The Life And Selections From The Correspondence Of William Whewell Dd PDF Download

Excerpt from The Life and Selections From the Correspondence of William Whewell, D. D., Late Master of Trinity College Combridge In consequence of the pressure of other engagements Mr. Wright has unfortunately found himself unable to fulfil this promise, and I have been deprived, I regret to say, of his co-operation. In the expectation that the materials collected for the Academic Life would form the basis of a separate portion of the work, Mr. Tod hunter has left them untouched. They were beyond the limits of myiown task, which indeed was completed when Mr. Aldis Wright announced his decision. It seemed impossible, however, to allow a memoir of Dr. Whewell to appear in which none but incidental men tion should be made of Trinity, and no account what ever be given of his relation to the University and the College where fifty years of his life were passed, and which were at once the principal field of his life-long labours and the objects of his life-long affection. Therefore, though painfully conscious of my inade quacy for such a task, I felt it my duty to endeavour to interweave with my own portion of the work some notice of these materials. I have been aided in this difficult task by the late Mr. J. L. Hammond of Trinity College, the last surviving executor' of Dr. Whewell Personal reasons, among which no doubt were his failing health and the heavy pressure of official work, made him resolutely decline to undertake the task himself, but he gave me his help whenever it was possible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.