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... celebrated modern invention of the balloon is said to have had an origin still more simple . Ac- cording to some authorities , the idea was first sug- gested to STEPhen MontgolfiER , one of the two brothers to whom we owe the ...
... celebrated modern invention of the balloon is said to have had an origin still more simple . Ac- cording to some authorities , the idea was first sug- gested to STEPhen MontgolfiER , one of the two brothers to whom we owe the ...
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... celebrated geometer of anti- quity , discovered the method of ascertaining the spe- cific gravities of different substances , or the compara- tive weights of equal bulks of each , he is said to have rushed forth naked from the bath in ...
... celebrated geometer of anti- quity , discovered the method of ascertaining the spe- cific gravities of different substances , or the compara- tive weights of equal bulks of each , he is said to have rushed forth naked from the bath in ...
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... celebrated French astro- nomer has expressed it , " what no mortal before that moment had seen - the surface of the moon , like another earth , ridged by high mountains , and fur- rowed by deep vallies - Venus , as well as it , present ...
... celebrated French astro- nomer has expressed it , " what no mortal before that moment had seen - the surface of the moon , like another earth , ridged by high mountains , and fur- rowed by deep vallies - Venus , as well as it , present ...
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... celebrated John Mathias Gesner . The chair had been offered , in the first in- stance , to David Ruhnken , one of the first scholars of the age , who declined , however , to leave the University of Leyden , where he had lately succeeded ...
... celebrated John Mathias Gesner . The chair had been offered , in the first in- stance , to David Ruhnken , one of the first scholars of the age , who declined , however , to leave the University of Leyden , where he had lately succeeded ...
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... celebrated Stoic philosopher , was born in the same condition , and spent many years of his life in servitude . Having been at last fortunate enough to obtain his freedom , he retired to a small hut ; and when he was barely able to ...
... celebrated Stoic philosopher , was born in the same condition , and spent many years of his life in servitude . Having been at last fortunate enough to obtain his freedom , he retired to a small hut ; and when he was barely able to ...
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Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.