The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].Wells and Lilly, 1830 - Всего страниц: 3 |
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... principal seminary of his native town of Chemnitz . His new patron , however , although a well - endowed churchman , doled out his bounty with most scrupu- lous parsimony ; and Heyne , without the necessary books of his own , was often ...
... principal seminary of his native town of Chemnitz . His new patron , however , although a well - endowed churchman , doled out his bounty with most scrupu- lous parsimony ; and Heyne , without the necessary books of his own , was often ...
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... principal profession that of a schoolmaster : so that , his gains being now considerable , he looked upon himself as in the secure high road to prosperity , and accordingly took to himself a wife in the person of his landlady , the ...
... principal profession that of a schoolmaster : so that , his gains being now considerable , he looked upon himself as in the secure high road to prosperity , and accordingly took to himself a wife in the person of his landlady , the ...
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... principal source of information was the Ladies ' Diary , ' of which he was a regu- lar and attentive reader . It was in this publication that he first read of that branch of mathematical learning called Fluxions , or the Differential ...
... principal source of information was the Ladies ' Diary , ' of which he was a regu- lar and attentive reader . It was in this publication that he first read of that branch of mathematical learning called Fluxions , or the Differential ...
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... principal works have been characterized as abounding in errors , He seems , upon the whole , to have had rather a quick and active , than either a very profound or a very acute understanding ; and some of his speculations are sin ...
... principal works have been characterized as abounding in errors , He seems , upon the whole , to have had rather a quick and active , than either a very profound or a very acute understanding ; and some of his speculations are sin ...
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... principal of the United College in the University of St. An- drews , and a gentleman of distinguished erudition and talent . Struck with the remarkable abilities and acquirements of young Stone , he proposed his removal to the ...
... principal of the United College in the University of St. An- drews , and a gentleman of distinguished erudition and talent . Struck with the remarkable abilities and acquirements of young Stone , he proposed his removal to the ...
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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.