The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].Wells and Lilly, 1830 - Всего страниц: 3 |
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... immediately the truth of his conjecture by careful and repeated experiment ; and the result was the complete discovery of the principle of the most perfect measure of time which we yet possess . How striking a lesson is this for us when ...
... immediately the truth of his conjecture by careful and repeated experiment ; and the result was the complete discovery of the principle of the most perfect measure of time which we yet possess . How striking a lesson is this for us when ...
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... immediately to endeavour to account for the unexpected phenomenon ; and , after examining the case , came to the conclusion , that nature cer- tainly abhorred a vacuum , but for the first two - and- thirty feet only ! It was his pupil ...
... immediately to endeavour to account for the unexpected phenomenon ; and , after examining the case , came to the conclusion , that nature cer- tainly abhorred a vacuum , but for the first two - and- thirty feet only ! It was his pupil ...
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... immediately conceived the idea that it would be practicable to find a way of covering a plate of copper in the same manner with little holes , which , being inked and laid upon paper , would un- doubtedly produce a black impression ...
... immediately conceived the idea that it would be practicable to find a way of covering a plate of copper in the same manner with little holes , which , being inked and laid upon paper , would un- doubtedly produce a black impression ...
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... immediately perceiving that , as the water was equal to the bulk of his body , this would furnish him with the means of detecting the adulteration , by trying how much water a certain weight 20 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
... immediately perceiving that , as the water was equal to the bulk of his body , this would furnish him with the means of detecting the adulteration , by trying how much water a certain weight 20 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
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... immediately set himself to work to find out by what means the thing must have been effected ; and in the course of a few hours satisfied himself that , by a certain ar rangement of spherical glasses , he could repeat the new miracle ...
... immediately set himself to work to find out by what means the thing must have been effected ; and in the course of a few hours satisfied himself that , by a certain ar rangement of spherical glasses , he could repeat the new miracle ...
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Стр. 305 - 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...
Стр. 136 - 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...
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.
Стр. 227 - 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.
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. 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. 83 - ... to be an interpreter and relater of the best and sagest things among mine own citizens throughout this island in the mother dialect, 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. 224 - ... and a glass of water, had the rest of the » time till their return for study, in which I made the greater progress, from that greater clearness of head and quicker apprehension which usually attend temperance in eating and drinking.
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. 228 - I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water; and, being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther.