The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].Wells and Lilly, 1830 - 3 páginas |
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... celebrated modern invention of the balloon is said to have had an origin still more simple . Ac- cording to some authorities , the idea was first sug- gested to STEPHEN MONTGOLFIER , one of the two brothers to whom we owe the ...
... celebrated modern invention of the balloon is said to have had an origin still more simple . Ac- cording to some authorities , the idea was first sug- gested to STEPHEN MONTGOLFIER , one of the two brothers to whom we owe the ...
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... celebrated geometer of anti- quity , discovered the method of ascertaining the spe- cific gravities of different substances , or the compara- tive weights of equal bulks of each , he is said to have rushed forth naked from the bath in ...
... celebrated geometer of anti- quity , discovered the method of ascertaining the spe- cific gravities of different substances , or the compara- tive weights of equal bulks of each , he is said to have rushed forth naked from the bath in ...
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... celebrated French astro- nomer has expressed it , " what no mortal before that moment had seen -- the surface of the moon , like another earth , ridged by high mountains , and fur- rowed by deep vallies - Venus , as well as it , present ...
... celebrated French astro- nomer has expressed it , " what no mortal before that moment had seen -- the surface of the moon , like another earth , ridged by high mountains , and fur- rowed by deep vallies - Venus , as well as it , present ...
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... celebrated John Mathias Gesner . The chair had been offered , in the first in- stance , to David Ruhnken , one of the first scholars of the age , who declined , however , to leave the University of Leyden , where he had lately succeeded ...
... celebrated John Mathias Gesner . The chair had been offered , in the first in- stance , to David Ruhnken , one of the first scholars of the age , who declined , however , to leave the University of Leyden , where he had lately succeeded ...
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... celebrated Stoic philosopher , was born in the same condition , and spent many years of his life in servitude . Having been at last fortunate enough to obtain his freedom , he retired to a small hut ; and when he was barely able to ...
... celebrated Stoic philosopher , was born in the same condition , and spent many years of his life in servitude . Having been at last fortunate enough to obtain his freedom , he retired to a small hut ; and when he was barely able to ...
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Página 81 - 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 223 - I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there.
Página 220 - ... and a glass of water, had the rest of the time till their return for study, in which I made the greater progress, from that greater clearness of head and quicker apprehension which usually attend temperance in eating and drinking.
Página 21 - 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 221 - 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 380 - The collection of Songs was my vade mecum. I pored over them, driving my cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse ; carefully noting the true tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic craft, such as it is.
Página 298 - Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Página 224 - I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water; and, being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther.
Página 377 - ... who, as he was a happie imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it. His mind and hand went together; and what he thought, he uttered with that easinesse that wee have scarse received from him a blot in his papers.
Página 219 - I had gone on making verses ; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind and make me master of it.