The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik]. |
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... attain that object , nobody before Galileo had thought of effecting it by means of the pendulum . And , in the same manner , with regard to the law of gravitation : the fact of all bodies having a tendency to fall to the earth must of ...
... attain that object , nobody before Galileo had thought of effecting it by means of the pendulum . And , in the same manner , with regard to the law of gravitation : the fact of all bodies having a tendency to fall to the earth must of ...
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... attained great eminence as a portrait painter ; upon which he was admitted as an associate of the Royal Academy , and was eventually elected Professor of Painting in that institution . " Born in a rank of life in which the road to ...
... attained great eminence as a portrait painter ; upon which he was admitted as an associate of the Royal Academy , and was eventually elected Professor of Painting in that institution . " Born in a rank of life in which the road to ...
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... attained the highest literary dignities in his own country , was only a simple fisherman . Young Lo- monosoff had great difficulty in acquiring as much education as enabled him to read and write ; and it was only by running away from ...
... attained the highest literary dignities in his own country , was only a simple fisherman . Young Lo- monosoff had great difficulty in acquiring as much education as enabled him to read and write ; and it was only by running away from ...
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... attained little acquaintance with the literature even of his own profession ; and it not unfrequently hap- pened indeed , we are told , that upon communicating a supposed discovery of his own to some one of his more erudite friends , he ...
... attained little acquaintance with the literature even of his own profession ; and it not unfrequently hap- pened indeed , we are told , that upon communicating a supposed discovery of his own to some one of his more erudite friends , he ...
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... attained in spite of them is only the more demonstrative of his extraordinary natural powers , and his determined perseverence . The portrait which we have given of this great man , is engraved from an original painting by Sir Joshua ...
... attained in spite of them is only the more demonstrative of his extraordinary natural powers , and his determined perseverence . The portrait which we have given of this great man , is engraved from an original painting by Sir Joshua ...
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Page 21 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore: his ponderous shield, 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.
Page 297 - This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide.
Page 71 - 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 211 - 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 287 - 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.
Page 365 - Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it : his mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
Page 208 - ... the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected them.
Page 209 - 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 212 - ... woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther. Thus...
Page 291 - 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.