The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].C. Knight, 1834 |
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... probably meaning by that allusion , not only to express his modest conviction how mere an outskirt the field of his discoveries was , compared with the vastness of universal nature , but to describe likewise the spirit in which he had ...
... probably meaning by that allusion , not only to express his modest conviction how mere an outskirt the field of his discoveries was , compared with the vastness of universal nature , but to describe likewise the spirit in which he had ...
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... probably be not unfrequently the first to contrive and spread the fiction ; preferring , as he would in all likelihood do , the credit of being the chosen transmitter of super- natural communications to his fellow - mortals , to that of ...
... probably be not unfrequently the first to contrive and spread the fiction ; preferring , as he would in all likelihood do , the credit of being the chosen transmitter of super- natural communications to his fellow - mortals , to that of ...
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... probably , have been reserved for another than Newton . Committed to the maintenance of his adopted errors , and with his mental vision even unfitted in some measure for the perception of the truth , he might in that case have been the ...
... probably , have been reserved for another than Newton . Committed to the maintenance of his adopted errors , and with his mental vision even unfitted in some measure for the perception of the truth , he might in that case have been the ...
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... probably might have been , for life , the employment of the genius that afterwards distinguished itself so greatly in one of the most important walks of philosophic discovery , but for circumstances which , at the time when they 46 THE ...
... probably might have been , for life , the employment of the genius that afterwards distinguished itself so greatly in one of the most important walks of philosophic discovery , but for circumstances which , at the time when they 46 THE ...
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... probably , even before this time , awakened something of ambition in the other , with a wish to escape from the obscure fortune to which he seemed destined . John now wrote to his brother , offering him his services as an assistant in ...
... probably , even before this time , awakened something of ambition in the other , with a wish to escape from the obscure fortune to which he seemed destined . John now wrote to his brother , offering him his services as an assistant in ...
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Стр. 136 - Whose powers shed round him in the common strife, 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...
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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...
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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...
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