The Juvenile Plutarch:: Containing Accounts of the Lives of Celebrated Children, and of the Infancy of Persons who Have Been Illustrious for Their Virtues Or Talents. With Plates..Tabart and Company at the Juvenile Library, 157, New Bond Street., 1806 - 204 oldal |
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16. oldal
... discover- ing " his name growing in the garden " the child was astonished , and on be- ing told it might be accidental , he de- nied that such a circumstance could be the effect of chance . On this the doctor , alluding to his own ...
... discover- ing " his name growing in the garden " the child was astonished , and on be- ing told it might be accidental , he de- nied that such a circumstance could be the effect of chance . On this the doctor , alluding to his own ...
38. oldal
... discover forgeries and surreptitious copies , and to the trans- acting of all business of writing , as with ease and speed , so with privacy also . " It appears that this useful instrument of his had been made some years be- fore , and ...
... discover forgeries and surreptitious copies , and to the trans- acting of all business of writing , as with ease and speed , so with privacy also . " It appears that this useful instrument of his had been made some years be- fore , and ...
49. oldal
... discover- ing a north - east passage to the south seas . But while he was thus employed the rebellion broke out in Scotland , in fa- vour of the Pretender ; and as Mr. Mac- laurin had exerted himself in defence of the king and religion ...
... discover- ing a north - east passage to the south seas . But while he was thus employed the rebellion broke out in Scotland , in fa- vour of the Pretender ; and as Mr. Mac- laurin had exerted himself in defence of the king and religion ...
59. oldal
... discover nothing but what is trivial , humble , and circum- scribed . I am but a tyrunculus , or a mere novice just advanced one step from the darkness of ignorance , and not farther . It would be sufficiently kind in you to place me in ...
... discover nothing but what is trivial , humble , and circum- scribed . I am but a tyrunculus , or a mere novice just advanced one step from the darkness of ignorance , and not farther . It would be sufficiently kind in you to place me in ...
113. oldal
... discover what he was about . His master had some iron basons , in which he used to grind , with toler- able exactness , optic glasses of six feet focus , and young Hartsocker soon caught the method of performing the operation as well as ...
... discover what he was about . His master had some iron basons , in which he used to grind , with toler- able exactness , optic glasses of six feet focus , and young Hartsocker soon caught the method of performing the operation as well as ...
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
able acquaintance acquired admiration afterwards amuse appear astonished astronomy attained attention Baynard Binfield born Captain celebrated character child composition considerable Countess of Mar delight discover discoveries disposition Earl of Sussex early elegant eminent engaged Euclid's Elements excellence Fabius father formed friends Gainsborough genius gentleman Greek Greek languages guage Hanham Hartsocker holy orders HORATIO NELSON illustrious improvement ingenious instructions judgment juvenile kind King knowledge languages Latin Latin languages learning letter Majesty manner master mathematics ment mind Mirandula nature observed parents period person philosophy Picus Piero de Medici piety placed pleased poem poet Politian Pope powers praise Prince professor pursuits racter Royal says scholars sent ship Sir Isaac SIR WILLIAM PETTY soon spirit studies subjects talents tance taught ther THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH tion took tures uncommon University of Florence verse virtue worthy writing wrote young youth
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193. oldal - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
196. oldal - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
190. oldal - I had my time, readers, as others have who have good learning bestowed upon them, to be sent to those places where the opinion was it might be soonest attained, and as the manner is was not unstudied in those authors which are most commended: whereof some were grave orators and historians, whose matter methought I loved indeed, but as my age then was, so I understood them...
159. oldal - Who does not wish that Dryden could have known the value of the homage that was paid him, and foreseen the greatness of his young admirer ? The earliest of Pope's productions is his " Ode
185. oldal - Miserable they! Who, here entangled in the gathering ice, Take their last look of the descending sun; While, full of death, and fierce with tenfold frost, The long long night, incumbent o'er their heads, Falls horrible.
142. oldal - Whence then comes wisdom? And where is the place of understanding? It is hid from the eyes of all living, and concealed from the birds of the air. Abaddon and Death say, 'We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.
185. oldal - Who, here entangled in the gathering ice, Take their last look of the descending sun ; While, full of death, and fierce with tenfold frost, The long long night, incumbent o'er their heads, Falls horrible. Such was the Briton's fate...
185. oldal - He for the passage sought, attempted since So much in vain, and seeming to be shut By jealous Nature with eternal bars. In these fell regions, in Arzina caught, And to the stony deep his idle ship Immediate seal'd, he with his hapless crew, Each full exerted at his several task, Froze into statues; to the cordage glued The sailor, and the pilot to the helm.
19. oldal - I had now gained the point I aimed at : and saw, that his reason taught him (though he could not so express it) that what begins to be must have a cause, and that what is formed with regularity must have an intelligent cause. I therefore told him the name of the Great Being who made him and all the world ; concerning whose adorable nature I gave him such information as I thought he could in some measure comprehend. The lesson affected him greatly, and he never forgot either it, or the circumstance...
37. oldal - It is an instrument of small bulk and price, easily made, and very durable, whereby any man, even at the first sight and handling, may write two resembling copies of the same thing at once, as serviceably and as fast (allowing two lines upon each page on setting the instruments) as by the ordinary way; of what nature, or in what character, or what matter soever, as paper, parchment, a book, be. the said writing ought to be made upon.