The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes, Band 1C. Knight, 1830 - 3 Seiten |
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... discovery was marked by a very sin- gular circumstance , and one strikingly illustrative of the truly philosophic character of this great man's mind . In the computations which he undertook for the purpose of this investigation , he ...
... discovery was marked by a very sin- gular circumstance , and one strikingly illustrative of the truly philosophic character of this great man's mind . In the computations which he undertook for the purpose of this investigation , he ...
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... discovery of the regularity of oscillation in the pen- dulum . It was while standing one day in the metro- politan church of Pisa , that his attention was first awakened to this most important fact , by observing the movements of a lamp ...
... discovery of the regularity of oscillation in the pen- dulum . It was while standing one day in the metro- politan church of Pisa , that his attention was first awakened to this most important fact , by observing the movements of a lamp ...
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... discovery , the first steps towards which had been made two thousand years before ; during the whole of which period the phenomena best fitted to suggest it were matter of daily observation to every one : but which , nevertheless , at ...
... discovery , the first steps towards which had been made two thousand years before ; during the whole of which period the phenomena best fitted to suggest it were matter of daily observation to every one : but which , nevertheless , at ...
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... discovery as above . But some writers state that mezzotinto scraping was the invention of Lieut . - Col . de Siegen ; that he thus engraved the portrait of the Landgravine of Hesse , in 1643 ; and that Prince Rupert learnt the art of ...
... discovery as above . But some writers state that mezzotinto scraping was the invention of Lieut . - Col . de Siegen ; that he thus engraved the portrait of the Landgravine of Hesse , in 1643 ; and that Prince Rupert learnt the art of ...
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... discovery ; when the truth shone full upon him , and not a shade remained to create a doubt that it was indeed the truth which he had found and upon which he was gazing . Every other discoverer , or inventor , or creator of any of the ...
... discovery ; when the truth shone full upon him , and not a shade remained to create a doubt that it was indeed the truth which he had found and upon which he was gazing . Every other discoverer , or inventor , or creator of any of the ...
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Seite 307 - This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide.
Seite 305 - 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...
Seite 136 - 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 227 - 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.
Seite 228 - Street wharf, near the boat 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.
Seite 387 - Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it : his mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
Seite 136 - 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...
Seite 23 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore: his ponderous shield, 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.
Seite 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.