The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].Wells and Lilly, 1830 - 3 páginas |
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... considerable elevation above the earth , when , the atmospheric column being diminished , that of the mercury , which was supposed to be its balance , ought to be shortened likewise in a corresponding proportion . It followed that we ...
... considerable elevation above the earth , when , the atmospheric column being diminished , that of the mercury , which was supposed to be its balance , ought to be shortened likewise in a corresponding proportion . It followed that we ...
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... considerable difficulty he was found . He held this appointment for nearly fifty years ; in the course of which , as we have already remarked , he may be said , by his successive publications , and the attraction of his lectures , to ...
... considerable difficulty he was found . He held this appointment for nearly fifty years ; in the course of which , as we have already remarked , he may be said , by his successive publications , and the attraction of his lectures , to ...
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... considerable genius and learning , followed his father's trade of a blacksmith till he was eighteen years old , when he began of his own accord to apply to his studies ; and by availing himself of the aid sometimes of one friend , and ...
... considerable genius and learning , followed his father's trade of a blacksmith till he was eighteen years old , when he began of his own accord to apply to his studies ; and by availing himself of the aid sometimes of one friend , and ...
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... , and then with a shoemaker . HANS SACHS , one of the most famous of the early German poets , and a scholar of considerable learning , was the son of a taylor , and served an apprenticeship 44 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
... , and then with a shoemaker . HANS SACHS , one of the most famous of the early German poets , and a scholar of considerable learning , was the son of a taylor , and served an apprenticeship 44 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
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... considerable reputation , in particular , by an inclosure and covering of this description , which he made for a well in the neighbourhood of the great church of Antwerp . He began , however , at length to find even such work as this ...
... considerable reputation , in particular , by an inclosure and covering of this description , which he made for a well in the neighbourhood of the great church of Antwerp . He began , however , at length to find even such work as this ...
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Página 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.
Página 297 - This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 212 - ... woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther. Thus...
Página 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.