The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik]. Continuation |
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... enabled to print the following extract from his " Passages of a Working Life " ( vol . ii . , p . 133 ) , giving a detailed account of the origin of this volume : — It was not only in the meetings of our committees that I had the ...
... enabled to print the following extract from his " Passages of a Working Life " ( vol . ii . , p . 133 ) , giving a detailed account of the origin of this volume : — It was not only in the meetings of our committees that I had the ...
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... enabled to verify all , and more than all , that he had originally suspected . No other speculator had yet followed him in the same path of conjecture ; when , a few years after , upon obtaining more correct data , he repeated his ...
... enabled to verify all , and more than all , that he had originally suspected . No other speculator had yet followed him in the same path of conjecture ; when , a few years after , upon obtaining more correct data , he repeated his ...
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... enabled him to read and write ; and it was only by running away from his father's house , and taking refuge in a monastery at Moscow , that he found means to obtain an acquaintance with the higher branches of literature . The famous BEN ...
... enabled him to read and write ; and it was only by running away from his father's house , and taking refuge in a monastery at Moscow , that he found means to obtain an acquaintance with the higher branches of literature . The famous BEN ...
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... enabled to become a student at the College of Navarre , in the University of Paris , by hiring himself at the same time as a valet . When he had spent his day , one of his biographers tells us , in attendance on his master , follow- ing ...
... enabled to become a student at the College of Navarre , in the University of Paris , by hiring himself at the same time as a valet . When he had spent his day , one of his biographers tells us , in attendance on his master , follow- ing ...
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... enabled to devote themselves entirely to its acquisition from their youth upwards . We shall have occasion to show this still more strikingly , when we come to trace the history of some of those powerful minds , whose very Application ...
... enabled to devote themselves entirely to its acquisition from their youth upwards . We shall have occasion to show this still more strikingly , when we come to trace the history of some of those powerful minds , whose very Application ...
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