The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].Wells and Lilly, 1830 - 3 Seiten |
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... able to accomplish the high enterprise which he had so early planned , he declares that the deeper he had carried his reflections and inquiries , he had only become the more convinced of its practica- bility . Such allurement is there ...
... able to accomplish the high enterprise which he had so early planned , he declares that the deeper he had carried his reflections and inquiries , he had only become the more convinced of its practica- bility . Such allurement is there ...
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... able effectually to subdue . The late Professor HEYNE , of Gottingen , was one of the greatest classical scholars of his own or of any age , and during his latter days enjoyed a degree of distinction , both in his own country and ...
... able effectually to subdue . The late Professor HEYNE , of Gottingen , was one of the greatest classical scholars of his own or of any age , and during his latter days enjoyed a degree of distinction , both in his own country and ...
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... able to rise up by his own efforts . His ardour for study only grew the greater as his difficulties increased . For six months he only allowed himself two nights ' sleep in the week ; and yet all the while his godfather scarcely ever ...
... able to rise up by his own efforts . His ardour for study only grew the greater as his difficulties increased . For six months he only allowed himself two nights ' sleep in the week ; and yet all the while his godfather scarcely ever ...
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... able to procure the necessaries of life , devoted himself to the study of philosophy . A treatise of this writer was one of the works edited by Heyne , while at Dresden ; and he used to relate that his fortitude , amid the difficulties ...
... able to procure the necessaries of life , devoted himself to the study of philosophy . A treatise of this writer was one of the works edited by Heyne , while at Dresden ; and he used to relate that his fortitude , amid the difficulties ...
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... able antiquarian of the last century , and who at the time of his death held the office of keeper of the imperial medals at Vienna , as well as that of one of the preceptors to the prince , afterwards the Emperor Joseph II . , was the ...
... able antiquarian of the last century , and who at the time of his death held the office of keeper of the imperial medals at Vienna , as well as that of one of the preceptors to the prince , afterwards the Emperor Joseph II . , was the ...
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Seite 81 - 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 223 - 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 220 - ... 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 21 - 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 221 - 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 380 - 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 298 - Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Seite 224 - 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 377 - ... 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 219 - I had gone on making verses ; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind and make me master of it.