The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes ...C. Knight, 1830 |
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... attention of all less active and original minds . We are not now speaking of such lucky discoveries as mere chance has sometimes suggested , even to the most inattentive understandings . How far we are indebted to this source for many ...
... attention of all less active and original minds . We are not now speaking of such lucky discoveries as mere chance has sometimes suggested , even to the most inattentive understandings . How far we are indebted to this source for many ...
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... attention ; and the little incident which inter- rupted him was instantly seized upon by his eager spirit , and , by that power which is in genius , assi- milated with his thoughts . * The existence of gra- * This anecdote is given by ...
... attention ; and the little incident which inter- rupted him was instantly seized upon by his eager spirit , and , by that power which is in genius , assi- milated with his thoughts . * The existence of gra- * This anecdote is given by ...
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... attention was first awakened to this most important fact , by observing the movements of a lamp suspended from the ceil- ing , which some accident had disturbed and caused to vibrate . Now this , or something exactly similar , was a ...
... attention was first awakened to this most important fact , by observing the movements of a lamp suspended from the ceil- ing , which some accident had disturbed and caused to vibrate . Now this , or something exactly similar , was a ...
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... the earth must of course have forced itself upon the attention of the very earliest inhabitants of our globe , every day and hour of their existence . Indeed , the law in nearly all the generality in which Newton found it , had GALILEO . 9.
... the earth must of course have forced itself upon the attention of the very earliest inhabitants of our globe , every day and hour of their existence . Indeed , the law in nearly all the generality in which Newton found it , had GALILEO . 9.
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... attention , as it opens a field of invention and discovery to which all men have , in one sense , equal access ; although it is only that mind which has been rightly prepared , by previous knowledge and reflec- tion , which is in a ...
... attention , as it opens a field of invention and discovery to which all men have , in one sense , equal access ; although it is only that mind which has been rightly prepared , by previous knowledge and reflec- tion , which is in a ...
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Página 303 - This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide.
Página 386 - 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 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 23 - Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, 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 - 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 301 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine: But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Página 257 - Nollet, preceptor in Natural Philosophy to the royal family, and an able experimenter, who had formed and published a theory of electricity, which then had the general vogue. He could not at first believe that such a work came from America, and said it must have been fabricated by his enemies at Paris, to decry his system. Afterwards, having been assured that there really existed such a person as Franklin at Philadelphia, which he had doubted, he wrote and published a volume of Letters...
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 383 - ... 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 224 - Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.