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In 1772 he published his first important scientific tract, 'a small pamphlet on the method of impregnating water with fixed air. For this he received the Copley medal from the Royal Society. On the first of August, 1774, he discovered oxygen. Nobody in Leeds troubled particularly to inquire what this dissenting minister was about with his vials and tubes, his mice and his plants.
A certain lady looking like her had been seen at a small hotel on the Fifth Avenue, but she had been with a gentleman, and their names were registered as Mr. and Mrs. Copley Hutchinson, of Boston. Carey wondered whether she could have left the city. Several European steamers had sailed or were to sail that day, and he spent an hour or two at the docks searching them.
Rollo and his party rambled about the Pantheon, looking at the statues, and paintings, and chapels, and observing the groups of pilgrims and of visitors that were continually coming and going, for nearly an hour. By this time the shower had entirely passed away, and the sun having come out bright, they all walked home. While Rollo was at Rome, he made the acquaintance of a boy named Copley.
It represented a young and spirituelle woman, in the costume, so elegant in material and formal in mode, which Copley has immortalized; in this instance, however, there was a French look about the coiffure and robe.
He accompanied Allston to Europe in 1811, and entered the studio of Benjamin West, who was then at the zenith of his reputation. The friendship of West, with his own introductions and agreeable personality, enabled him to move in good society, to which he was always partial. William Wilberforce, Zachary Macaulay, father of the historian, Coleridge, and Copley, were among his acquaintances.
Copley Fielding could draw mountains as nobody else but Turner could, in water-colour; he had enough mystery and poetry to interest the younger Ruskin, and enough resemblance to ordinary views of Nature to please the elder.
I can talk to the pitcher if I choose, and I've got a right to have a little conversation with myself." "Don't pay any attention to him, Springer," warned Roger; "that's his trick." Phil also missed the first ball delivered by Sanger. "This fellow thinks he can pitch," cried Copley. "He's had a dream." "There he goes, Mr. Umpire," cried Roger. "He's talking to the batter again."
In the same year, Priestley communicated the extensive series of observations which his industry and ingenuity had accumulated, in the course of four years, to the Royal Society, under the title of "Observations on Different Kinds of Air" a memoir which was justly regarded of so much merit and importance, that the Society at once conferred upon the author the highest distinction in their power, by awarding him the Copley Medal.
On the very first ball handed up to the Oakdale shortstop, Grant, having got a start, raced down the line to second, slid spikes first, and was declared safe, Copley failing to get the ball to Roberts in time for a put-out. But the Texan did not stop there. With Sanger's next movement of his regular delivery, Rodney, having got a lead behind the pitcher's back, went darting toward third.
George III. Morse begins his studies. Introduced to West. Enthusiasms. Smuggling and lotteries. English appreciation of art. Copley. Friendliness of West. Elgin marbles. Cries of London. Custom in knocking. Witnesses balloon ascension. Crowds. Vauxhall Gardens. St. Bartholomew's Fair. Efforts to be economical. Signs of war. Mails delayed. Admitted to Royal Academy. Disturbances, riots, and murders
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