The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].Wells and Lilly, 1830 - Всего страниц: 3 |
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... writers state that mezzotinto scraping was the inven- tion of Lieut . - Col . de Siegen ; that he thus engraved the portrait of the Landgravine of Hesse , in 1643 ; and that Prince Rupert learnt the art of him , and carried it into ...
... writers state that mezzotinto scraping was the inven- tion of Lieut . - Col . de Siegen ; that he thus engraved the portrait of the Landgravine of Hesse , in 1643 ; and that Prince Rupert learnt the art of him , and carried it into ...
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... writer was one of the works edited by Heyne , while at Dresden ; and he used to relate that his fortitude , amid the difficulties that he had to struggle with at the time , was not a little strengthened and upheld by the precepts of ...
... writer was one of the works edited by Heyne , while at Dresden ; and he used to relate that his fortitude , amid the difficulties that he had to struggle with at the time , was not a little strengthened and upheld by the precepts of ...
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... writers on classic antiquities and the fine arts that modern times have produced , was the son of a shoemaker . His father , after vainly endeavouring for some time , at the expense of many sacrifices , to give him a learned education ...
... writers on classic antiquities and the fine arts that modern times have produced , was the son of a shoemaker . His father , after vainly endeavouring for some time , at the expense of many sacrifices , to give him a learned education ...
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... writing , and not finding his hut so com- fortable as he could have wished , left with him a sum of money to rebuild it . Men are proud , and it is very intelligible why they should be so , of an illustrious ancestry ; but to those who ...
... writing , and not finding his hut so com- fortable as he could have wished , left with him a sum of money to rebuild it . Men are proud , and it is very intelligible why they should be so , of an illustrious ancestry ; but to those who ...
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... writer GELLI , who , even after he had obtained so much distinction by his writings as to have been elected to the high dig- nity of consul of the Florentine Academy , and ap- pointed by the grand duke to deliver a course of 40 THE ...
... writer GELLI , who , even after he had obtained so much distinction by his writings as to have been elected to the high dig- nity of consul of the Florentine Academy , and ap- pointed by the grand duke to deliver a course of 40 THE ...
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Стр. 219 - I had gone on making verses ; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind and make me master of it.