The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].C. Knight, 1834 |
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... time a thousand years ago , it remains as new a plea- sure as if it had only been found out yesterday , for him who has not yet acquired it . Such pleasures , in truth , are the only ones that admit of being GALILEO . 23.
... time a thousand years ago , it remains as new a plea- sure as if it had only been found out yesterday , for him who has not yet acquired it . Such pleasures , in truth , are the only ones that admit of being GALILEO . 23.
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... acquiring information . He made so rapid a progress in the humble branches of know- ledge taught in the school , that , before he had com- pleted his tenth year , he was paying a portion of his school fees by teaching a little girl ...
... acquiring information . He made so rapid a progress in the humble branches of know- ledge taught in the school , that , before he had com- pleted his tenth year , he was paying a portion of his school fees by teaching a little girl ...
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... acquired a high place among the literary men of the day . He never forgot , however , either his early benefactors , or departed from that simplicity of character and manners which the humble nature of his origin and first fortunes had ...
... acquired a high place among the literary men of the day . He never forgot , however , either his early benefactors , or departed from that simplicity of character and manners which the humble nature of his origin and first fortunes had ...
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... acquired great wealth , and having been created by the Emperor Charles V. a knight of the order of St. James , he is said to have repeatedly changed his name , in order to hide his parentage , and to have fixed at last upon that by ...
... acquired great wealth , and having been created by the Emperor Charles V. a knight of the order of St. James , he is said to have repeatedly changed his name , in order to hide his parentage , and to have fixed at last upon that by ...
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... acquired the elements of his knowledge of the law by being employed to copy precedents . LINNEUS , the founder of the science of Botany , although the son of the clergyman of a small village in Sweden , was for some time apprenticed to ...
... acquired the elements of his knowledge of the law by being employed to copy precedents . LINNEUS , the founder of the science of Botany , although the son of the clergyman of a small village in Sweden , was for some time apprenticed to ...
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Стр. 83 - 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...
Стр. 136 - Or if an unexpected call succeed, Come when it will, is equal to the need: —He who, though thus endued as with a sense And faculty for storm and turbulence, Is yet a Soul whose master-bias leans To homefelt pleasures and to gentle scenes; Sweet images! which, wheresoe'er he be, Are at his heart; and such fidelity It is his darling passion to approve; More brave for this, that he hath much to love...
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 238 - I was to continue doing a sheet a day of the folio that one night, when having imposed my forms I thought my day's work over, one of them by accident was broken and two pages reduced to pi, I immediately distributed and composed it over again before I went to bed ; and this industry, visible to our neighbors, began to give us character and credit. Particularly I was told that mention being made of the new printing-office at the merchants...
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
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