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... ; Buchanan ; Tasso ; Smart ; Maggi ; Le Maistre , Lorenzini , nne ; Madame Roland ; Raleigh ; Lady Jane Grey ; James I. ( of Scotland ) ; Lovelace .264 CHAPTER XVII . Natural Defects overcome . Demosthenes ; De CONTENTS . vii.
... ; Buchanan ; Tasso ; Smart ; Maggi ; Le Maistre , Lorenzini , nne ; Madame Roland ; Raleigh ; Lady Jane Grey ; James I. ( of Scotland ) ; Lovelace .264 CHAPTER XVII . Natural Defects overcome . Demosthenes ; De CONTENTS . vii.
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George Lillie Craik. CHAPTER XVII . Natural Defects overcome . Demosthenes ; De Beaumont ; Navarete ; Saunderson ; Rugendas ; Diodotus ; Didy . mus ; Eusebius ; Nicaise , De Pagan ; Galileo ; Euler ; Moyes CHAPTER XVIII . · Pag 28 ...
George Lillie Craik. CHAPTER XVII . Natural Defects overcome . Demosthenes ; De Beaumont ; Navarete ; Saunderson ; Rugendas ; Diodotus ; Didy . mus ; Eusebius ; Nicaise , De Pagan ; Galileo ; Euler ; Moyes CHAPTER XVIII . · Pag 28 ...
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... natural communications to his fellow - mortals , to that of excelling those around him in such mere human and unvalued attributes as philosophic sagacity and patience . Add to this , that the legend of a mystical origin was not only the ...
... natural communications to his fellow - mortals , to that of excelling those around him in such mere human and unvalued attributes as philosophic sagacity and patience . Add to this , that the legend of a mystical origin was not only the ...
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... naturally adopted the common estimate of the magnitude of the earth , which was at that time in use among our geographers and seamen . Indeed , no other then existed for him to adopt but it was even then known to scientific men that ...
... naturally adopted the common estimate of the magnitude of the earth , which was at that time in use among our geographers and seamen . Indeed , no other then existed for him to adopt but it was even then known to scientific men that ...
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... pains in instructing him in the different branches both of natural and moral philosophy . And , to mention no more instances , CLEANTHES , another of the Stoics , was brought up to the profession 32 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
... pains in instructing him in the different branches both of natural and moral philosophy . And , to mention no more instances , CLEANTHES , another of the Stoics , was brought up to the profession 32 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
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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.