The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].Wells and Lilly, 1830 - 3 Seiten |
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... hand , he had a book in his pocket . " 6 Peter Ramus , one of the most celebrated writers and intrepid thinkers of the sixteenth century , was employed in his childhood as a shepherd , and ob- tained his education by serving as a ...
... hand , he had a book in his pocket . " 6 Peter Ramus , one of the most celebrated writers and intrepid thinkers of the sixteenth century , was employed in his childhood as a shepherd , and ob- tained his education by serving as a ...
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... hand of his mistress - who is said to have accepted the " painter , " after having rejected the " blacksmith . " The late JULIUS CESAR IBBETSON was originally a ship - painter ; but by the cultivation of his talents became so eminent a ...
... hand of his mistress - who is said to have accepted the " painter , " after having rejected the " blacksmith . " The late JULIUS CESAR IBBETSON was originally a ship - painter ; but by the cultivation of his talents became so eminent a ...
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... hand , that all the chances of the race are not against them . The time they have lost , and are anxious to redeem , of itself gives a sti- mulus that will make up for many disadvantages . Then , although they have not yet learned much ...
... hand , that all the chances of the race are not against them . The time they have lost , and are anxious to redeem , of itself gives a sti- mulus that will make up for many disadvantages . Then , although they have not yet learned much ...
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... hand . Compared with him who educates himself from the beginning , such a student may be regarded as entering upon a new country under the conduct of a guide , instead of endeavouring to find his way through it by the aid simply of the ...
... hand . Compared with him who educates himself from the beginning , such a student may be regarded as entering upon a new country under the conduct of a guide , instead of endeavouring to find his way through it by the aid simply of the ...
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... with his arms in one hand , and his Commen- taries in the other . Cæsar distinguished himself also as a writer on grammar , astronomy , history , and 66 a variety of other subjects ; he was universally 112 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
... with his arms in one hand , and his Commen- taries in the other . Cæsar distinguished himself also as a writer on grammar , astronomy , history , and 66 a variety of other subjects ; he was universally 112 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
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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 136 - Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace ; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a lover ; and attired With sudden brightness, like a man inspired ; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw...
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 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 23 - 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 225 - 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 83 - ... to be an interpreter and relater of the best and sagest things among mine own citizens throughout this island in the mother dialect, 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 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 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.