The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes ...C. Knight, 1830 |
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... minds . We are not now speaking of such lucky discoveries as mere chance has sometimes suggested , even to the most inattentive understandings . How far we are indebted to this source for many of those ordinary arts , the origin of ...
... minds . We are not now speaking of such lucky discoveries as mere chance has sometimes suggested , even to the most inattentive understandings . How far we are indebted to this source for many of those ordinary arts , the origin of ...
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... mind extracts new and important truths , simply by its new manner of looking at them , and , as it were , by the aid of a light of its own which it sheds upon their worn and obliterated lineaments . From one of these simple incidents ...
... mind extracts new and important truths , simply by its new manner of looking at them , and , as it were , by the aid of a light of its own which it sheds upon their worn and obliterated lineaments . From one of these simple incidents ...
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... mind of Newton . The same power , he said to himself , which has drawn this apple from its branch , would have drawn it from a po- sition a thousand times as high . Wherever we go , we find this gravitation reigning over all things . If ...
... mind of Newton . The same power , he said to himself , which has drawn this apple from its branch , would have drawn it from a po- sition a thousand times as high . Wherever we go , we find this gravitation reigning over all things . If ...
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... mind . In the computations which he undertook for the purpose of this investigation , he naturally adopted the common estimate of the magnitude of the earth , which was at that time in use among our geographers and seamen . Indeed , no ...
... mind . In the computations which he undertook for the purpose of this investigation , he naturally adopted the common estimate of the magnitude of the earth , which was at that time in use among our geographers and seamen . Indeed , no ...
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... mind , even for years . We need hardly state how gloriously this sacrifice was in due time rewarded . Had Newton , instead of acting as he did , obsti- nately persevered in the partially erroneous path into which he had thus been misled ...
... mind , even for years . We need hardly state how gloriously this sacrifice was in due time rewarded . Had Newton , instead of acting as he did , obsti- nately persevered in the partially erroneous path into which he had thus been misled ...
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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.