Sir William Ramsay

V. THE HYDRATION OF GUM ARABIC AND GLYCOGEN BY HENRY BOWEN OAKLEY From the Sir

Cultural Translation: A Critical Analysis of William Jones's Translation of Hafez

The humanist mission of translation is believed to be rooted in the universal humane urge to spread knowledge and to eliminate misunderstanding among people as well as to generate a broader space for communication. What is absent from this philanthropist definition is the workings of power and the political agendas that influence the translator's stance and his/her interpretation of the text th...

Chemical Statics and Dynamics

This is one of the text-books of Physical Chemistry edited by Sir Willam Ramsay. It views chemistry from the standpoint of the explanation of its phenomena by the physical laws which govern appreciable weights of substances, and it is shown that they operate equally in the changes which take place between individual mollecules during chemical reaction. It is pleasant to find that sharp distinct...

Elderly Life: Its Characteristics, Needs and Philosophy.

BBOSWELL: Boswell: What I admire in Ramsay is his continuing to be so young. Johnson: Why yes sir, it is to be admired. I value myself upon this, that there is nothing of the old man in my conversation. I am now sixty-eight and I have no more of it than at twenty-eight. Boswell: But sir, would you not wish to know old age? He who is never an old man does not know the whole of human life; for ol...

The League of Mercy

the Grand President of the League, and Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, the Lady President. Consequently, when the Prince came into the garden from Clarence House at four o'clock, the lawns which lie in front of the State apartments were thronged. In the absence abroad of Lord Wolferton, the senior Honorary Secretary, the Prince was received by Sir William Collins and Sir James Harrison, Ho...