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... means of education were of course limited ; but it is known that , at an early age , he had made some progress in the study of mathe- matics and the Latin language . While a youth , he was very fond of reading all works upon geography ...
... means of education were of course limited ; but it is known that , at an early age , he had made some progress in the study of mathe- matics and the Latin language . While a youth , he was very fond of reading all works upon geography ...
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William Chambers. him with a vessel or vessels , and all other requisite means for making good the discovery . It would be very painful to recite minutely the steps he took on this occasion . He applied first to the Portuguese mon- arch ...
William Chambers. him with a vessel or vessels , and all other requisite means for making good the discovery . It would be very painful to recite minutely the steps he took on this occasion . He applied first to the Portuguese mon- arch ...
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... means to remain in the country . He had been father confessor to the queen , and thought he might still exercise an influence over her mind . He accordingly proceeded to Santa Fé , where the sove- reigns were in person superintending ...
... means to remain in the country . He had been father confessor to the queen , and thought he might still exercise an influence over her mind . He accordingly proceeded to Santa Fé , where the sove- reigns were in person superintending ...
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... and removed to Strasburg about the year 1424. Unfortunately for Gutenberg , he was poor , and unable , by his own efforts , to render his discovery practically beneficial . By this means he was led 30 GUTENBERG . GUTENBERG-CAXTON. ...
... and removed to Strasburg about the year 1424. Unfortunately for Gutenberg , he was poor , and unable , by his own efforts , to render his discovery practically beneficial . By this means he was led 30 GUTENBERG . GUTENBERG-CAXTON. ...
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... means , he opened his mind to a wealthy goldsmith and worker in precious metals , named John Fust or Faust , and prevailed on him to advance large sums of money , in order to make further and more complete trials of the art . Gutenberg ...
... means , he opened his mind to a wealthy goldsmith and worker in precious metals , named John Fust or Faust , and prevailed on him to advance large sums of money , in order to make further and more complete trials of the art . Gutenberg ...
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Page 231 - Thackeray, one of his masters, was wont to say of him, that he was a boy of so active a mind, that if he were left naked and friendless on Salisbury Plain, he would, nevertheless, find the road to fame and riches.
Page 94 - I was in my working dress, my best clothes being to come round by sea. I was dirty from my journey ; my pockets were stuffed out with shirts and stockings, and I knew no soul, nor where to look for lodging. I...
Page 291 - He helped in the building of the new structure of Lincoln's Inn, when, having a trowel in his hand, he had a book in his pocket.
Page 87 - I devoted to them. I found besides a work of De Foe's, entitled ' An Essay on Projects,' from which, perhaps, I derived impressions that have since influenced some of the principal events of my life.
Page 150 - About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity ; and with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have words to express, set out for New York with the best disposition to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less hope of answering its expectations.
Page 185 - He was impatient of whatever interfered with his favourite pursuits ; and the fact is too strikingly characteristic not to be mentioned, that he separated from his wife not many years after their marriage, because she, convinced that he would starve his family by scheming when he should have been shaving, broke some of his experimental models of machinery.
Page 116 - My original habits of frugality continuing, and my father having, among his instructions to me when a boy, frequently repeated a proverb of Solomon, " Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Page 90 - ... 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. Therefore I took some of the tales in the Spectator...
Page 151 - a complete and generous education, which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war.
Page 50 - ... so certainly if a man meditate much upon the universal frame of nature, the earth with men upon it (the divineness of souls except) will not seem much other than an ant-hill, whereas some ants carry corn, and some carry their young, and some go empty, and all to and fro a little heap of dust.