the well-stocked laboratory of the Institution, where he was supplied with a corps of capable assistants. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It goes farther than a whole course of lectures on Honesty is the Best Policy--life diluted into words. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• He prepared his lectures with the greatest care, and he delivered them with that attention to dramatic effect which is instinctive in all really great speakers. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• His London lectures grew continually more popular. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Some accident prevented my attending these lectures until the course was nearly finished. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The substance of some lectures in defense of Christianity, in courses endowed by the will of Robert Boyle, made Franklin a Deist. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• My father expressed a wish that I should attend a course of lectures upon natural philosophy, to which I cheerfully consented. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Some books against Deism fell into my hands; they were said to be the substance of the sermons which had been preached at Boyle's Lectures. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The Art Scientifically Commenced with Sir Humphry Davy's Lectures on Soils and Plants, 1802-1812. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Professor Faraday mentioned, in one of his lectures, the extraordinary appearance which a man, who was jumping over a stile, presented when seen by lightning on a dark night. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• There are some [See Dr. Barrow's mathematical lectures. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.

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