Exemplary and Instructive Biography: For the Study of YouthChambers, 1836 - 334 Seiten |
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... short time at the college of Padua , where he acquired a knowledge of astronomy and other sciences most necessary to seamen , and particularly useful at a time when so little progress had been made in the arts of navigation . Columbus ...
... short time at the college of Padua , where he acquired a knowledge of astronomy and other sciences most necessary to seamen , and particularly useful at a time when so little progress had been made in the arts of navigation . Columbus ...
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... short , and some of the men proposed to throw Columbus into the sea , and give out on their return that he had accidentally fallen overboard . The first land that Columbus expected to meet was Cipango , which had been placed by ...
... short , and some of the men proposed to throw Columbus into the sea , and give out on their return that he had accidentally fallen overboard . The first land that Columbus expected to meet was Cipango , which had been placed by ...
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... short , is to generalise ; and having done so , we shall some- times discover that objects , which of all others appeared the most useless , remote , and inapplicable to our purpose , possess the very properties we are in search of ...
... short , is to generalise ; and having done so , we shall some- times discover that objects , which of all others appeared the most useless , remote , and inapplicable to our purpose , possess the very properties we are in search of ...
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... short time , without any assistance . So wonderful was his proficiency in the sciences , that at the age of sixteen he wrote " A Treatise on Conic Sections , " which , in the judgment of the most learned men of the time , was considered ...
... short time , without any assistance . So wonderful was his proficiency in the sciences , that at the age of sixteen he wrote " A Treatise on Conic Sections , " which , in the judgment of the most learned men of the time , was considered ...
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... short intervals , by the soothing persuasions of his friends and of his confessor . In the year 1654 , the state of weakness to which he was re- duced having alarmed his physicians , they prescribed to him taking the air and gentle ...
... short intervals , by the soothing persuasions of his friends and of his confessor . In the year 1654 , the state of weakness to which he was re- duced having alarmed his physicians , they prescribed to him taking the air and gentle ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 201 - Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
Seite 76 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Seite 55 - ... 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. Therefore I took some of the tales in the Spectator...
Seite 58 - I was in my working dress, my best clothes being to come round by sea. I was dirty from my journey ; my pockets were stuffed out with shirts and stockings, and I knew no soul, nor where to look for lodging. I...
Seite 122 - I was weary and dejected, inquired into my situation, which I briefly explained to her ; whereupon, with looks of great compassion, she took up my saddle and bridle, and told me to follow her.
Seite 121 - The view of this extensive city; the numerous canoes upon the river; the crowded population and the cultivated state of the surrounding country, formed altogether a prospect of civilization and magnificence, which I little expected to find in the bosom of Africa.
Seite 122 - The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words literally translated were these: — 'The winds roared and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree.
Seite 70 - ... ever after manifested a readiness to serve me on all occasions, so that we became great friends and our friendship continued to his death. This is another instance of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says, ''He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Seite 135 - About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity ; and with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have words to express, set out for New York with the best disposition to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less hope of answering its expectations.
Seite 148 - He was impatient of whatever interfered with his favourite pursuits ; and the fact is too strikingly characteristic not to be mentioned, that he separated from his wife not many years after their marriage, because she, convinced that he would starve his family by scheming when he should have been shaving, broke some of his experimental models of machinery.