The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes ...C. Knight, 1830 |
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... character of the man . He loved Truth , and wooed her with the un- wearying ardour of a lover . Other speculators ... characters , and the rich and plentiful dis- coveries with which the search rewarded him . If he afterwards classified ...
... character of the man . He loved Truth , and wooed her with the un- wearying ardour of a lover . Other speculators ... characters , and the rich and plentiful dis- coveries with which the search rewarded him . If he afterwards classified ...
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... character of this great man's mind . In the computations which he undertook for the purpose of this investigation , he naturally adopted the common estimate of the magnitude of the earth , which was at that time in use among our ...
... character of this great man's mind . In the computations which he undertook for the purpose of this investigation , he naturally adopted the common estimate of the magnitude of the earth , which was at that time in use among our ...
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... character which they derive from the moral or intellectual associations they awaken ? Mo- mentary excitements for the child , but hardly the gra- tifications even of a moment to the man - as is abun- dantly evidenced by the case of many ...
... character which they derive from the moral or intellectual associations they awaken ? Mo- mentary excitements for the child , but hardly the gra- tifications even of a moment to the man - as is abun- dantly evidenced by the case of many ...
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... character at the public games ; till , longing to study philosophy , he betook himself for that purpose to Athens , where he arrived with only three drachms ( about three shillings and sixpence ) in his pocket . In these cir- cumstances ...
... character at the public games ; till , longing to study philosophy , he betook himself for that purpose to Athens , where he arrived with only three drachms ( about three shillings and sixpence ) in his pocket . In these cir- cumstances ...
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... character and manners which the humble nature of his origin and first fortunes had given him . It is grati- fying indeed to have to tell , that even after he had become a courtier , and was living in intimate fami- liarity with the ...
... character and manners which the humble nature of his origin and first fortunes had given him . It is grati- fying indeed to have to tell , that even after he had become a courtier , and was living in intimate fami- liarity with the ...
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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.