The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes ...C. Knight, 1830 |
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... possessed of a good elementary treatise on the science he wishes to learn , hardly , in truth , needs a master . With only this assistance , and sometimes with hardly this , some of the greatest scholars and philosophers that ever ...
... possessed of a good elementary treatise on the science he wishes to learn , hardly , in truth , needs a master . With only this assistance , and sometimes with hardly this , some of the greatest scholars and philosophers that ever ...
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... possessed them- selves of the highest acquirements in science or literature , in spite of every disadvantage of birth . Heyne , as we have mentioned , was the son of a poor weaver . So was the Abbé HAUY , who died in Paris a few years ...
... possessed them- selves of the highest acquirements in science or literature , in spite of every disadvantage of birth . Heyne , as we have mentioned , was the son of a poor weaver . So was the Abbé HAUY , who died in Paris a few years ...
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... possessed , to find its best triumph in their absence . Such was the feeling in which the old Greek painter PROTOGENES acted , who , having passed the earlier years of his life in such obscurity and poverty , that he was obliged to ...
... possessed , to find its best triumph in their absence . Such was the feeling in which the old Greek painter PROTOGENES acted , who , having passed the earlier years of his life in such obscurity and poverty , that he was obliged to ...
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... possessed of the highest mental cultivation , have not permitted that circumstance to withdraw them even from occupa- tions that are generally supposed to be very uncon- genial to literary tastes and habits . Looking generally upon ...
... possessed of the highest mental cultivation , have not permitted that circumstance to withdraw them even from occupa- tions that are generally supposed to be very uncon- genial to literary tastes and habits . Looking generally upon ...
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... possession of wealth is supposed to communicate in every situa- tion . The accessaries of the picture — the candlestick , the rolls of paper , the parrot - are delineated with a fidelity rarely excelled . At any rate the work has ...
... possession of wealth is supposed to communicate in every situa- tion . The accessaries of the picture — the candlestick , the rolls of paper , the parrot - are delineated with a fidelity rarely excelled . At any rate the work has ...
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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.