The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes ...C. Knight, 1830 |
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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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... 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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... writers and intrepid thinkers of the sixteenth century , was employed in his childhood as a shepherd , and ob- tained his education by serving as a lacquey in the College of Navarre . The Danish astronomer , Lon- GOMONTANUS , was the ...
... writers and intrepid thinkers of the sixteenth century , was employed in his childhood as a shepherd , and ob- tained his education by serving as a lacquey in the College of Navarre . The Danish astronomer , Lon- GOMONTANUS , was the ...
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Стр. 303 - This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide.
Стр. 386 - The collection of Songs was my vade mecum. I pored over them, driving my cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse ; carefully noting the true tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic craft, such as it is.
Стр. 83 - 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. 23 - Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, 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. 223 - 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. 301 - 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: But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Стр. 257 - Nollet, preceptor in Natural Philosophy to the royal family, and an able experimenter, who had formed and published a theory of electricity, which then had the general vogue. He could not at first believe that such a work came from America, and said it must have been fabricated by his enemies at Paris, to decry his system. Afterwards, having been assured that there really existed such a person as Franklin at Philadelphia, which he had doubted, he wrote and published a volume of Letters...
Стр. 221 - 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. 383 - ... who, as he was a happie imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it. His mind and hand went together; and what he thought, he uttered with that easinesse that wee have scarse received from him a blot in his papers.
Стр. 224 - Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.