The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes, Band 1Knight, 1830 - 427 Seiten |
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... appeared to do in regard to the planets which revolved around the sun , he next set himself to calculate whether its force , at such a distance from the earth , would in reality be sufficient to retain that satellite in its orbit , and ...
... appeared to do in regard to the planets which revolved around the sun , he next set himself to calculate whether its force , at such a distance from the earth , would in reality be sufficient to retain that satellite in its orbit , and ...
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... appeared have formed themselves , as the following pages will shew . And let him who , smitten by the love of knowledge , may yet conceive himself to be on any account unfortunately cir- cumstanced for the business of mental cultivation ...
... appeared have formed themselves , as the following pages will shew . And let him who , smitten by the love of knowledge , may yet conceive himself to be on any account unfortunately cir- cumstanced for the business of mental cultivation ...
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... appearance , that , destitute both of money and books , he would even have been without bread too , had it not been for the compassion of the maid - servant of the house where he lodged . What sustained his courage in these ...
... appearance , that , destitute both of money and books , he would even have been without bread too , had it not been for the compassion of the maid - servant of the house where he lodged . What sustained his courage in these ...
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... appearance at the hut of a hermit , the recluse was so much struck by the intelligence of his answers , that he proposed he should take up his abode with him , and share his labours , an offer which Duval gladly accepted . Here he had ...
... appearance at the hut of a hermit , the recluse was so much struck by the intelligence of his answers , that he proposed he should take up his abode with him , and share his labours , an offer which Duval gladly accepted . Here he had ...
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... appearance in the year 1650. A second edition of it was printed a few years after , with great pomp of typography and ... appeared ; and Ogilby , who had in the mean- while established himself a second time in Dublin , in the management ...
... appearance in the year 1650. A second edition of it was printed a few years after , with great pomp of typography and ... appeared ; and Ogilby , who had in the mean- while established himself a second time in Dublin , in the management ...
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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 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 390 - 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.
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 387 - ... 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.
Seite 224 - ... and a glass of water, had the rest of the » time till their return for study, in which I made the greater progress, from that greater clearness of head and quicker apprehension which usually attend temperance in eating and drinking.
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 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 228 - 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.