The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes, Band 1Knight, 1830 - 427 Seiten |
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... fortune , whose triumphs we are about to record , we would point as guides for all who , similarly circumstanced , may aspire to follow in the same honourable path . Their lives are lessons that cannot be read without profit ; nor are ...
... fortune , whose triumphs we are about to record , we would point as guides for all who , similarly circumstanced , may aspire to follow in the same honourable path . Their lives are lessons that cannot be read without profit ; nor are ...
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... fortune . He was resolved to try , he said , whether , although she had thrown him among the dust , he should not be able to rise up by his own efforts . His ardour for study only grew the greater as his difficulties increased . For six ...
... fortune . He was resolved to try , he said , whether , although she had thrown him among the dust , he should not be able to rise up by his own efforts . His ardour for study only grew the greater as his difficulties increased . For six ...
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... years , during which his time was chiefly occupied in the manage- ment of that gentleman's property . At last , at the general peace in 1763 , he returned to Dresden ; and here ended his hard fortunes . Some D 3 HEYNE . 29.
... years , during which his time was chiefly occupied in the manage- ment of that gentleman's property . At last , at the general peace in 1763 , he returned to Dresden ; and here ended his hard fortunes . Some D 3 HEYNE . 29.
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Illustrated by Anecdotes George Lillie Craik. Dresden ; and here ended his hard fortunes . Some time before his arrival in that city , the Professorship of Eloquence in the University of Gottingen had become vacant , by the death of the ...
Illustrated by Anecdotes George Lillie Craik. Dresden ; and here ended his hard fortunes . Some time before his arrival in that city , the Professorship of Eloquence in the University of Gottingen had become vacant , by the death of the ...
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... 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 emperor , he native village , purchased the took a journey to his cottage ...
... 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 emperor , he native village , purchased the took a journey to his cottage ...
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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.