The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes, Band 1Knight, 1830 - 427 Seiten |
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... remarkable of these cases we shall have an oppor tunity of introducing under other heads of the sub- ject ; but , at present , we may merely mention a few of those which we may not afterwards find so con- venient an occasion of noticing ...
... remarkable of these cases we shall have an oppor tunity of introducing under other heads of the sub- ject ; but , at present , we may merely mention a few of those which we may not afterwards find so con- venient an occasion of noticing ...
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... remarkable . In so far as his native literature was concerned , Cato was before this one of the most learned of his countrymen : but he certainly had never experienced what it was to study a foreign * See p . 107 . language till now ...
... remarkable . In so far as his native literature was concerned , Cato was before this one of the most learned of his countrymen : but he certainly had never experienced what it was to study a foreign * See p . 107 . language till now ...
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... remarkable for its vicissitudes , and not uninstructive as an evi- dence both of the respectable proficiency in litera- ture which may be acquired by those who begin their education late in life , and also of what may be done by a stout ...
... remarkable for its vicissitudes , and not uninstructive as an evi- dence both of the respectable proficiency in litera- ture which may be acquired by those who begin their education late in life , and also of what may be done by a stout ...
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... remarkable for its purity , and whose other works in the same language are all eminently deserving of the same praise , in afterwards translating the Scriptures into French , expressed himself in so vulgar and barbarous a manner , that ...
... remarkable for its purity , and whose other works in the same language are all eminently deserving of the same praise , in afterwards translating the Scriptures into French , expressed himself in so vulgar and barbarous a manner , that ...
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... remarkable eclipse of the sun , which happened on the 11th of May , 1724 ; but , if this was the incident that gave his mind its first bias towards the studies in which he afterwards attained so high a distinction , it was to his casual ...
... remarkable eclipse of the sun , which happened on the 11th of May , 1724 ; but , if this was the incident that gave his mind its first bias towards the studies in which he afterwards attained so high a distinction , it was to his casual ...
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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.