The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].Wells and Lilly, 1830 - 3 ページ |
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... passing through a succession of other fortunes , which we cannot afford space to relate , he was induced by the solicitations of La Rovère , Bishop of Agen , to ac- company that prelate to his episcopal seat , and thus at last to ...
... passing through a succession of other fortunes , which we cannot afford space to relate , he was induced by the solicitations of La Rovère , Bishop of Agen , to ac- company that prelate to his episcopal seat , and thus at last to ...
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... passed the earlier years of his life in such obscurity and poverty , that he was obliged to spend the greater part of his time in merely painting the coarse ornaments on the prows of ships , was so far from shewing himself ashamed of ...
... passed the earlier years of his life in such obscurity and poverty , that he was obliged to spend the greater part of his time in merely painting the coarse ornaments on the prows of ships , was so far from shewing himself ashamed of ...
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... passed at least the twentieth year of his age , to improve his acquaintance with books ; and even after he had regained his throne , and re - esta- blished his country in peace and independence , he had nearly as many impediments to ...
... passed at least the twentieth year of his age , to improve his acquaintance with books ; and even after he had regained his throne , and re - esta- blished his country in peace and independence , he had nearly as many impediments to ...
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... passing his latter days in com- fortable circumstances , when he died in 1798 , at the age of sixty - two . We shall at present mention only another example . JOHN OGILBY , the well known translator of Homer , was originally a dancing ...
... passing his latter days in com- fortable circumstances , when he died in 1798 , at the age of sixty - two . We shall at present mention only another example . JOHN OGILBY , the well known translator of Homer , was originally a dancing ...
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... passed the last eight years of his life , as is well known , in almost uninterrupted abstinence from his wonted intellectual pursuits . Under the influ- ence of certain religious views , operating upon a delicate and excitable ...
... passed the last eight years of his life , as is well known , in almost uninterrupted abstinence from his wonted intellectual pursuits . Under the influ- ence of certain religious views , operating upon a delicate and excitable ...
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305 ページ - 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...
136 ページ - 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...
307 ページ - 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.
227 ページ - 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.
23 ページ - 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.
225 ページ - 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.
83 ページ - ... 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...
224 ページ - ... 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.
223 ページ - 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.
228 ページ - 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.