. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America. With biographies. mind was full oflofty thoughts, sometimes of the greatCreator, and sometimes of the laws bywhich He sees meet to govern the shall always connect the sight of thehues of a brilliant sunset with him; andespecially he will be present to mymind while I watch the fading of thetints into the sombre gray of night. Heloved to have us with him as he stoodor sauntered on some open spot, andspoke his thoughts, perhaps in the wordsof Grays Elegy, which he retainedin memory clearly, long after manyother things had
. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America. With biographies. mind was full oflofty thoughts, sometimes of the greatCreator, and sometimes of the laws bywhich He sees meet to govern the shall always connect the sight of thehues of a brilliant sunset with him; andespecially he will be present to mymind while I watch the fading of thetints into the sombre gray of night. Heloved to have us with him as he stoodor sauntered on some open spot, andspoke his thoughts, perhaps in the wordsof Grays Elegy, which he retainedin memory clearly, long after manyother things had faded quite , as darkness stole on, his compan-ions would gradually turn indoors,while he was well pleased to be leftto solitary communing with his ownthoughts. On the 25th of August,1867, Faraday passed quietly awayfrom life, while sitting in his chair inhis study. In accordance with hiswishes, tlie funeral was very v;as buried in the cemetery at High-gate, where a stone, with only the in-sci-iption of his name, the date of hisIjirtli and death, marks the lAJA
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