The Edinburgh Journal of Science, 1826, Vol. 5: Exhibiting a View of the Progress of Discovery in Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Mineralogy, Geology, ... Navigation, Statistics, Antiquities - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Edinburgh Journal of Science, 1826, Vol. 5: Exhibiting a View of the Progress of Discovery in Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Mineralogy, Geology, Botany, Zoology, Comparative Anatomy, Practical Mechanics, Geography, Navigation, Statistics, Antiquities, and the Fine and Useful Arts; April-October

During these convulsions, M. Pictet lost the whole of his Maine, and, by a series of distressing events, his income was reduced to the small honorarium of his professorship. This luhexpectcd change of circumstances he sustained with the fortitude of a Christian. He introduced into his family the most severe economy, and attempted, as he then jocularly observed, to resolve the problem, of, the least expence at which a man could live.

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