The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].Wells and Lilly, 1830 - Всего страниц: 3 |
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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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