The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].Wells and Lilly, 1830 - 3 páginas |
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... forming one body with that in the basin , descend , until , exactly as he had anticipated , there remained suspended a column of twenty - eight inches TORRICELLI . PASCAL , PRINCE RUPERT . 13 only . 12 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
... forming one body with that in the basin , descend , until , exactly as he had anticipated , there remained suspended a column of twenty - eight inches TORRICELLI . PASCAL , PRINCE RUPERT . 13 only . 12 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
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... formed themselves , as the following pages will shew . And let him who , smitten by the love of knowledge , may yet conceive himself to be on any account unfortunately cir- cumstanced for the business of mental cultivation , bethink him ...
... formed themselves , as the following pages will shew . And let him who , smitten by the love of knowledge , may yet conceive himself to be on any account unfortunately cir- cumstanced for the business of mental cultivation , bethink him ...
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... formed an attachment during his residence there . Thus left , both of them , without a shilling , the young persons nevertheless determined to share each other's destiny , and they were accordingly united . By the exertions of some ...
... formed an attachment during his residence there . Thus left , both of them , without a shilling , the young persons nevertheless determined to share each other's destiny , and they were accordingly united . By the exertions of some ...
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... printer , that gentleman sought him out ; and after forming an acquaintance with him , took him one day to a foundery in Bartholomew Close , when , after * See p . 52 . having shewn him something of the nature of the business.
... printer , that gentleman sought him out ; and after forming an acquaintance with him , took him one day to a foundery in Bartholomew Close , when , after * See p . 52 . having shewn him something of the nature of the business.
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... formed , and a certain degree of aversion con- tracted for what we may call the discipline of appren- ticeship in the rudiments of any art or profession . Considerable as this disadvantage must have been we see how completely it was ...
... formed , and a certain degree of aversion con- tracted for what we may call the discipline of appren- ticeship in the rudiments of any art or profession . Considerable as this disadvantage must have been we see how completely it was ...
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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.