Henry Englefield

A portrait of Sir Henry Englefield in 1815

Sir Henry Charles Englefield, 7th Baronet (1752 – 21 March 1822) was an English antiquary and scientist.

Quotes

• Although it is not, abstractedly speaking, of importance to know who first made a most valuable experiment, or to what individual the community is indebted for the invention of the most useful machine, yet the sense of mankind has in this, as in several other things, been in direct opposition to frigid reasoning; and we are pleased with a recollection of benefits, and with rendering honour to the memory of those who bestowed them. Were public benefactors to be allowed to pass away like hewers of wood and drawers of water, without commemoration, genius and enterprise would be deprived of their most coveted distinction, and after-times would lose incentives to that emulation which urges us to cherish and practise what has been worthy of commendation or imitation in our forefathers; and to make their works, which may have served for a light and been useful to the age in which they lived, a guide and a spur to ourselves
  • Cited in: Bennet Woodcroft. Brief Biographies of Inventors of Machines for the Manufacture of Textile .... (1863) p. xiv; Highlighted section cited in: Samuel Smiles Industrial biography; iron-workers and tool-makers, (1864) p. 170

• What! the girl I adore by another embraced?
  What! the balm of her breath shall another man taste?
  What! pressed in the dance by another's man's knee?
  What! panting recline on another than me?
  Sir, she's yours; you have pressed from the grape its fine blue,
  From the rosebud you've shaken the tremulous dew;
  What you've touched you may take. Pretty waltzer—adieu!
  • Sir Henry Englefield, The Waltz, Dancing. in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 156-158.