The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes ...C. Knight, 1830 |
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... body of examples , to shew how the most unpro- pitious circumstances have been unable to conquer an ardent desire for the acquisition of knowledge . Every man has difficulties to encounter in this pur- suit ; and therefore every man is ...
... body of examples , to shew how the most unpro- pitious circumstances have been unable to conquer an ardent desire for the acquisition of knowledge . Every man has difficulties to encounter in this pur- suit ; and therefore every man is ...
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... bodies in the immediate vicinity of our planet ; and the great Galileo had even ascertained the law , or rate ... body upon which it operated . This result he had already anticipated from the consi- deration that , although we ...
... bodies in the immediate vicinity of our planet ; and the great Galileo had even ascertained the law , or rate ... body upon which it operated . This result he had already anticipated from the consi- deration that , although we ...
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... bodies , which was already known to affect at least every body in the immediate neighbourhood of the earth . But these things are only simple after they are explained . Slight and transparent as we may think the veil to have been which ...
... bodies , which was already known to affect at least every body in the immediate neighbourhood of the earth . But these things are only simple after they are explained . Slight and transparent as we may think the veil to have been which ...
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... bodies ; but as the principle , when affecting bodies in the neighbour- hood of the earth , was that of a force ... body , nobody for two thousand years found out the true reason why , on its removal from the barrel of the pump by ...
... bodies ; but as the principle , when affecting bodies in the neighbour- hood of the earth , was that of a force ... body , nobody for two thousand years found out the true reason why , on its removal from the barrel of the pump by ...
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... body . Let us not , however , deride with too much levity these errors and follies of the old interpreters of nature . We ourselves are only yet casting off the yoke of that ignorance in the guise of wisdom , under which the men of ...
... body . Let us not , however , deride with too much levity these errors and follies of the old interpreters of nature . We ourselves are only yet casting off the yoke of that ignorance in the guise of wisdom , under which the men of ...
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303 ページ - This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide.
386 ページ - The collection of Songs was my vade mecum. I pored over them, driving my cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse ; carefully noting the true tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic craft, such as it is.
83 ページ - 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...
23 ページ - 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.
223 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.
301 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: 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.
257 ページ - Nollet, preceptor in Natural Philosophy to the royal family, and an able experimenter, who had formed and published a theory of electricity, which then had the general vogue. He could not at first believe that such a work came from America, and said it must have been fabricated by his enemies at Paris, to decry his system. Afterwards, having been assured that there really existed such a person as Franklin at Philadelphia, which he had doubted, he wrote and published a volume of Letters...
221 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.
383 ページ - ... who, as he was a happie imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it. His mind and hand went together; and what he thought, he uttered with that easinesse that wee have scarse received from him a blot in his papers.
224 ページ - Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.