The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].Wells and Lilly, 1830 - 3 Seiten |
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... favourite theory ; partially , therefore , and hastily , as one would consult a dictionary : Newton perused it as a volume altogether worthy of being studied for its own sake . Hence proceeded both the patience with which he traced its ...
... favourite theory ; partially , therefore , and hastily , as one would consult a dictionary : Newton perused it as a volume altogether worthy of being studied for its own sake . Hence proceeded both the patience with which he traced its ...
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... favourite researches , in a city so rich in collections of books and antiquities as Dresden . After he had held his situa- tion in the library for above two years , his salary was doubled ; but before he derived any benefit from the ...
... favourite researches , in a city so rich in collections of books and antiquities as Dresden . After he had held his situa- tion in the library for above two years , his salary was doubled ; but before he derived any benefit from the ...
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... favourite investigations . " In this retreat ( at Brompton ) , he had collected , " says Sir Everard Home , many kinds of animals and birds ; and it was to him a favourite amusement in his walks 66 F to attend to their actions and their ...
... favourite investigations . " In this retreat ( at Brompton ) , he had collected , " says Sir Everard Home , many kinds of animals and birds ; and it was to him a favourite amusement in his walks 66 F to attend to their actions and their ...
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... about 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 .
... about 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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... favourite science . It is a curious circumstance , however , and shews at once his ardour in the pursuit of knowledge , and the penalty he was long afterwards obliged to pay for his early negligence , that he actually submitted , when ...
... favourite science . It is a curious circumstance , however , and shews at once his ardour in the pursuit of knowledge , and the penalty he was long afterwards obliged to pay for his early negligence , that he actually submitted , when ...
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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.