The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes ...C. Knight, 1830 |
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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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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.