The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].Wells and Lilly, 1830 - 3 Seiten |
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... soon exhibited an uncommon desire of acquiring information . He made so rapid a progress in the humble branches of knowledge taught in the school , that , before he had completed his tenth year , he was paying a portion of his school ...
... soon exhibited an uncommon desire of acquiring information . He made so rapid a progress in the humble branches of knowledge taught in the school , that , before he had completed his tenth year , he was paying a portion of his school ...
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... soon after finding his way into the house , and running off with it . " He shall be cheated , " said Epictetus , " if he come back to - morrow , for he shall find only an earthen one . " PROTAGORAS , too , another of the Greek ...
... soon after finding his way into the house , and running off with it . " He shall be cheated , " said Epictetus , " if he come back to - morrow , for he shall find only an earthen one . " PROTAGORAS , too , another of the Greek ...
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... soon after turned off for some petty fault , he resolved to leave his native place altogether , that he might not be a burthen to his mother . So he set out on his travels , without knowing in what direction he was proceeding , in the ...
... soon after turned off for some petty fault , he resolved to leave his native place altogether , that he might not be a burthen to his mother . So he set out on his travels , without knowing in what direction he was proceeding , in the ...
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... soon as they were se- cured , and he had time to reflect upon the risk of his own situation , he was so much affected that he was in danger of fainting . " Mr. Hunter died in the sixty - sixth year of his age , in 1793. After his death ...
... soon as they were se- cured , and he had time to reflect upon the risk of his own situation , he was so much affected that he was in danger of fainting . " Mr. Hunter died in the sixty - sixth year of his age , in 1793. After his death ...
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... with him in his bosom . This became the commencement of a collection of favourite sentences from the Latin writers , which Alfred , ever aspiring after excellence , soon became ambitious to be able 64 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
... with him in his bosom . This became the commencement of a collection of favourite sentences from the Latin writers , which Alfred , ever aspiring after excellence , soon became ambitious to be able 64 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
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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.