The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].Wells and Lilly, 1830 - Всего страниц: 3 |
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... written many years after - his treatise on a universal language - Leibnitz himself describes to us what he calls the infantine joy which this idea brought with it , when it first suggested itself to him , filling his mind , as it did ...
... written many years after - his treatise on a universal language - Leibnitz himself describes to us what he calls the infantine joy which this idea brought with it , when it first suggested itself to him , filling his mind , as it did ...
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... written having attracted the attention of one of the Saxon ministers , he was induced , by the advice of his friends , to set out for the court at Dresden , where it was expected this high patronage would make his for- tune ; but he was ...
... written having attracted the attention of one of the Saxon ministers , he was induced , by the advice of his friends , to set out for the court at Dresden , where it was expected this high patronage would make his for- tune ; but he was ...
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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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... writing ; while an attempt that was made to give him some knowledge of Latin , ( accord ing to the plan of education then almost universally followed in regard to the sons of even the smallest landed proprietors in Scotland , ) was ...
... writing ; while an attempt that was made to give him some knowledge of Latin , ( accord ing to the plan of education then almost universally followed in regard to the sons of even the smallest landed proprietors in Scotland , ) was ...
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... writing , -comparing the process to the taking of stock by a tradesman , -without which he cannot know with certainty ... written a life of John Hunter , that he always used to swallow thirty drops of lauda- num before going to lecture ...
... writing , -comparing the process to the taking of stock by a tradesman , -without which he cannot know with certainty ... written a life of John Hunter , that he always used to swallow thirty drops of lauda- num before going to lecture ...
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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.