The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties. Illustrated by Anecdotes, Volumen2Nattali and Bond, 1860 |
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... enabled to secure access for himself to an inexhaustible store of intellectual amusement and instruction , at an ex- pense which even the poorest could scarcely feel . As yet these advantages have been chiefly in the posses- sion of the ...
... enabled to secure access for himself to an inexhaustible store of intellectual amusement and instruction , at an ex- pense which even the poorest could scarcely feel . As yet these advantages have been chiefly in the posses- sion of the ...
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... enabled to discover the defects of the Russian version . M. Stählin tells another anecdote , which shews how fully his majesty understood the value of that early instruction which he had not himself enjoyed . Find- ing two of his ...
... enabled to discover the defects of the Russian version . M. Stählin tells another anecdote , which shews how fully his majesty understood the value of that early instruction which he had not himself enjoyed . Find- ing two of his ...
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... enabling a single nation to triumph over the prostration of the rest . There appeared some years ago , in one of our periodical works , † a very able and learned com- mentary on Napier's " Secret Inventions , " the writer * There is a ...
... enabling a single nation to triumph over the prostration of the rest . There appeared some years ago , in one of our periodical works , † a very able and learned com- mentary on Napier's " Secret Inventions , " the writer * There is a ...
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... enabled him to choose his own . pursuits ; and , having first spent some years in travelling through Germany and Switzerland , and visiting the different observatories in these countries , he then returned home , took up his residence ...
... enabled him to choose his own . pursuits ; and , having first spent some years in travelling through Germany and Switzerland , and visiting the different observatories in these countries , he then returned home , took up his residence ...
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... enabled to prosecute his celestial observations on the grandest scale . In this island , accordingly , Brahe now took up his abode , and soon erected on it a splendid ob- servatory , provided with all the best instruments known in that ...
... enabled to prosecute his celestial observations on the grandest scale . In this island , accordingly , Brahe now took up his abode , and soon erected on it a splendid ob- servatory , provided with all the best instruments known in that ...
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