The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].Wells and Lilly, 1830 - 3 páginas |
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... father being a poor weaver , with a large family , for whom his best exertions were often unable to provide bread . In the ' Memoirs of his own Life , ' Heyne says , " Want was the earliest companion of my childhood . I well remember ...
... father being a poor weaver , with a large family , for whom his best exertions were often unable to provide bread . In the ' Memoirs of his own Life , ' Heyne says , " Want was the earliest companion of my childhood . I well remember ...
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... father was anxious that he should adopt some trade , but Heyne felt an invincible desire to pursue his literary education ; and it was fortunate for the world that he was at this period of his life furnished with the means of following ...
... father was anxious that he should adopt some trade , but Heyne felt an invincible desire to pursue his literary education ; and it was fortunate for the world that he was at this period of his life furnished with the means of following ...
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... father , not only by his numerous pupils , but by all ranks of his fellow- citizens , who , on his death , in 1812 , felt that their University and city had lost what had been for half a century its chief distinction . CHAPTER III ...
... father , not only by his numerous pupils , but by all ranks of his fellow- citizens , who , on his death , in 1812 , felt that their University and city had lost what had been for half a century its chief distinction . CHAPTER III ...
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... father , after vainly endeavouring for some time , at the expense of many sacrifices , to give him a learned ... father's trade of a blacksmith till he was eighteen years old , when he began of his own accord to apply to his studies ...
... father , after vainly endeavouring for some time , at the expense of many sacrifices , to give him a learned ... father's trade of a blacksmith till he was eighteen years old , when he began of his own accord to apply to his studies ...
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... liarity with the emperor , he took a journey to his native village , purchased the cottage in which his father had lived , and erected on its site at his own E expense a commodious dwelling - house for the parish schoolmaster DUVAL 37 .
... liarity with the emperor , he took a journey to his native village , purchased the cottage in which his father had lived , and erected on its site at his own E expense a commodious dwelling - house for the parish schoolmaster DUVAL 37 .
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Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.