The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].Wells and Lilly, 1830 - 3 Seiten |
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... celebrated modern invention of the balloon is said to have had an origin still more simple . Ac- cording to some authorities , the idea was first sug- gested to STEPHEN MONTGOLFIER , one of the two brothers to whom we owe the ...
... celebrated modern invention of the balloon is said to have had an origin still more simple . Ac- cording to some authorities , the idea was first sug- gested to STEPHEN MONTGOLFIER , one of the two brothers to whom we owe the ...
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... celebrated geometer of anti- quity , discovered the method of ascertaining the spe- cific gravities of different substances , or the compara- tive weights of equal bulks of each , he is said to have rushed forth naked from the bath in ...
... celebrated geometer of anti- quity , discovered the method of ascertaining the spe- cific gravities of different substances , or the compara- tive weights of equal bulks of each , he is said to have rushed forth naked from the bath in ...
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... celebrated French astro- nomer has expressed it , " what no mortal before that moment had seen - the surface of the moon , like another earth , ridged by high mountains , and fur- rowed by deep vallies - Venus , as well as it , present ...
... celebrated French astro- nomer has expressed it , " what no mortal before that moment had seen - the surface of the moon , like another earth , ridged by high mountains , and fur- rowed by deep vallies - Venus , as well as it , present ...
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... celebrated John Mathias Gesner . The chair had been offered , in the first in- stance , to David Ruhnken , one of the first scholars of the age , who declined , however , to leave the University of Leyden , where he had lately succeeded ...
... celebrated John Mathias Gesner . The chair had been offered , in the first in- stance , to David Ruhnken , one of the first scholars of the age , who declined , however , to leave the University of Leyden , where he had lately succeeded ...
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... celebrated Stoic philosopher , was born in the same condition , and spent many years of his life in servitude . Having been at last fortunate enough to obtain his freedom , he retired to a small hut ; and when he was barely able to ...
... celebrated Stoic philosopher , was born in the same condition , and spent many years of his life in servitude . Having been at last fortunate enough to obtain his freedom , he retired to a small hut ; and when he was barely able to ...
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Seite 21 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore: his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, 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 297 - This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide.
Seite 71 - 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 211 - 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 287 - 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 365 - Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it : his mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
Seite 208 - ... the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected them.
Seite 209 - 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 212 - ... woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther. Thus...
Seite 291 - 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.