The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].C. Knight, 1834 |
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... appeared to do in regard to the planets which revolved around the sun , he next set himself to calculate whether its force , at such a distance from the earth , would in reality be sufficient to retain that satellite in its orbit , and ...
... appeared to do in regard to the planets which revolved around the sun , he next set himself to calculate whether its force , at such a distance from the earth , would in reality be sufficient to retain that satellite in its orbit , and ...
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... appeared have formed themselves , as the following pages will show . And let him who , smitten by the love of knowledge , may yet conceive himself to be on any account unfortunately cir- cumstanced for the business of mental cultivation ...
... appeared have formed themselves , as the following pages will show . And let him who , smitten by the love of knowledge , may yet conceive himself to be on any account unfortunately cir- cumstanced for the business of mental cultivation ...
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... appearance , that , destitute both of money and books , he would even have been without bread too , had it not been for the compassion of the maid - servant of the house where he lodged . What sustained his courage in these ...
... appearance , that , destitute both of money and books , he would even have been without bread too , had it not been for the compassion of the maid - servant of the house where he lodged . What sustained his courage in these ...
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... appearance at the hut of a hermit , the recluse was so much struck by the intelligence of his answers , that he proposed he should take up his abode with him , and share his labours , an offer which Duval gladly accepted . Here he had ...
... appearance at the hut of a hermit , the recluse was so much struck by the intelligence of his answers , that he proposed he should take up his abode with him , and share his labours , an offer which Duval gladly accepted . Here he had ...
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... appearance in the year 1650. A second edition of it was printed a few years after , with great pomp of typography ... appeared ; and Ogilby , who had in the mean while established himself a second time in Dublin , in the management of ...
... appearance in the year 1650. A second edition of it was printed a few years after , with great pomp of typography ... appeared ; and Ogilby , who had in the mean while established himself a second time in Dublin , in the management of ...
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The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik]. George Lillie Craik Vista completa - 1834 |
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Página 307 - This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide.
Página 136 - Whose powers shed round him in the common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired ; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw...
Página 83 - That what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews of old did for their country, I in my proportion with this over and above of being a Christian, might do for mine...
Página 136 - Or if an unexpected call succeed, Come when it will, is equal to the need: —He who, though thus endued as with a sense And faculty for storm and turbulence, Is yet a Soul whose master-bias leans To homefelt pleasures and to gentle scenes; Sweet images! which, wheresoe'er he be, Are at his heart; and such fidelity It is his darling passion to approve; More brave for this, that he hath much to love...
Página 23 - Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Página 223 - By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.
Página 238 - I was to continue doing a sheet a day of the folio that one night, when having imposed my forms I thought my day's work over, one of them by accident was broken and two pages reduced to pi, I immediately distributed and composed it over again before I went to bed ; and this industry, visible to our neighbors, began to give us character and credit. Particularly I was told that mention being made of the new printing-office at the merchants...
Página 225 - They read it, commented on it in my hearing, and I had the exquisite pleasure of finding it met with their approbation, and that, in their different guesses at the author, none were named but men of some character among us for learning and ingenuity.
Página 307 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame, nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Página 227 - I was in my working dress, my best clothes being to come round by sea. I was dirty from my journey; my pockets were stuffed out with shirts and stockings, and I knew no soul nor where to look for lodging.