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... told , on the occasion , that he offered up a hecatomb , or sacrifice of a hundred oxen , to the gods , in testimony of his gratitude and exultation . When ARCHIMEDES , the Sicilian , the most renowned geometer of antiquity , achieved ...
... told , on the occasion , that he offered up a hecatomb , or sacrifice of a hundred oxen , to the gods , in testimony of his gratitude and exultation . When ARCHIMEDES , the Sicilian , the most renowned geometer of antiquity , achieved ...
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... told of him . It is said , that before he had obtained his liberty , his master , a brutal man , chose one day to amuse himself by twisting the leg of the slave . " You will break it , " remarked Epictetus ; and the next moment snap it ...
... told of him . It is said , that before he had obtained his liberty , his master , a brutal man , chose one day to amuse himself by twisting the leg of the slave . " You will break it , " remarked Epictetus ; and the next moment snap it ...
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... told him that he should not have the seal , unless he could describe the armorial bearings on it in correct heraldic phrase . Surprised at any appearance of an acquaintance with such subjects in the poor cow - herd , Forster , who was a ...
... told him that he should not have the seal , unless he could describe the armorial bearings on it in correct heraldic phrase . Surprised at any appearance of an acquaintance with such subjects in the poor cow - herd , Forster , who was a ...
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... told , on the advantage which is gained in regard to clearness of conception by the committing of one's ideas to writing- comparing the process to the taking of stock by a tradesman , without which he cannot know with certainty either ...
... told , on the advantage which is gained in regard to clearness of conception by the committing of one's ideas to writing- comparing the process to the taking of stock by a tradesman , without which he cannot know with certainty either ...
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... told of Alfred's first acquaintance with books . His mother , it is said , had shown him and his brothers a small volume of Saxon poetry , illu- minated or adorned in different places with coloured letters , and other such ...
... told of Alfred's first acquaintance with books . His mother , it is said , had shown him and his brothers a small volume of Saxon poetry , illu- minated or adorned in different places with coloured letters , and other such ...
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The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties [By G.L. Craik]. Continuation George Lillie Craik Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
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Seite 150 - 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 92 - Come when it will, is equal to the need: —He who, though thus endued as with a sense And faculty for storm and turbulence, Is yet a Soul whose master-bias leans To home-felt pleasures and to gentle scenes; Sweet images! which, wheresoe'er he be, Are at his heart; and such fidelity It is his darling passion to approve; More brave for this, that he hath much to love...
Seite 545 - Is. 6d. per vol. Naval and Military Heroes of Great Britain ; or, Calendar of Victory. Being a Record of British Valour and Conquest by Sea and Land, on every day In the year, from the time of William the Conqueror to the Battle of Inkermann. By Major JOHNS, RM, and Lieutenant PH NICOLAS, RM. Twenty-four Par
Seite 56 - 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 : not caring to be once named abroad, though perhaps I could attain to that, but content with these British Islands as my world...
Seite 200 - 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: But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Seite 150 - He gave me, accordingly, three great puffy rolls. I was surprised at the quantity, but took it, and, having no room in my pockets, walked off with a roll under each arm, and eating the other.
Seite 148 - I took some of the tales and turned them into verse; and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again.
Seite 260 - ... 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.