The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].C. Knight, 1834 |
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... body of examples , to show how the most unpro- pitious circumstances have been unable to conquer an ardent desire for the acquisition of knowledge . Every man has difficulties to encounter in this pur- suit ; and therefore every man is ...
... body of examples , to show how the most unpro- pitious circumstances have been unable to conquer an ardent desire for the acquisition of knowledge . Every man has difficulties to encounter in this pur- suit ; and therefore every man is ...
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... bodies in the immediate vicinity of our planet ; and the great Galileo had even ascertained the law , or rate ... body upon which it operated . This result he had already anticipated from the con- sideration that , although we ...
... bodies in the immediate vicinity of our planet ; and the great Galileo had even ascertained the law , or rate ... body upon which it operated . This result he had already anticipated from the con- sideration that , although we ...
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... bodies , which was already known to affect at least every body in the immediate neighbourhood of the earth . But these things are only simple after they are explained . Slight and transparent as we may think the veil to have been which ...
... bodies , which was already known to affect at least every body in the immediate neighbourhood of the earth . But these things are only simple after they are explained . Slight and transparent as we may think the veil to have been which ...
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... bodies ; but as the principle , when affecting bodies in the neighbour- hood of the earth , was that of a force ... body , nobody for two thousand years found out the true reason why , on its removal from the barrel of the pump by ...
... bodies ; but as the principle , when affecting bodies in the neighbour- hood of the earth , was that of a force ... body , nobody for two thousand years found out the true reason why , on its removal from the barrel of the pump by ...
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... body of the pump are merely a counter- balance to a column of air of equal basis , reaching to the top of the atmosphere . But if so , it then oc- curred to him , that another liquid , heavier or lighter than water , will , in similar ...
... body of the pump are merely a counter- balance to a column of air of equal basis , reaching to the top of the atmosphere . But if so , it then oc- curred to him , that another liquid , heavier or lighter than water , will , in similar ...
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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 136 - Whose powers shed round him in the common strife, 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 136 - Or if an unexpected call succeed, 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 - 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 223 - By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.
Seite 238 - I was to continue doing a sheet a day of the folio that one night, when having imposed my forms I thought my day's work over, one of them by accident was broken and two pages reduced to pi, I immediately distributed and composed it over again before I went to bed ; and this industry, visible to our neighbors, began to give us character and credit. Particularly I was told that mention being made of the new printing-office at the merchants...
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.
Seite 307 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame, nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Seite 227 - I was in my working dress, my best clothes being to come round by sea. I was dirty from my journey; my pockets were stuffed out with shirts and stockings, and I knew no soul nor where to look for lodging.